Music and Agriculture in the Piedmont Region

Bessie Smith – Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair (Columbia – 14209-D 1927) [Cornet: Joe Smith / Piano: Fletcher Henderson / Trombone: Charlie Green] ** Bertha ‘Chippie’ Hill – Georgia Man / Trouble in Mind (Recorded on February 23, 1926 in Chicago, IL. Okeh – 8312) [Piano: Richard M. Jones / Trumpet: Louis Armstrong] ** Blind Willie McTell – Dyin’ Crapshooters Blues (Atlanta 12 String, recorded in Atlanta 1949, released as Atlantic – SD 7224 in 1972) ** Pink Anderson – Chicken (Medicine Show Man, Prestige Bluesville – BV 1051 1962) ** Perry Bechtel – Now Is the Hour (The Banjo Style of Perry Bechtel, RCA Camden – CAS 871(e) 1965) ** Blair Crimmins Live at Hoopoe Acres – After You’ve Gone / Mean Mean Man / Little Red Train / Sell Something ** Farm Report ** Blair Crimmins – Story / Old Man Cabbage / I Love You That’s All / It’s All Over Now ** Johnny Mercer and Richard Leonard - An Evening with Johnny Mercer (92nd St Y March 1971 for Lyrics and Lyricists Series) ** Abner Jay – Beautiful Dreamer (Live from Stephen Foster Center, Brandie Records – B 12842 1977) ** Joe Thompson and the Carolina Chocolate Drops – I Shall Not Be Moved (Carolina Chocolate Drops and Joe Thompson Music Maker Recordings – MMCD 101) Recorded live April 25, 2008 at Merlefest in Wilkesboro, North Carolina