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Title - Tell It To Me: The Johnson City Sessions Revisted
Artist - Various

Released in August 2019 in conjunction with the 90th Anniversary celebration of the Johnson City sessions, Tell It To Me: Revisiting the Johnson City Sessions 1928-1929 is intended to demonstrate what music historian Ed Ward meant when he tweeted "Johnson City Sessions: Lots more fun than the Bristol Sessions. Fewer stars, more insight into a vanished world."

Intended to distill onto a single CD the groundbreaking research found on Bear Family Records' award-winning 4-CD boxed set, The Johnson City Sessions: Can You Sing or Play Old-Time Music?' (BCD 16083, released in 2013), Tell It To Me offers 25 essential highlights from Columbia Records' historically significant location recording sessions in Johnson City, Tennessee, in 1928 and 1929.

1. 'Tell It To Me' (Grant Brothers & Their Music)
2. 'Home Town Blues' (Roane County Ramblers)
3. 'Johnson City Blues' (Clarence Greene)
4. 'Louise' (Proximity String Quartet)
5. 'The Battleship Maine' (Richard Harold)
6. 'Roll On Buddy' (Charlie Bowman & His Brothers)
7. 'Old Lady And The Devil' (Bill & Belle Reed)
8. 'I'll Be Ready When The Bridegroom Comes' (McVay & Johnson)
9. 'When The Roses Bloom for the Bootlegger' (Earl Shirkey & Roy Harper)
10. 'I Ain't A Bit Drunk' (George Roark)
11. 'Just Over The River' (Garland Brothers & Grinstead)
12. 'Green Valley Waltz' (McCartt Brothers & Patterson)
13. 'Pride Of The Ball' (Blalock & Yates)
14. 'When We Go A-Courtin'' (George Wade & Francum Braswell)
15. 'I'm Just A Black Sheep' (Jack Jackson)
16. 'Evalina' (Wyatt & Brandon)
17. 'Just Pickin'' (Roy Harvey & Leonard Copeland)
18. 'God Will Take Care Of You' (The Spindale Quartet)
19. 'Moatsville Blues' (Moatsville String Ticklers)
20. 'Three Men Went A-Hunting' (Byrd Moore & His Hot Shots)
21. 'The Coo-Coo Bird' (Clarence Ashley)
22. 'Down On Penny's Farm' (The Bentley Boys)
23. 'Old Lonesome Blues' (Bowman Sisters)
24. 'The Last Gold Dollar' (Ephraim Woodie & The Henpecked Husbands)
25. 'Powder And Paint' (Ira & Eugene Yates)
26. 'Buttermilk Blues' (Ellis Williams)

Listening to the incredible, and still just so vibrantly imbued 26 recordings on this excellent compilation (which also comes with an impressive, and highly informative 40-page booklet and features a new essay in which Grammy Award-nominated liner notes writer Ted Olson describes the Johnson City sessions, sets them into historical context, and assesses their lasting historical impact), it's no wonder that you instantly become enthralled by the music.

Inclusive of some of the most iconic and influential recordings from the 1920s, the compilation includes works from Clarence Ashley's original recording of 'The Coo-Coo Bird,' Charlie Bowman's 'Roll On, Buddy,' Byrd Moore and His Hot Shots' 'Three Men Went A Hunting,' Bill and Belle Reed's 'Old Lady And The Devil,' and the Bentley Boys' 'Down On Penny's Farm.'

Because Tell It To Me showcases the usual state-of-the-art sound engineering generally associated with releases from Bear Family, these nine-decade-old recordings sound warm and clear - indeed, just as if they were made yesterday.

From the very off, with Grant Brothers & Their Music bringing us the foot-tappin' title track 'Tell It To Me,' you know what you are in for and so can settle back into your favorite comfy chair, close your eyes and allow the sounds to lovingly transport you back.

Presenting a diverse and dynamic overview of Appalachia's vernacular music at the cusp of the Great Depression this wondrous compilation also represents a range of genres and styles, seamlessly showcasing both secular and sacred material.

Thematically unified by the fact that all of the tracks hail from commercial location recording sessions held by Columbia Records in Johnson City, Tennessee, it's truly something know that recent assertions by discerning aficionados of 78 RPM records have confirmed that those sessions generated a particularly memorable canon of historical recordings.

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