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Flowers In The Wildwood - Women In Early Country Music 1923-1939 |
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The songs on this CD date from the period before World War 2, when women in the American South started to claim country music for themselves. On these rare recordings you hear the female pioneers of the genre, who were establishing themselves in a man's world.
They were "flowers in the wildwood." These are womens voices, full of the sweetness of love itself and also the twang and cackle of dust storms, thunder and lightning, the burning sun. These are sisters, daughters, mothers, wicked witches, innocent maids, Jezebels. They sing of hope and fear, of lovers adored and hated, of happiness lost and found. These songs make your heart swell and crack and with each crack you rise just a little closer to heaven. |
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Track Listing
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Wish I Was A Single Girl Again - Lulu Belle & Scotty
Single Life - Roba Stanley
I Left Her Standing There - Dezurik Sisters
Flowers Blooming In The Wildwood - Coon Creek Girls
She Came Rollin' Down The Mountain - The Aaron Sisters
Just Another Broken Heart - The Carter Family
Round-Up Time In Texas - Girls Of The Golden West
We Are Climbing - Chuck Wagon Gang
My Man's A Jolly Railroad Man - Moonshine Kate
My Poncho Pony - Patsy Montana
Lorena - Joe & Alma (The Kentucky Girls)
All The Good Times Are Past And Gone - Fred & Gertrude Gossett
Round Town Girls - Wanda & Ruth Neal
Home-Coming Week - The Leatherman Sisters
Will You Think Of Me? - Grady & Hazel Cole
On The Banks Of The Old Tennessee - Mr. And Mrs. J.W. Baker
Kentucky Miner's Wife (Ragged Hungry Blues) Part 1 - Aunt Molly Jackson
Go To Sleep My Darling - Dezurik Sisters
Walking In The King's Highway - The Carter Family
My Loved Ones Are Waiting For Me - Southlands Ladies Quartette
Little Birdie - Coon Creek Girls
Big-Eyed Rabbit - Samantha Bumgarner & Eva Davis
How'm I Doin'? - The Aaron Sisters With The Song-O-Pators
Prayer - Wisdom Sisters
With My Banjo On My Knee Blues - Louisiana Lou |
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Wish I Was A Single Girl Again - Lulu Belle & Scotty
Single Life - Roba Stanley
I Left Her Standing There - Dezurik Sisters
Flowers Blooming In The Wildwood - Coon Creek Girls
She Came Rollin' Down The Mountain - The Aaron Sisters
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I knew four of these women who made these songs. I'll just make you guess which four women! Two were sisters from North Carolina. I'll just tell you this ... a lot of the stuff that women had to go through back then would be considered a crime today! How we survived it, well, some of us didn't. The rest of us made our own way. And I love this album. And I loved these women. I don't want to receive any credit. I was just proud to have known these women, to have sang and played with them, and I'm proud that they have some acknowledgement now! They deserve it! These girls deserve to be recognized!
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My grandmother was Lillian Leatherman.
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TRI - Trikont |
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310 |
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Lulu Belle & Scotty
Roba Stanley
Dezurik Sisters
Coon Creek Girls
Aaron Sisters
Carter Family
Girls Of The Golden West
Chuck Wagon Gang
Moonshine Kate
Patsy Montana
Joe & Alma (The Kentucky Girls)
Fred & Gertrude Gossett
Wanda & Ruth Neal
Leatherman Sisters
Grady & Hazel Cole
Mr. And Mrs. J.W. Baker
Aunt Molly Jackson
Southlands Ladies Quartette
Song-O-Pators
Wisdom Sisters
Louisiana Lou |
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