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	<description>The TweedBlog: musings, ramblings, and miscellany about bluegrass, jazz, folk, and Americana music. Courtesy of Tangleweed, the five-piece Chicago-based Acoustic Americana group.</description>
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		<title>Jimmie Rodgers singing Sleep Baby Sleep</title>
		<link>http://www.tangleweed.org/blog/2009/05/03/jimmie-rodgers-singing-sleep-baby-sleep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 16:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Rainey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the track that launched a career, and a career that helped launch an industry. It was recorded in Bristol, Tennessee, on August 4, 1927 for the Victor label. Though it was only a modest success, it marked the beginning of one of the most illustrious recording careers in American popular music.
Rodgers actually recorded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiddlin&#8217; Frank Nelson playing And the Cat Came Back</title>
		<link>http://www.tangleweed.org/blog/2009/04/27/fiddlin-frank-nelson-playing-and-the-cat-came-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Rainey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I listened to this expecting to hear the song Riley Puckett sang so well, and was surprised to hear this very nice fiddle instrumental instead. Surprised, especially, in that I had never heard of Fiddlin&#8217; Frank Nelson.
A quick check of Tony Russell&#8217;s Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942 the Rosetta Stone for prewar country music, solved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiddlin&#8217; Powers playing Cluck Old Hen</title>
		<link>http://www.tangleweed.org/blog/2009/04/26/fiddlin-powers-playing-cluck-old-hen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Rainey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fiddlin&#8217; Powers was a John Cowan Powers, from Russell County, Virginia. His recording career encompasses 33 sides for the Victor, Edison, and OKeh labels, though 14 of those seem to be unissued. This is a 1925 Edison recording, and he is backed by a family band:

Orpha Powers, mandolin;
Charlie Powers, banjo;
Carrie Powers, guitar;
Ada Powers, ukulele

Despite what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How can a poor man stand such times and live?</title>
		<link>http://www.tangleweed.org/blog/2008/12/10/how-can-a-poor-man-stand-such-times-and-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Rainey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blind Alfred Reed recorded this in New York City, just weeks after the 1929 stock market crash. His recording career began two years earlier in Bristol Tennessee, discovered in the same series of sessions that produced the first recordings by Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family. Reed was 47 at the time of the sessions.
While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Hardy was a desperate little man</title>
		<link>http://www.tangleweed.org/blog/2008/11/02/john-hardy-was-a-desperate-little-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Rainey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The song John Hardy has long been a staple of the bluegrass canon. Tony Russell&#8217;s Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942; lists seven prewar recordings by five different performers:

Eva Davis: April, 1924
Ernest Stoneman: August, 1925, July, 1928
Buell Kazee: April, 1927
The Carter Family: May, 1928
Clarence Ashley: April, 1930 (as &#8216;Old John Hardy&#8217;)
Roy Harvey: June 1931

Here&#8217;s an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sweet Brothers and Ernest Stoneman singing I Got a Bulldog</title>
		<link>http://www.tangleweed.org/blog/2008/07/05/the-sweet-brothers-and-ernest-stoneman-singing-i-got-a-bulldog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Rainey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This appealing side was cut on July 10, 1928 in Richmond, Indiana, for the Gennett label. It was paired with a tune from a session five days earlier (&#8216;Somebody&#8217;s Waiting for Me&#8217;) on Gennett 6620.
The personnel:

Herbert Sweet: fiddle;
Earl Sweet: banjo, vocal;
Ernest Stoneman: guitar, vocal

I don&#8217;t know much about the tune. The text seems to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weems String Band playing Greenback Dollar</title>
		<link>http://www.tangleweed.org/blog/2008/06/30/weems-string-band-playing-greenback-dollar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Rainey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This side, recorded in Memphis in December, 1927, represents one half of the total recorded output of Weems String Band. It&#8217;s a pity, too, because it&#8217;s a rather extraordinary record. With more weemses than one could shake a stick at.
The personnel:

Dick Weems, fiddle;
Frank Weems, fiddle;
Alvin Condor, banjo/ voc;
Jesse Weems, cello

While the inclusion of the cello [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Carter Family playing Wildwood Flower</title>
		<link>http://www.tangleweed.org/blog/2008/06/08/the-carter-family-playing-wildwood-flower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Rainey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Carter Family first cut this tune in 1928 for the Victor label, and it remains one of their most-loved performances. Though the lyrics border on doggerel, the singing and playing are gorgeous. This has long been required learning for all aspiring old-timey guitarists. Guitar tablature for the piece is easily found with teh Google, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1924 recording of Lonesome Road Blues</title>
		<link>http://www.tangleweed.org/blog/2008/06/03/1924-recording-of-lonesome-road-blues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Rainey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Thomas Edison was, apparently, almost completely deaf. This would help to explain the quality of music on his record label, as it was almost uniformly dreadful. There&#8217;s not a lot of interest for conisseurs of early jazz or blues. There are, however, a few old-time country chestnuts in the Edison catalog.
Case in point: this 1924 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Hutchison playing Last Scene on the Titanic</title>
		<link>http://www.tangleweed.org/blog/2008/06/01/frank-hutchison-playing-last-scene-on-the-titanic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Rainey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Virginia guitarist and singer Frank Hutchison was one of the great instrumental stylists of early country music. Perhaps best-known for his song &#8216;The Train that Carried my Girl from Town&#8217;, his recorded legacy consists of 32 tracks recorded for the Okeh label between 1926 and 1929. Like many other pioneering country artists, his recording [...]]]></description>
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