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BANJO BALLADS 1924-1930 - LP
UPC: 769152437583
Label: MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
Format: LP
Release Date: May 29, 2026
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An austere and dialed compilation of 1920's and 1930's ballads. All plaintive solo vocals accompanied by the banjo. No dance songs. Instead you get intense very American tunes about existential angst, murder, love, mystical happenings and so on. The manna.
As far as we know, this is the first record to compile purely hard hitting banjo ballads from the golden 78 era. A treasure....
TRACK LIST:
A1 John Hammond – Pretty Polly
A2 Dock Walsh– In The Pines
A3 John Hammond – My Mama Always Talked To Me
A4 BF Shelton*– Oh Molly Dear
A5 Samantha Bumgarner– Georgia Blues
A6 John Hammond – Little Birdie
B1 Clarence Ashley– Dark Holler Blues
B2 Crockett Family - Mountaineers*– Sugar Hill
B3 John Hammond – As Free A Little Bird As Can Be
B4 BF Shelton*– Darling Cora
B5 Bascom Lamar Lunsford– Italy
B6 Emry Arthur & Della Hatfield– Short Life Of Trouble
