Episode 2571: 26-18 Outstanding in Their Field

How do we know what has gone before in music and folklore? Musical explorers with reel-to-reel recorders and notebooks went out and found music, recording musicians and singers and storytellers to make sure the music kept going. For the record this week, we'll listen to field recordings from years past, including the Doc Watson Family, Sara and Maybelle Carter (as recorded by Mike Seeger) and Pink Anderson, among many others. Music collected in the field … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian FolkwaysThe Doc Watson Family / “Tucker's Barn” / Tradition / RounderJames “Son Ford” Thomas / “44 Blues” / Voices of Mississippi / Dust to DigitalWill Shade, Charlie Burse and Gus Cannon / “Take Your Fingers Off It” / Classic Harmonica Blues / Smithsonian FolkwaysPink Anderson / “Talking Blues” / Classic African American Songsters / Smithsonian FolkwaysPeg Leg Sam / “Froggy Went A-Courting” / Classic African American Songsters / Smithsonian FolkwaysE.C. Ball / “The Farmer's Curst Wife” / Sounds of the South / AtlanticMaybelle Carter and Sara Carter Bayes / “I'm Leaving You this Lonesome Song” / Classic Old-Time Music / Smithsonian FolkwaysDoug Wallin / “Naomi Wise” / Classic American Ballads / Smithsonian FolkwaysBurl Hammons / “The Big Scioty” / The Hammons Family / RounderThe Doc Watson Family / “Give the Fiddler a Dram” / Tradition / RounderThe Southland Hummingbirds / “You Don't Know Like I Know” / Voices of Mississippi / Dust to DigitalIndian Bottom Association Old Regular Baptists / “Guide Me O Though Great Jehovah” / Songs of the Old Regular Baptists / Smithsonian FolkwaysBozie Sturdivant / “Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down” / A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings / RounderJames “Son Ford” Thomas / “I Know It's Wrong to be Playin' the Blues” / Voices of Mississippi / Dust to DigitalLead Belly / “Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea” / Cowboy Songs on Folkways / Smithsonian FolkwaysElizabeth Cotten / “In the Sweet Bye and Bye” / Close To Home / Smithsonian FolkwaysW.H. Stepp / “Bonaparte's Retreat” / A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings / RounderPete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways