Across the Blue Ridge #122 - Women In Old-Time Music, Part 2

We conclude our two-part Blue Ridge Music Trails feature on women in old-time music with more of Alice Gerrard's presentation at the Earle Theater in Mount Airy, NC – and more great music. Hear about Cousin Emmy, the irrepressible Kentucky radio performer who brought old-time music to the national stage; Aunt Jenny Wilson, a West Virginia farm woman who never aspired to fame but could play a clawhammer banjo and sing with the best of them; and many more.  Alice Gerrard, a pioneer for women in bluegrass music herself, takes us along her life path and its intersections with performers famous and not. We hear about successes and difficulties, women on the road as professional musicians and women whose husbands discouraged them from playing at all. Plus … in the first segment of the show, some powerful classics of old time and bluegrass music from Charlie Poole, Doc Watson, Dan Boner, Hannah Shira Naiman, and others. 

Playlist

1. Lonesome Road Blues
   Mountain Park Old Time Band
   Dancing On Rocky Island
   Mountain Park Old Time Band
    
2. Why Don't You Tell Me So
   Dan Boner
   West Of West Virginia
   Dan Boner
    
3. Train On The Island
   Hannah Shira Naiman
   Know The Mountain
   Merriweather Records
    
4. The Letter That Never Came
   Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
   Old Time Songs
   County
    
5. Sitting On Top Of The World
   Doc Watson
   Classic Appalachian Blues
   Smithsonian Folkways
    
6. Give Me Just A Little More Time
   E.C. Ball
   E.C. Ball With Orna Ball
   Rounder
    
7. Precious Jewel
   Frank Bode
   Been Riding With Old Mosby
   Smithsonian Folkways
    
8. Break 1 - George Booker
   Sheila Kay Adams
   All The Other Fine Things
   Granny Dell
    
9. I'm Going To Organize
   Sarah Ogan Gunning
   Girl Of Constant Sorrow
   Folk-Legacy
    
10. Old Jack Frost
    Sarah Ogan Gunning
    Girl Of Constant Sorrow
    Folk-Legacy
     
11. Honey In The Rock
    Wilma Lee Cooper
    Classic Country Favorites
    Rebel
     
12. Singing Waterfall
    Molly O'Day
    Molly O'Day & The Cumberland Mountain Folk
    Bear Family
     
13. Ruby
    Cousin Emmy
    Cousin Emmy And Her Kinfolks
    Bear Family
     
14. The Soldier And The Lady
    Aunt Jenny Wilson
    Aunt Jenny Wilson
    FRC Field Recorders Collective
     
15. Break 2 - Arkansas Traveler
    Cousin Emmy
    Cousin Emmy And Her Kinfolks
    Bear Family
     
16. Leone Parish
    The Little Things
    The Old Time Way
    Heritage
     
17. The Hard Working Miner
    Whitetop Mountain Band
    Loafer's Dream
    Mountain Roads Recordings
     
18. Never Let Your Deal Go Down
    Etta Baker
    One Dime Blues
    Rounder
     
19. Jaybird
    Aunt Jenny Wilson
    Aunt Jenny Wilson
    FRC Field Recorders Collective