Country Music Sources: A Biblio-discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music

Guthrie T. Meade, Richard Keith Spottswood, Douglas Shannon Meade

Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, 2002 - Folk music - 1002 pages

This book provides information on some 14,500 recordings of 3,500 old-time folk and country songs recorded between 1921 and 1942. Each performance receives a full citation, including the date and place of recording, original and variant artist, and title credits. Whenever possible, songs are traced back to their original lyricists and composers or to major published and unpublished folksong collections. Entries are grouped into broad subject categories: ballads, popular songs, religious songs, and instrumentals.



Based on 35 years of research in public and private collections of recordings, broadsides, pamphlets, and sheet music, this valuable resource allows a fresh understanding of pre-World War II country music and its intricate connections to the blues, old world folk music, and the broad spectrum of American popular song.

Contents

• B American Ballads: 17
• Twentieth Century Topical Ballads and Songs: 70
• SONGS: 110
• RELIGIOUS SONGS: 568
• INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC: 704
• BIBLIOGRAPHY: 893
• SONG TITLE INDEX: 928
• PERFORMER INDEX: 974

About the author

Guthrie T. Meade Jr. was a computer programmer and systems analyst with a lifelong interest in folk music, especially traditional country music and Kentucky fiddlers. Country Music Sources was completed and prepared for publication by Dick Spottswood and Doug Meade following the author's death in 1991.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Country Music Sources: A Biblio-discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music; Southern Folklife Collection
• Authors: Guthrie T. Meade, Richard Keith Spottswood, Douglas Shannon Meade
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, 2002
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jun 4, 2010
• ISBN: 0807827231, 9780807827239
• Length: 1002 pages