ETSU Old-Time Music
  • Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
  • Roll Along Prairie Moon
  • Ain't It Hell, Boys > Hell Among the Yearlings
  • Goodbye Dixie Dear
  • Won't You Waltz Home Sweet Home With Me
  • Home Sweet Home
  • Back to Old Smoky Mountain
  • Come Back to Your Dobie Shack
  • Riding Old Paint
  • East Tennessee Blues
  • Pride of the Prairie
  • Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (02:55) [6.68 MB]
  • Roll Along Prairie Moon
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (03:33) [8.14 MB]
  • Ain't It Hell, Boys > Hell Among the Yearlings
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (04:55) [11.24 MB]
  • Goodbye Dixie Dear
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (02:47) [6.36 MB]
  • Won't You Waltz Home Sweet Home With Me
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (03:35) [8.22 MB]
  • Home Sweet Home
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (01:41) [3.86 MB]
  • Back to Old Smoky Mountain
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (03:11) [7.28 MB]
  • Come Back to Your Dobie Shack
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (02:45) [6.3 MB]
  • Riding Old Paint
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (02:12) [5.03 MB]
  • East Tennessee Blues
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (02:29) [5.68 MB]
  • Pride of the Prairie
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (02:51) [6.51 MB]
Biography
The music on this recording is the result of a semester-long old-time string band class in ETSU’s Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies program in which students worked together to learn songs and tunes from the earliest days of recorded country music. Half of the songs here are borrowed from the Knoxville Sessions, the location recordings from 1929-1930 which were reissued in 2016 by Bear Family Records. The album also showcases several Patsy Montana songs to feature singer Kristi Hedtke, who grew up on the North Dakota grasslands listening to and singing (and yodeling) cowboy songs. 

Just before the recording sessions, Martin Fisher of Middle Tennessee State University brought his cylinder machine to campus for a day of recording onto wax through a 6-foot aluminum horn. The band recorded about 20 cylinders that afternoon, three of which are featured on this album.
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  • Members:
    Kristi Hedtke: guitar and vocals, Corbin Hayslett: banjo and vocals, Karl Zerfas: bass, Cameron Ragsdale: mandolin and vocals, Roy Andrade (faculty): fiddle
  • Sounds Like:
    Foghorn Stringband, Knoxville Sessions, Charlie Bowman and the Hillbillies, Patsy Montana
  • Influences:
    Knoxville Session, Charlie Bowman and the Hillbillies, Patsy Montana
  • AirPlay Direct Member Since:
    01/11/19
  • Profile Last Updated:
    08/14/23 22:12:43

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