Tell It To Me / Revisiting The Johnson City Sessions 1928-1929 - CD

Various: Tell It To Me / Revisiting The Johnson City Sessions 1928-1929 version on CD in Standard edition. This particular edition was published in publishing company Bear Family Records on 11. September 2020.

- The book "Tell It To Me: Revisiting the Johnson City Sessions, 1928-1929," which was released in August 2019 in conjunction with the 90th anniversary celebration of the Johnson City Sessions, aims to explain what music historian Ed Ward meant when he tweeted: "Johnson City Sessions: much more fun than the Bristol Sessions. Fewer stars, more insight into a vanished world."- Groundbreaking research from Bear Family's award-winning 4-CD box set "The Johnson City Sessions: Can You Sing or Play Old-Time Music?" from 2013 is collected here on a single CD. - "Tell It To Me" presents 26 key moments from historically significant recordings made on behalf of Columbia Records in Johnson City, Tennessee in 1928 and 1929. - The recordings on this CD compilation include some of the most famous and influential recordings from the 1920s. 1920s, including Clarence Ashley's original recording of The Coo-Coo Bird, Charlie Bowman's Roll On, Buddy, Three Men Went A Hunting by Byrd Moore and his Hot Shots, Bill and Belle Reed's Old Lady And The Devil, and Down On Penny's Farm by The Bentley Boys. - "Tell It To Me" includes a new essay in which Ted Olson, Grammy-nominated author of the liner notes, describes the Johnson City recordings, places them in historical context, and assesses their lasting historical impact - The Johnson City recordings on "Tell It To Me" were meticulously restored at the time of the 4-CD box set's release and meet Bear Family's high standards for sound quality. As a result, these nine-decade-old recordings sound warm and clear - as if they were made yesterday. Featuring recordings by 26 different artists active in the late 1920s, Tell It To Me offers a diverse and dynamic overview of Appalachian folk music on the brink of the Great Depression. Although this album encompasses a range of genres and styles and presents both secular and religious material, it is thematically homogeneous and all of the tracks come from commercial recording sessions held by Columbia Records in Johnson City, Tennessee in October 1928 and 1929. The book "Tell It To Me," which contains 25% of the released songs from these two Johnson City sessions, documents the timeless performances from 1928-1929 and substantiates recent claims by discerning 78 RPM recording aficionados that these sessions represent an extraordinarily remarkable canon of historic recordings.

Album can be classified in the genre Folk, World, & Country.