1920's mandolin

[cooper4205]

here are a couple of interesting recordings on archive.org. I'm sure some of you have heard them but hear they are. the first one is the Aiken County String Band (http://www.archive.org/details/Sheriff) doing "High Sheriff" from 1927,

the next one is Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell (http://www.archive.org/details/BlackMattie) doing "Black Mattie Blues" from 1929. some really cool stuff from the early recording days

[jus]

Thanks for posting this, really enjoy that grove, I'm sure it has been covered before somewhere on this discussion board, but does Yank Rachell use a non-standard tuning on this?

Justin

[jus]

grove??? I meant groove http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[MandoSquirrel]

Yank is noted for tuning down, so his G positions put him in the key of E.

[hoffmannia2k7]

let's hear it for the aiken county string band!