Jack explores the myth-making of musicologists and shares what he's learned about the first women to record country music: Samantha Bumgarner and Eva Davis.
Songs featured:
Fly Around my Pretty Little Miss - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
Fly Around my Pretty Little Miss - Samantha Bumgarner
The Worried Blues - Samantha Bumgarner
Cindy in the Meadow - Samantha Bumgarner and Eva Davis
Big-Eyed Rabbit - Samantha Bumgarner
References:
A Great American Tapestry: The Many Strands of Mountain Music (film). 2017
A Program of the Demonstration of American Music.
http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/psf/box38/a343y01.html
Bufwack, M. A., & Oermann, R. K. (2003). Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music, 1800-2000. Country Music Foundation.
Gillespie, M., & McMillen, S. G. (Eds.). (2014). North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times--Volume 1. University of Georgia Press.
Hotaling, Lynn. (2019). Samantha Bumgarner was a Musical Pioneer. The Sylva Herald.
Miller, K. H. (2010). Segregating sound. Duke University Press.
Peterson, R. A. (2013). Creating country music: Fabricating authenticity. University of Chicago Press.
Scoggins, M. C. (2013). The Scotch-Irish Influence on Country Music in the Carolinas: Border Ballads, Fiddle Tunes and Sacred Songs. Arcadia Publishing.
Sullivan, J. J. (2019). Rhiannon Giddens and What Folk Music Means. The New Yorker.
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Deadlines for submitting cover songs:
Lottie Kimbrough - June 9
Roba Stanley - June 16
Moonshine Kate - June 23
Sara Carter - June 30
Maybelle Carter - July 7