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. Support Women in Music: Country Soul Songbook Connect: wildwoodflowerpod@gmail.com Instagram @wildwoodflowerpod 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