Label: Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 2014
Genre: Blues, World, & Country
Style: Country Blues, Breakdown
[Tracklist]
01 Chinese Breakdown (03:03)
02 Carbolic Rag (03:14)
03 Carolina Glide (03:05)
04 Stone Mountain Wobble (03:14)
05 Southern Blues (03:02)
06 Old Folks Better Go to Bed (02:50)
07 My Own Iona (03:10)
08 Hiawatha Breakdown (03:07)
09 Scottdale Stomp (02:51)
10 Silver Bell (03:16)
11 In the Shade of the Parasol (03:09)
12 Green Mountain Polka (03:12)
13 Kohala March (03:14)
14 The Moonshiners' Waltz (03:20)
15 Coughdrop Blues (03:15)
16 Scottdale Highballers (03:16)
17 Sitting on Top of the World (03:10)
18 Down Yonder (02:56)
19 Japanese Breakdown (03:13)
[Credits]
Barney Pritchard (guitar) Belvey Freeman (banjo-mandolin) Marvin Head (guitar)
[Notes]
In the first golden age of country music from the mid-1920s until the early 30s the Scottdale String Band held one of the leading names in OKeh Records' catalog of Old Time Tunes. The band took its name from the cotton mill village of Scottdale located between Decatur and Clarkston in DeKalb County Georgia. Groups of mandolins banjos and guitars in varying combinations were quite well represented on records in those years. But the Scottdale String Band's extensive and diverse legacy of sparkling performances ranging from ragtime tunes and popular songs to waltzes breakdowns and blues sets them apart from their contemporaries.
