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Sounds of Middlesboro, KY and around

Only a Miner by Cadle, Tillman

The Great Judgement Morning by Congregation of the Church of Ten Elders

Around the same times, Henry Harrison Mayes was active, Alan Lomax traveled through Appalachia and recorded the music of the people there and the people themselves. Some recordings were released on Folkways, like When Kentucky Had No Union Men by George Davis others ended up on compilations and even better, all of Lomax Kentucky field recordings are documented online and available as stream.

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