Banjo Ballads - As Time Draws Near (LP Vinyl)
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Mississippi Records has spent nearly two decades doing the quiet, essential work of rescuing recordings that fall between the cracks of official history, and this collection lands squarely in that tradition. The banjo, before bluegrass codified it and before the folk revival romanticized it, carried some of the darkest emotional weight in American vernacular music. These 78-era performances document that older, stranger instrument.
An auster and dialed compilation of 1920s and 1930s ballads. All plaintive solo vocals accompanied by the banjo. No dance songs. Instead you get intense very American tunes about existential angst, murder, love, mystical happenings and so on. The mana. As far as we know, this is the first record to compile purely hard hitting banjo ballads from the golden 78 era. A treasure
UPC: 769152437583
Label: Mississippi Records
Release Date: 7.3.26
Format: LP Vinyl