Yazoo Records - Early American Rural Compilations

These compilations cover the entire breadth and scope of early American rural music from the 1700s through the 1800s, including archaic ballads, old modal banjo songs, rags, fiddle tunes, blues, breakdowns, parlor ballads, fundamentalist hymns, rousing religious songs, and much more. They present a fascinating overview that is nothing less than a trip back in time to the most fertile and diverse musical environment that ever existed on earth.

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of , 46 super rarities - classic performances of early blues and old country music from the 1920s and 30s, including 2 never heard before selections by Son House. Large 20 page illustrated booklet included inside! Striking cover art by legendary cartoonist Robert Crumb.

Back To The Crossroads
The Roots of Robert Johnson

Times Ain't Like They Used To Be, Vol. 8
Early American Rural Music
Classic Recordings of the 20s and 30s

Times Ain't Like They Used To Be, Vol. 7
Early American Rural Music
Classic Recordings of the 20s and 30s

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Yazoo 2202	The Stuff That Dreams Are Made OfThe Dead Sea Scrolls of Record Collecting
Yazoo 2070	Back To The Crossroads The Roots of Robert Johnson
Yazoo 2068	Times Ain't Like They Used To Be, Vol. 8 Early American Rural Music Classic Recordings of the 20s and 30s
Yazoo 2067	Times Ain't Like They Used To Be, Vol. 7 Early American Rural Music Classic Recordings of the 20s and 30s
Yazoo 3002	The Best There Ever Was Legendary Early Blues Performers Classic Recordings From the 1920s & 1930s
Yazoo 2065	Down On The Levee The Piano Blues of St. Louis, Vol. 2 Classic Piano Blues, Rags, and Stomps of the 1920s & 1930s
Yazoo 2200	Kentucky Mountain Music 7 CDs and 32-page booklet included Classic Recordings of the 1920s & 1930s
Yazoo 3001	Man of Constant Sorrow and Other Timeless Mountain Ballads Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2064	Times Ain't Like They Used to Be — Vol. 6: Early American Rural Music Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2063	Times Ain't Like They Used to Be — Vol. 5: Early American Rural Music Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2052	The Story That the Crow Told Me — Vol. 2: Early American Rural Children's Songs Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2051	The Story That the Crow Told Me — Vol. 1: Early American Rural Children's Songs Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2050	The Half Ain't Never Been Told — Vol. 2: Early American Rural Religious Music Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2049	The Half Ain't Never Been Told — Vol. 1: Early American Rural Religious Music Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2048	Times Ain't Like They Used to Be — Vol. 4: Early American Rural Music Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2047	Times Ain't Like They Used to Be — Vol. 3: Early American Rural Music Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2046	The Cornshucker's Frolic — Vol. 2: Downhome Music & Entertainment from the American Countryside Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2045	The Cornshucker's Frolic — Vol. 1: Downhome Music & Entertainment from the American Countryside Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2040	My Rough & Rowdy Ways — Vol. 2: Early American Rural Music, Badman Ballads & Hellraising Songs Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2039	My Rough & Rowdy Ways — Vol. 1: Early American Rural Music, Badman Ballads & Hellraising Songs Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2037	Hard Times Come Again No More — Vol. 2: Early American Rural songs of Hard Times & Hardships Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2036	Hard Times Come Again No More — Vol. 1: Early American Rural songs of Hard Times & Hardships Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2033	Ruckus Juice & Chittlins — Vol. 2: The Great Jug Bands Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2032	Ruckus Juice & Chittlins — Vol. 1: The Great Jug Bands Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2031	The Rose Grew Round the Briar — Vol. 2: Early American Rural Love Songs Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2030	The Rose Grew Round the Briar — Vol. 2: Early American Rural Love Songs Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2029	Times Ain't Like They Used to Be — Vol. 2: Early American Rural Music Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2028	Times Ain't Like They Used to Be — Vol. 1: Early American Rural Music Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2027	I Can't be Satisfied — Vol. 2: Early American Women Blues Singers — Town Classic Recordings of the 1920 s
Yazoo 2026	I Can't be Satisfied — Vol. 1: Early American Women Blues Singers — Country Classic Recordings of the 1920s
Yazoo 2023	When I Was a Cowboy — Vol. 2: Early American Songs of the West Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2022	When I Was a Cowboy — Vol. 1: Early American Songs of the West Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2021	How Can I Keep From Singing — Vol. 2: Early American Religious Music & Song Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2020	How Can I Keep From Singing — Vol. 1: Early American Religious Music & Song Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2019	Harmonica Masters: Classic Recordings From the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2018	The Roots of Rap: Classic Recordings From the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2017	Before the Blues — Vol. 3: The Early American Black Music Scene Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2016	Before the Blues — Vol. 2: The Early American Black Music Scene Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2015	Before the Blues — Vol. 1: The Early American Black Music Scene Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 2014	The Music of Kentucky — Vol. 2: Early American Rural Classics 1927 — 37
Yazoo 2013	The Music of Kentucky — Vol. 1: Early American Rural Classics 1927 — 37
Yazoo 2008	Memphis Masters: Early American Blues Classics 1927 — 34
Yazoo 2007	Mississippi Masters: Early American Blues Classics 1927 — 35
Yazoo 2002	Masters of the Delta Blues: The Friends of Charlie Patton
Yazoo 1053	Harmonica Blues: Great Harmonica Performances of the 1920s and 30s
Yazoo 1043	'Please Warm My Weiner': Old Time Hokum Blues
Yazoo 1026	Country Blues: Bottleneck Guitar Classics 1926 —1937

This is the music of the American people. Nothing else in our history speaks more eloquently or with more immediacy to the subject of the American experience. This early American rural music has infused and defined all our popular music of the last 200 years, and in a vicious circle the two have constantly fed off each other. This is a music without peer, being at one and the same time joyous, plaintive, sensual and transcendent. It's unbridles power paradoxically forms an irresistible tandem with it's touching warmth, and the rhythms are of such a delightful nature as to animate the spirit as well as the legs. This grand music is also, unfortunately, a thing of the past — its likes will not be seen again. But we are blessed to have these remarkable performances still with us, and now preserved, in all their glory, forever.