One Day Deal MUSIC FROM THE LAND OF THE SKY 1925 ASHEVILLE SESSIONS / VARIOUS (COKE BOTTLE CLEAR) – LP

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UPC: 620953702211 Label: RIVERMONT Format: LPRelease Date: December 12, 2025In stock items ship within 48 hours(2-LP Set) In the late summer of 1925, pioneering producer Ralph Peer directed a series of recording sessions atop the George Vanderbilt Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina that would become the stuff of legend. They were the first commercial recordings ever made in Appalachia and included several influential “old-time” musicians (Wade Ward, Ernest V. Stoneman, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Kelly Harrell, and Henry Whitter) alongside regional prize-winning fiddlers, banjo players, harmonica soloists, and even visiting vaudeville and pop performers like Emmett Miller and the Carolina Club Orchestra. The immensely entertaining and historically important records they produced include mountain ballads, folk tunes, ragtime instrumentals, novelties, and more; and yet, these recordings have been overlooked for a century because of their extreme rarity and technological limitations. Peer would go on to direct the famed 1927 Bristol Sessions, widely considered the “Big Bang of Country Music” – but these 1925 Asheville recordings lit the fuse. The 84-minute collection on two 180g clear vinyl pressings includes 28 complete selections, meticulously restored from the original discs with no artificial enhancements, and a generous 24-page book by renowned scholars Ted Olson and Tony Russell, telling in detail the fascinating story of the 1925 Asheville Sessions with dozens of rare photographs, a complete discography, song lyrics, color reproductions of all original labels, and biographies of all session participants.TRACK LIST:

1. [2:41] I’m Going Back to North Carolina 2. [2:46] I Never Had the Blues (Until I Left Old Dixie Land) 3. [2:38] Devil in the Wood Pile 4. [2:33] Sherman Valley 5. [2:56] St. Louis Tickle 6. [3:47] John Hardy 7. [3:08] When the Redeemed Are Gathering In 8. [2:55] Royal Clog 9. [2:45] The Cackling Hen 10. [2:43] A Married Man’s Blues 11. [3:52] The Wreck on the Southern Old 97 12. [3:29] I Have No Mother Now 13. [3:07] Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now) 14. [3:10] Rose of the Nile 15. [3:06] Arkansas Traveler 16. [3:05] Whistlin’ Rufus 17. [2:47] The Sailor’s Song 18. [2:48] Medley: Dill Pickle – Turkey in the Straw – Swanee River 19. [3:12] Lovesick Blues 20. [2:47] Fate of Santa Barbara 21. [3:44] Blue Eyed Ella 22. [3:20] Let Your Shack Burn Down 23. [2:24] They Always Pick on Me 24. [2:54] All I’ve Got’s Gone 25. [2:33] You’re Just the Girl for Me 26. [2:56] Collegiate 27. [2:58] American and Spanish Fandango 28. [2:56] Peg and Awl