By Tony Russell, Thieu Van De Vorst
SESSIONS
4 June 1938 Chicago, IL – Eldon Baker and His Brown County
Revelers (Eldon Baker [vcl-5], Wade Baker [vcl-3/gt], Floyd Baker [vcl-4/gt],
Harry Adams [gt],
Barefoot Brownie Reynolds [vcl-2/bass/harmonica-1], Charlie Linville [fiddle])
001 C
2252 COME ALONG DOWN TO THE OLD
PLANTATION -3 Vocalion 04441 Conqueror 9111 /BACM CD D 145
002 C 2253-1-2
YOU CAN'T DO WRONG AND GET BY -3 unissued / BACM CD D 145
003 C 2254-1
LOST JOHN -1-2 Vocalion 04217/ BACM CD D 145
004 C 2255-1-2 CHOKING THE REEDS -1 unissued / BACM CD D 145
005 C 2256-1-2 I KNOW THERE IS SOMEBODY WAITING -3-4-5 unissued / BACM CD D 145
006 C 2257-1-2
WHEN THE ROSES BLOOM IN DIXIELAND -3-4-5
unissued / BACM CD D 145
007 C 2258-1-2 PLODDING ALONG -3 unissued / BACM CD D 145
5 June 1938 Chicago, IL – Eldon Baker and His Brown County
Revelers (Eldon Baker [vcl-6], Wade Baker [vcl-4/gt], Floyd Baker [vcl-5/gt],
Harry Adams [vcl-3/ld
gt],
Barefoot Brownie Reynolds [bass/harmonica-2], Charlie Linville [fiddle-1]
008 C 2259-1-2
RAMBLIN' BOY -1-4-5-6 unissued
009 C 2260-1-2
DON'T LAY ME ON MY BACK -1-4-5-6
unissued
010 C 2261-1
AND IT‘S HARD -1-2-4-5 Vocalion 04217 /
BACM CD D 145 KKCD-10
011 C 2262-1-2 FROGGIE WENT A-COURTIN' -1-4-5-6 unissued/BACM CD D 145
012 C 2263-1
DON'T YOU WANT TO GO (TO THAT HAPPY HOME ON HIGH)? -4-5-6 Vocalion 04279/ BACM
CD D 145
013 C 2264-1
I WILL MEET YOU -4-5-6 Vocalion 04279/ BACM
CD D 145
014 C 2265-1
HAPPY COWBOY -1-4 Vocalion 04355 / BACM
CD D 145
015 C 2266-1
ROLL ALONG, JORDAN -1-4-5-6 Vocalion
04355/ BACM CD D 145
016 C 2267-1
ONE EYED SAM -1-3 unissued / BACM CD D
145 C4K-47911
017 C 2268-1
DEAR OLD DIXIELAND -1-4 Vocalion 04441
Conqueror 9111/ BACM CD D 145
018 C 2269-1-2
IN THE HILLS OVER THERE -1-4-5-6
unissued / BACM CD D 145
019 C 2270-1-2 SITTIN' ROUND THE FIRESIDE -1-4? Unissued/ BACM CD D 145
020 C 2271-1-2 LITTLE BONNIE
-1-4-5-6 unissued/ BACM CD D 145
SONY C4K 47911 ROOTS AND BLUES THE RETROSPECTIVE 1925-1990 (1992,
4CD BOX); KRAZY KAT KK CD 30 FAREWELL BLUES HOT STRINGBANDS 1936-1941 (UK, 2003)
ALBUMS
BACM [UK] CD D 145 Eldon Baker and his Brown County
Revelers: Come Along Down To The Old Plantation; You Can't Do Wrong And Get By;
Lost John; Chokin' The Reeds; I Know There Is Somebody Waiting; When The Roses
Bloom In Dixieland; Plodding Along; It's Hard; Froggie Went ACourtin'; Don't
You Want To Go; I Will Meet You; Happy Cowboy; Roll Along Jordan; One Eyed Sam;
Dear Old Dixieland; In The Hills Over There; Sittin' Round The Fireside; Little
Bonnie; [Wade Baker, 1945:] Long Gone From Bowling Green; You Can't Make Me Cry
Anymore; [Harry Adams, 1952:] Don't Hang Around Me Anymore; Milk Bucket Boogie;
Arkansas Traveller; Giving Everything Away; Bile Em Cabbage Down; Vine Street
Stomp - 06
SINGLES
ARC – Vocalion (1938)
04217 Lost
John / And It‘s Hard - 38
04279
Don't You Want To Go (To That Happy Home On High)? / I Will Meet You - 38
04355
Happy Cowboy / Roll Along Jordan - 38
04441 Come
Along Down To The Old Plantation / Dear Old Dixieland – 38 (also on