I just stumbled on what I think is a new bebsite that is being developed. It is made up of field recordings done in the late fifties by, of all things, a traveling salesman in the hill country. You can listen to them in Real Audio streaming or you can download them at near CD quality.

It looks as though they have only indexed and digitized the first fifty or so songs, starting with "A" and they are at "E".

I tried a number of songs and they were interesting. Among the recordings is "Dick German, the Cobbler". Yes, it is the American version of the song Tommy Makehem made familiar. It is late and I am tired so I haven't fexplored much of the site. I will leave it now for others to discover what treasures lie in it.

Sourdough Sorry to make you cut and paste but here is the URL:

http://www.smsu.edu/folksong/maxhunter/SongTitle.html

Sourdough