Hi,

There is no music- only texts.

It's clear that Crabtree used some printed material, newspaper clippings, and that most of the texts (she calls poems) were handwritten by the informants and given to her. In my opinion, a small number were actually collected and written down by her from the singing of an informant. The effect of radio and recordings is obvious. There are songs from the Carter family and songs from and about Jimmie Rodgers (his name spelled wrong) as well as other songs from the old-time country record era which began in 1923. There are some unusual texts and some texts that pre-date recordings made in 1936 and later. For example, the Carters recorded "My Clinch Mountain Home" in 1936. They collected and arranged some of the same texts that Crabtree found--her version of Clinch Mountain shows and earlier, yet different version of the famous Carter recording.

Richie