Uncle Dave Macon Uncle Dave At Home SFR 101  BUY HERE

No Tennessee old time country singer has done more for traditional American music than Uncle Dave Macon. Coming from a Middle Tennessee heritage that included ballads, Civil War songs, church songs, African American blues and vaudeville and medicine show music, Macon began his career when he was 50 years old. He was one of the first authentic Southern folk musicians to make commercial records in the 1920s and his role as one of the founding and most beloved members of the Grand Ole Opry made him one of the first members of the Country Music Hall of Fame. 

Uncle Dave At Home was recorded informally by pioneer folklorist Charles Faulkner Bryan at Uncle Dave's home in Kittrell, Tennessee in 1950 on a small portable tape recorder on a five inch reel of Scotch tape at 3 ¾ ips. As a result the sound quality is not up to today's studio standards.  Nearly half of the pieces were never commercially recorded. This is old time music at it's best!This project was funded by the Folklife Program of the Tennessee Arts Commission.  

Recorded May 1950 by Charles Faulkner Bryon
Produced and Annotated by Charles Wolf
Remastered by Bob Jones, CTS Studios, London
Digital Mastering by Bruce Nemerov, Center for Popular Music 
Graphic Design by Ron Ault