Jack explores the myth-making of musicologists and shares what he's learned about the first women to record country music: Samantha Bumgarner and Eva Davis.

Songs featured:

Fly Around my Pretty Little Miss - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

Fly Around my Pretty Little Miss - Samantha Bumgarner

The Worried Blues - Samantha Bumgarner

Cindy in the Meadow - Samantha Bumgarner and Eva Davis

Big-Eyed Rabbit - Samantha Bumgarner

References:

A Great American Tapestry: The Many Strands of Mountain Music (film). 2017

A Program of the Demonstration of American Music. http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/psf/box38/a343y01.html

Bufwack, M. A., & Oermann, R. K. (2003). Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music, 1800-2000. Country Music Foundation.

Gillespie, M., & McMillen, S. G. (Eds.). (2014). North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times--Volume 1. University of Georgia Press.

Hotaling, Lynn. (2019). Samantha Bumgarner was a Musical Pioneer. The Sylva Herald.

Miller, K. H. (2010). Segregating sound. Duke University Press.

Peterson, R. A. (2013). Creating country music: Fabricating authenticity. University of Chicago Press.

Scoggins, M. C. (2013). The Scotch-Irish Influence on Country Music in the Carolinas: Border Ballads, Fiddle Tunes and Sacred Songs. Arcadia Publishing.

Sullivan, J. J. (2019). Rhiannon Giddens and What Folk Music Means. The New Yorker.

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Deadlines for submitting cover songs:

Lottie Kimbrough - June 9

Roba Stanley - June 16

Moonshine Kate - June 23

Sara Carter - June 30

Maybelle Carter - July 7