Music 115 Final Exam

Front 1

Song: Caleb Meyer (murder ballad)

Back 1

Singer: Gillian Welch

Front 2

Song: Walking the Floor Over You

Back 2

Singer: Ernest Tubb

Front 3

Song: Always Late (with your kisses)

Back 3

Singer: Lefty Frizzle

Front 4

Song: Wildwood Flower/Keep on the Sunny Side

Back 4

Singer: The Carter Family

Front 5

Song: Steal Away

Back 5

Singer: Fisk Jubilee Singers

Front 6

Song: Great Specked Bird

Back 6

Singer: Roy Acuff

Front 7

Song: Henry

Back 7

Singer: Keb Mo

Front 8

Song: Sixteen Tons

Back 8

Singer: Merle Travis

Front 9

Song: Sitting On Top of the World

Back 9

Singer: Bob Wills

Front 10

Song: Love In Vain, Cross Road Blues

Back 10

Singer: Robert Johnson

Front 11

Song: Waiting for a Train

Back 11

Singer: Jimmie Rodgers

Front 12

Song: Frontier Ballads and other cowboy songs

Back 12

Singer: John A. Lomax

Front 13

Song: John the Revelator

Back 13

Singer: Son House

Front 14

Song: It Wasn't God Who Made Honkey Tonk Angels

Back 14

Singer: Kitty Wells

Front 15

Song: Your Cheatin Heart, Love Sick Blues

Back 15

Singer: Hank Williams

Front 16

Song: Blue Moon of Kentucky

Back 16

Singer: Bill Monroe

Front 17

Song: This Land is Your Land

Back 17

Singer: Woody Guthrie

Front 18

Song: Goodnight Irene (from Angola St. Pen)

Back 18

Singer: Lead Belly

Front 19

Song: Take My Hand, Precious Lord

Back 19

Singer: Elvis Presley

Front 20

Song: Thats All Right Mama

Back 20

Singer: Elvis Presley

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After discovering fiddling John Carson in 1923 launching the country music record industry famed talent scout ___ discovered both ___ and the ___ in Bristol, TN, 1927

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Ralph Peer, Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family

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___ was a Tejano singer known as the sparrow of the poor people

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Lydia Mendoza

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___ stood in for a white woman to become the first to record the blues (crazy blues)

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Mammie Smith

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___ hit the national stage as a folk singer after being pardoned from Angola State Penitentiary

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Lead Belly

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___ reportedly made a deal with the devil to emerge as such a great singer, guitarist, and songwriter

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Robert Johnson

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Merle Travis developed a guitar style called ___ and snag about the arduous life of the coal miner

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Travis Picking

Front 27

The ___ family had hit songs in wildwood flower and keep on the sunny side

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Carter

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George D. Hay started a Friday night barn dance on Nashville Station WSM which became a wildly popular, long-running concert venue known as the ___

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Grand Ole Opry

Front 29

___ made famous a technique called the blue yodel

Back 29

Jimmie Rodgers

Front 30

___ founded the National Convention at Gospel Choirs

Back 30

Thomas A. Dorsey

Front 31

The Fisk Jubilee singers in the 18070's popularized a style of music known as ___

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Spirituals

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___ launched Sun Records in Memphis after running a successful recording studio and discovering Elvis Presley

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Sam Phillips

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The early wind up record layer known as the ___ was the prized possession of many households in the 1920's

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Phonograph

Front 34

Late 1940's white college kids became fans of black music on WDIA in the city of ___. One of their favorites was a soulful earthy singer named Chester Brunette, better known as ___.

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Memphis, Howlin Wolf

Front 35

In his hands, the guitar became a weapon

Back 35

Woody Guthrie

Front 36

A retired freight hauler in his mid 50's ___ became the Grand Ole Opry's first comedic performer

Back 36

Uncle Dave Macon

Front 37

Flatt and Scruggs, who appeared on The Beverly Hillbillies, got their start with Kentuckian ____

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Bill Monroe

Front 38

The 1st major start of the Grand Ole Opry was this fiddler turned singer

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Roy Acuff

Front 39

The ___ was extremely popular during the depression era when folks could not afford record albums

Back 39

Radio

Front 40

Legendary honky tonk singer ___ influenced George Jones, Merle Haggard, Roy Orbison, John Fogerty, and countless others (always late with your kisses)

Back 40

Lefty Frizzell

Front 41

___ was found dead in the back of his cadillac convertible on Jan. 1, 1953 after living the hard life he wrote about so well in song

Back 41

Hank Williams

Front 42

Texan ___ launched a style called Wester Swing (lets ride with Bob show) influencing Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard wanted to sound like Bessie Smith

Back 42

Bob Wills

Front 43

___ was the King of the cowboy singers a big star in Hollywood

Back 43

Gene Autry

Front 44

___ hosted King Biscuit Time, a delta Blues radio show full-time from 1951 until recently on Helena, AR station KFFA. It once featured Sonny Boy Williamson (influenced BB King)

Back 44

Sonny Payne

Front 45

___ is called the Cradle of the Blues

Back 45

Mississippi Delta

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___ is a popular, long-running radio show on KFFA in Helena, AR

Back 46

King Biscuit Time

Front 47

___ who comments in these films was a blind bluegrass musician from Deep Gap, NC

Back 47

Doc Watson

Front 48

___ is considered the first lady of country music, paving the way for other women

Back 48

Kitty Wells

Front 49

Jazz, nicknamed Satchmo, and New Orleans trumpet giant

Back 49

Louis Armstrong

Front 50

Rollicking piano style from the mid 20's important in rock and roll decades later - pinto smith..lux lewis

Back 50

Boogie Woogie