Flowers in the Wildwood

For any Country fans out there, here’s a classic: “Flowers in the Wildwood: Women in Early Country Music”.
It came out last year on the Trikont label, based in Munich. As they say on the cover, “Rare Songs aus der Zeit vor dem 2. Weltkrieg, als die Frauen im Suden der USA sich daran machten, die Countrymusic fur sich zu erobern.”

Apart from the Coon Creek Girls, the Girls of the Golden West, and the Chuck Wagon Gang, there are contributions from the DeZurik Sisters, Samantha Bumgarner, Fred & Gertrude Gossett (with the frankly rather gloomy “All the Good Times Are Past & Gone”), and, with a fine rendition of “On the Banks of the Old Tennessee”, Mr. & Mrs. J.W.Baker. Yodelling cowgirls, wonderful harmonies: what more could you want?