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"The Best MP3s in the Public Domain"

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    There are so many great songs in the public domain arena. We are ripping and specially mastering MP3 files as fast as we can. We hope you enjoy our selections.
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    Jamestown Exhibition by Bayless Rose
    country/folk, bluegrass
    A good swaying bluegrass diddy, here. Round and round with a steady beat and rhythm, this is just pure and simple guitar pickin' magic. Nobody...  more »
    L & N Rag by Alex Hood And His Railroad Boys
    country/folk
    Good old fashion foot stompin' fiddle music, here. From Corbin, Kentucky with a little rag about the Louisville and Nashville railroad lines. From a day...  more »
    Barbeque Bess by Bessie Jackson
    blues, piano
    Born Lucille Bogan, Bessie is heatin' up the grill, here at PD4U! A saucy, tantalizing mp3 that will surely get your mouth watering. Known for...  more »
    I'm A Guitar King by Tommy McClennan
    blues
    Hail the King! Hail the King! But wait...what could make a man declare such a thing? We at PD4U did not understand this self evaluation,...  more »
    Tell Me Man Blues by Henry Sims
    blues, delta
    Henry Sims was a talented multi-instrumentalist from Mississippi. His fiddle work next to the famous guitar playing of Charlie Patton made him a well known...  more »
    Fate Of Rhoda Sweetin by Wilmer Watts and the Lonely Eagles
    country/folk
    This mp3 brings back an old mystery. Who sang this song? It was written about the murder of band member Charley Freshours sister. But it...  more »
    Washboard Wiggles by Tiny Parham And His Musicians
    blues, jazz, big band
    Clean as a whistle on a hot soapy shammy! That washboard, indeed gets you wiggling! Tiny Parham was a Chicago band leader that never...  more »
    Alabama Woman Blues by Scrapper Blackwell and Leroy Carr
    blues
    Scrapper Blackwell and Leroy Carr were a famous guitar and piano duo from the 1920's circuit of blues. It was Carr that convinced Blackwell, a...  more »
    Mobile County Blues by Nelstone's Hawaiians
    blues
    "Take a little drink before you play that thing...you play a little better when you on that tea..." Nelstone's Hawaiians was formed in southern Alabama...  more »
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    Camp Nelson Blues by Booker Orchestra
    blues
    Jim Booker, who learned fiddle playing from his father, a former slave in Kentucky, with his string band Booker Orchestra: his younger brothers, Joe and...  more »
    Mississippi Jailhouse Groan by Rube Lacy
    blues
    ''Mississippi Jail House Groan'' was recorded for Paramount in 1928, although he reputedly played on a number of other recordings made by Mississippi artists. In...  more »
    Thirty One Blues by Bob Call
    blues
    Bob Call is believed to come from Texas. During the late '20s he was residing in Chicago and became friends with pianist Will Ezell. Both...  more »
    Last Gold Dollar by Ephraim Woodie & The Henpecked Husbands
    country/folk
    In the fall of 1929 Ephraim Woodie and the Henpecked Husbands got a chance to make recordings for the Columbia Phonography Company. They first recorded...  more »
    Louisberg Blues by Uncle Bunt Stephens
    country/folk
    One of the most amazing fiddlers of his era, Uncle Bunt Stephens won contests galore during the '20s and later appeared on the Grand Ole...  more »
    Stack O' Dollars by James Cole
    blues
    James Cole was one of a small number of black fiddlers from the historic '20s and '30s who were lucky enough to be documented on...  more »
    The Girl I Left Behind by Gene Autry
    country/folk, roots
    Gene Autry, if you have forgotten, recorded and wrote hundreds of songs; he was and still might be America's most successful singing cowboy; was cast in...  more »
    The Grapevine Twist by Steve and His Hot Shots
    country/folk, Old time fiddle
    Gather round and promenade, through the pine tree serenade, all is grand and all is fine when the grapevine twist goes down like wine. Wicked...  more »
    Old Jimmy Sutton by The Bogtrotters
    country/folk, Old time fiddle
    Davey Crockett Ward and Alec Dunford were the fiddle players and founding members of The Bogtrotters. Fields Ward, Crockett's son, played the guitar...  more »
    Indian Tom Tom by Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band
    country/folk, blues, Indigenous music of America
    An Mp3 diamond in the rough. A rare find for us, here. Talk about having the blues! Big Chief Henry soars into the skies of...  more »
    Midnight Special by Bill Cox
    country/folk, blues
    Bill Cox does his version of a traditional song, that was written in the American prisons back in the early 1900's. His light bouncy rendition...  more »
     
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