Sweet!
To me, alot of those early tunes have become classic 'Americana' themselves. I've got my own loose classification of what I call "Hillbilly Dead" or otherwise. Basically if it's not obvious Blues and its got a train, prison, hobo, dawg, mine, bar or.... fill in the blank, it goes in my Hillbilly category. I've been fighting thru alot of Blue Grass lately with my gnarly fingers but I'm diggin' it. I play in an all acoustic group and that is the bulk of the stuff that we do. Haven't gotten around yet to nailing the lyrics to BEW but that sounds like it could be a good w/e project. I pulled out Cumberland one nite on some blue grass dudes and they were like, WTF?.
Billbbill, if either you or your buddy tabbed some of those licks, it be greatly appreciated. You could use my ole' coon houn' any ole time.
Nice work.