Here is a key to discographic entries accompanying DrDosido CDs*, followed by a list of instrument abbreviations.
[Artist name/ Release name] (1st recording session) [Location, Date]
[Personnel/ instrumentation]
[#.] [song title] [matrix #] [Label #] (for 1st release)
[#.] [song title] [matrix #] [Label #] (for 1st release)
[Artist name/ Release name qualified] (subsequent session) [Location, Date]
[#.] [song title] [matrix #] [Label #] (for 1st release)
Abbreviations
ac accordion g guitar sp speech
bj banjo ha harmonica tb trombone
cl clarinet hn horn tbj tenor banjo
cn cornet jh jaw harp tp trumpet
dm drum md mandolin vcl vocal
f fiddle pno piano vln violin
fl flute sbs standing bass wb washboard
Information on recording session dates, locations, and personnel, along with matrix numbers and label catalog numbers, comes primarily from the following sources:
Meade, Guthrie T. N.d. The Fiddler’s Compendium. Typescript.
Meade, Guthrie T. Jr. with Dick Spottswood & Douglas S. Meade. 2002. Country Music Sources: A Biblio-Discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music. Southern Folklife Collection.
Russell, Tony. 2004. Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942. Oxford University Press.
Spottswood, Richard K. Ethnic Music on Records: A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893 to 1942. 7 vols. University of Illinois Press.
*Okay, these are not really CDs. I began in 2003 by compiling a set of physical CD albums, but in this chapter of the project, with more material available, I have quit working within the time limits of a physical compact disc.