We've posted a lot of different media material on the documentary blog so far, which is all collected here for convenience. Listen to audio, view photos, and watch videos from the digital Reedy media library. Enjoy!
*NOTICE!* We recently discovered that the YourListen platform where we posted the following audio files is no longer active! We are working to find another method of sharing these archival audio gems in the near future. Meanwhile, there is an archived version of our YourListen profile on the Wayback Machine where you can access and play them individually.
Audio
* John Reedy Voice-O-Graph "To All the Family"1:05 recording by John Reedy (including greetings from wife Frances and sister to Marie) recorded in a carnival recording booth and sent to his sister Beulah and discovered after her death by her granddaughter Robin
* "Oh Death" (Starday SEP 168)
* John Interviews Junior (Christmas Eve 1961)
* "Tiny Bitty Pieces Knockin' On Your Door"
Mash-up of Frances Reedy's song "Tiny Bitty Pieces" and her husband John Reedy's song "Knockin' On Your Door"
* "I Feel Jesus" (Reel-to-Reel)
This is a home-made reel-to-reel tape recording of Frances Reedy singing "I Feel Jesus," a gospel song she wrote, with Pete Cultice playing steel guitar, Alonzo Honeycutt on mandolin, and her granddaughter Timi Reedy on washboard. Recorded in Corbin, Kentucky in the late 1960s or early 1970s. (Frances and her husband also recorded this song commercially in Nashville, Tennessee on the Starday label (SEP 209) as "John Reedy and The Stone Mt. Trio" in 1962.)"
* Frank Godbey Asks Ralph Stanley About Learning "Oh Death" (1967)
* "Oh Death" (Starday SEP 168)
This is a home-made reel-to-reel recording of John and Frances Reedy's recording of "Oh Death," which was included as part of a radio "infomercial" broadcast on WCKY (Cincinnati, OH) advertising the 1961 Hall of Fame Series Gospel Songs By All Star Artists (SEP 168).
* John Interviews Junior (Christmas Eve 1961)
John Reedy interviews his nephew Junior Fields about living in Dayton, Ohio compared to living in Kentucky.
* "Tiny Bitty Pieces Knockin' On Your Door"
Mash-up of Frances Reedy's song "Tiny Bitty Pieces" and her husband John Reedy's song "Knockin' On Your Door"
* "I Feel Jesus" (Reel-to-Reel)
This is a home-made reel-to-reel tape recording of Frances Reedy singing "I Feel Jesus," a gospel song she wrote, with Pete Cultice playing steel guitar, Alonzo Honeycutt on mandolin, and her granddaughter Timi Reedy on washboard. Recorded in Corbin, Kentucky in the late 1960s or early 1970s. (Frances and her husband also recorded this song commercially in Nashville, Tennessee on the Starday label (SEP 209) as "John Reedy and The Stone Mt. Trio" in 1962.)"
* Frank Godbey Asks Ralph Stanley About Learning "Oh Death" (1967)
This is an excerpt of Frank Godbey interviewing Ralph Stanley as a guest on his "The Sound of Bluegrass" WMNI radio show in Columbus, Ohio on September 9, 1967. Frank asks Ralph where he learned the old gospel song "Oh Death," which he says he learned from John (and Frances) Reedy. (Digital audio and content details courtesy of Stanley Brothers historian Gary B. Reid)
* Rebel Reedy Radio
These digitized commercial recordings by John and Frances Reedy were posted by enthusiastic vinyl aficionados of the Bluegrass/Country/Honky-Tonk/Rock-a-Billy persuasion. The playlist includes:
* Rebel Reedy Radio
These digitized commercial recordings by John and Frances Reedy were posted by enthusiastic vinyl aficionados of the Bluegrass/Country/Honky-Tonk/Rock-a-Billy persuasion. The playlist includes:
"Knockin' on Your Door" (Jalyn 213 recorded as John Reedy & Danny Roberts in Dayton, OH in 1965 or 1967)- "Somebody Touched Me" (original 1949 recording on Twin City Records (1021) re-released on the 2006 Fuel compilation, Appalachian Heart: The Original Bluegrass Classics)
- "Oh Death" (John Reedy 502 custom press recorded as John Reedy & His Stone Mountain Trio in Dayton, OH in 1960 or 1961)
- "Driftwood" John Reedy 502 custom press recorded as John Reedy & His Stone Mountain Trio in Dayton, OH in 1960 or 1961)
- "Driftwood" (John Reedy 502 (1960) / Starday SEP 166 (1961))
- "Climbing the Stairway to Heaven" (Starday SEP 179 recorded as John Reedy and The Stone Mt. Trio in Nashville, TN in 1961)
- "Going Up" & "Walk Around Me" (Ark 200 EP recorded as John Reedy and The Stone Mountain Quartet in Cincinnati, OH in 1961)
- "You Take One Step-He'll Take Two" (Starday SEP 199 recorded as John Reedy & the Stone Mtn. Trio in Nashville, TN in 1962)
- "I'll Fly" (Starday SEP 199 recorded as John Reedy & the Stone Mtn. Trio in Nashville, TN in 1962)
- "High Up in the Kingdom" (Starday SEP 199 recorded as John Reedy & the Stone Mtn. Trio in Nashville, TN in 1962)
- "Mighty Hand of God" (Starday SEP 209 recorded as John Reedy and The Stone Mt. Trio in Nashville, TN in 1962)
- "Jonah" (Starday SEP 209 recorded as John Reedy and The Stone Mt. Trio in Nashville, TN in 1962)
- "I Feel Jesus" (Starday SEP 209 recorded as John Reedy and The Stone Mt. Trio in Nashville, TN in 1962)
- "That Big Hand of God (Starday SEP 209 recorded as John Reedy and The Stone Mt. Trio in Nashville, TN in 1962)
- "Going to Tennessee" (re-release of the original 1960s Jalyn 324 recording by John Reedy and Danny Roberts on the 2018 "Corn Fed, Volume 3" compilation)
Photo Slideshow
Various family photos, memorabilia, presentation slides, and other images.
