Nothing is known about the Bently Boys except that they were from North Carolina. They recorded "Down on Penny’s Farm" in 1929 for Columbia Records. It featured banjo and guitar and the flip side track “Henhouse Blues” also featured a fiddle player. Apparently they didn’t record anything else. Harry Smith said that “Down on Penny’s Farm” was “a regionalized recasting of an earlier song called “Hard Times”.
1930
2014
Discograph
2xCD, Comp + Box, Comp
2010
1977
2020
Dust-to-Digital
4xCD, Comp + Box
2019
Bear Family Records
CD, Comp
2017
Lo-Max Records, Third Man Records, Columbia, Legacy, Sony Music
5xCD, Comp, RM + Box
2014
Le Chant Du Monde
2xCD, Comp
2013
Bear Family Records
4xCD, Comp + Box
2009
Proper Records (2)
3xCD, Comp, RM + DVD, PAL
2009
Shanachie Entertainment Corporation
CD, Comp + DVD-V
2007
Viper (2)
CD, Comp
2003
Gooddays
CD, Comp, Promo, Pap
2002
County Records
CD, Comp
1998
Yazoo
CD, Comp, RM
1952
2006
Chrome Dreams
CD, Comp, Unofficial
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