Dubbed the Bristol Sessions, those recordings are being honored with a new tribute CD set for release this October. Titled Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited, the collection will feature new recordings of select songs from those iconic sessions by such artists as Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Steve Martin, Marty Stuart, Doyle Lawson, Shannon and Ashley Campbell (who are two of Glen Campbell's children), Eddie Stubbs and Ashley Monroe.

The Bristol Sessions took place in July and August of 1927 in the town of Bristol, which sits on the border between Tennessee and Virginia. The sessions were presided over by Ralph Peer, a New York City producer who became a pioneer in field recording, traveling to various cities in the 1920s to record budding folk and blues artists. In the process he helped turn the old-time folk style of rural Southerns into a new breed of commercial music that was dubbed at various times folk, hillbilly, country-western and eventually just country.