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This compilation features over an hour of previously unreleased tracks culled from the archives of Mike Seeger, one of America’s foremost collectors. Artists include Dock Boggs, Snuffy Jenkins, Tom Ashley, Arthur Smith, Sara Carter Bayes, Maybelle Carter, Elizabeth Cotten and more.

Tracklist:

1. In the Sweet By and By – Elizabeth Cotten
2. Tie Your Dog Sally Gal – Will Adam
3. Banjo Instrumental – J.C. “Cleve” Sutphin
4. Lost Train Blues – Vernon L. Sutphin
5. Shortening Bread – J.C. “Cleve” Sutphin/Vernon L. Sutphin/Vernon
6. Train That Carried My Girl from Town, The – J.C. “Cleve” Sutphin
7. Old Gambling Man – J.J. Neece
8. John Henry – J.J. Neece
9. Shout Little Lulu – Louise Foreacre
10. He Will Set Your Fields on Fire – Kilby Snow
11. Gather in the Golden Grain – Hattie Stoneman
12. Going to Lay Down My Burdens – Elizabeth White
13. John Henry – Lesley Riddle
14. Pretty Fair Damsel – Clarence Ashley
15. It’s These Hard Times – Pearly “Grandma” Davis
16. Old-Time Reel – Pearly “Grandma” Davis
17. Jackson Schottische – A.L. Hall
18. Lone Prairie – Wade Ward
19. Molly Put the Kettle On – Wade Ward
20. Last Gold Dollar – Bill McElreath
21. John Henry – Jean Davis/Bill Davis/Bill & Jean Davis
22. Three Nights Drunk – Blue Ridge Buddies
23. Jimmie Sutton – Blue Ridge Buddies
24. Going to Lay Down My Old Guitar – Ira Dimmery/Snuffy Jenkins/Ira
25. Black Mountain Rag – Kirk McGee/Sam McGee/Arthur “Guitar Boogie”
26. Talk on the World, A – Clyde Lewis
27. Red Wing – Ray “Lost John” Koken/Walt Koken/”Lost John” Ray
28. Leather Breeches – Eck Robertson/The New Lost City Ramblers
29. Blackberry Blossom – Sherman Lawson
30. Alabama Gals – Emmett Cole
31. Old Joe Clark – George Landers
32. Sugar Baby – Dock Boggs
33. Queen Sally – Archie Sturgill
34. Poor Orphan Child – Kate Peters Sturgill
35. My Virginia Rose Is Blooming – Scott Boatright
36. I’m Leaving You – Mother Maybelle Carter/Sara Carter
37. He Said, If You Love Me, Feed My Sheep – The Stancer Quartet
38. I Would Not Live Always – Clarence Ferrill

UPC: 093074009727
Label: SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
Release Date: 6.17.97
Format: CD