Title from disc label. Contains previously released material, 1920-1950. Program notes, by Mark Humphrey, and full credits printed on container. Various performers.
Contents:
(3:15) -- Kid man blues Crazy blues (Memphis Minnie) -- (3:28) -- Rambler blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson) (2:47) -- Levee camp moan blues (Texas Alexander) (3:04) -- Bull doze blues (Henry Thomas) (3:30) -- Too tight blues no. 2 (Blind Blake) (2:55) -- Big road blues (Tommy Johnson) (3:21) -- Walk right in (Cannon Jug Stompers) (2:57) -- Pony blues (Charlie Patton) (2:59) -- Dirty no-gooder's blues (Bessie Smith) (2:57) -- The girl I love, she got long curly hair (Sleepy John Estes) (2:57) -- Travelin' blues (Blind Willie McTell) (3:13) -- Got the blues can't be satisfied (Mississippi John Hurt) (2:51) -- Walkin' blues (Son House) (2:55) -- Vicksburg blues (Little Brother Montgomery) (3:13) -- I'm so glad (Skip James) (2:500 -- Milk cow blues (Kokomo Arnold) (3:11) -- When the sun goes down (Leroy Carr) (2:57) -- I want you to know (Bo Carter) (3:03) -- Back door blues (Casey Bill Weldon) (3:10) -- C & A blues (Big Bill Broonzy) (2:58) -- Good morning little school girl (Sonny Boy Williamson) (3:00) -- Mr. Johnson swing (Lonnie Johnson) (2:43) -- Romance in the dark (Liil Green) (3:22) -- Bedroom blues (Sippie Wallace with Albert Ammons & his Rhythm Kings) (3:15) -- Kid man blues (Memphis Minnie) -- (2:38) -- Jesus hits like an atom bomb Arkansas traveler (Johnny and Jack) Grilland) (2:58) -- Darling Cora (B.F. Shelton) (3:47) -- Don't let your deal go down (Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers) (2:51) -- Worthy of estimation (Uncle Dave Macon) (2:51) -- Dance all night with a bottle in your hand (Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers with Riley Puckett) (2:56) -- Wildwood flower (the Carter Family) (3:12) -- Blue yodel (Jimmie Rodgers) (3:24) -- K.C. blues (Frank Hutchison) (3:03) -- Blue railroad train (the Delmore Brothers) (2:57) -- I wanna be a cowboy's sweetheart (Patsy Montana & the Prarie Ramblers) (3:06) -- Somebody's been using that thing (Milton Brown and his Brownies) (2:52) -- Banjo pickin' girl (Coon Creek Girls) (2:53) -- Peacock rag (Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & his Dixieliners) (2:38) -- Cool water (the Son of the Pioneers) (2:44) -- Mule skinner blues (Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys) (2:43) -- Time changes everything (Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys) (2:38) -- I ain't goin' honky tonkin' anymore (Ernest Tubb) (2:31) -- Fireball mail (Roy Acuff) (2:32) -- 1942 turkey in the straw (Carson Robison) (:30) -- Ruby (Cousin Emmy and her Kinfolks) (2:39) -- Little glass of wine (the Stanley Brother & the Clinch) (3:06) -- Tramp on the street (Molly O'Day) (2:46) -- Guitar blues (Chet Atkins & the All Star Hillbillies) (2:49) -- George's playhouse (the Maddox Bros. & Rose) (2:43) -- I'm so lonesome I could cry (Hank Williams) (2:46) -- Jesus hits like an atom bomb (Johnny and Jack) (2:38) -- (2:35). The hammer song The house carpenter (Paul Robeson) (3:15) -- Dark was the night, cold was the ground (Blind Willie Johnson) (3:19) -- The old gray horse (Obed 'Dad' Pickard) (3:16) -- Sur le borde de l'eau (Blind Uncle Gaspard) (3:19) -- Quill blues (Big Boy Cleveland) (2:41) -- Religion is a fortune (Alabama Sacred Heart Singers) (2:50) -- Two white horses in a line (the Two Poor Boys) (2:52) -- Indian war whoop (Floyd Ming & his Pep Steppers) (3:09) -- Shake mother's hand for me (Golden Eagle Gospel Singers) (2:35) -- Down in the willow garden (Texas Gladden and Hobart Smith) (2:48) -- Glory in the meetinghouse (Luther Strong) (1:43) -- Another man done gone (Vera Hall) (1:26) -- Rock island line (Kelly Pace with Charlie Porter, Napoleon Cooper, Albert Pate, Willie Lee Jones, John A. Lomax) (1:48) -- Goodnight Irene (Leadbelly) (4:46) -- The Mullingar Lee ; The star of Munster (Hugh Gillespie) (3:10) -- Blues de basile (Denus McGhee and Amedie Ardoin) (2:55) -- Kozak zawydija (Ukrainska Orchestra Pawla Humeniuka) (3:01) -- Chicharronera polka (Narcisco Martinez y Santiago Almeida) (2:36) -- Nedem geldem amerikaya (Achileas Poulos) (4:04) -- Mal hombre (Lydia Mendoza) (3:29) -- Poor wayfaring stranger (Burl Ives) (1:13) -- Song for John Doe (Peter Seeger & the Almanac Singers) (2:31) -- Pretty boy Floyd (Woody Guthrie) (3:09) -- Uncle Sam says (Josh White) (2:42) -- I want two wings (Elder Utah Smith) (2:53) -- Dark as a dungeeon (Merle Travis) (2:47) -- The hammer song (Paul Robeson) (2:35).
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