Discs contain selected recordings from the 1920s and '30s.
Contents:
Disc 1. Arkansas hoedown (Home Folk Fiddlers). Mary don't you weep (Georgia Yellow Hammers) -- Jake leg rag (Narmour & Smith) -- Church bells (Prince Moore) -- Callahan rag (Roane County Ramblers) -- Engineer Joe (Banjo Joe) -- I want to go where Jesus is (Ernest Phipps and his Holiness Quartet) -- I wish I were a mole in the ground (Amos Baker) -- When summer comes again (Lewis Brothers) -- Frankie (Dykes' Magic City Trio) -- Johnson gal (Leake County Revelers) -- Possum hunt on Stump House Mountain, part 1 ; Possum hunt on Stump House Mountain, part 2 (Gid Tanner, Clayton McMichen, Riley Puckett, Lowe Stokes, Fate Norris) -- Stered gal (Mississippi Bracey) -- Little boy working on the road (Jilson Setters) -- Lead kindly light (Loveless Twins Quartet) -- Roll on the ground (Al Hopkins and his Buckle Busters) -- Concord rag (J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers) -- Barney McCoy (Uncle Eck Dunford and Ernest Stoneman) -- Round town girls (Blue Ridge Highballers) -- Motherless children (Carter Family) -- Labor for the Lord (Rev. W. M. Mosley and his Congregation) -- Arkansas hoedown (Home Folk Fiddlers). Disc 2. Skipping and flying (Jilson Setters). Way up on Clinch Mountain (Fiddlin' Sam Long of the Ozarks) -- True friendship (Rev. J. C. Burnett) -- Tequila hop blues (Narmour and Smith) -- The telephone girl (Orville Reed) -- Blackberry blossoms (Burnett and Ruttledge) -- When he died he got a home in Hell (Kid Williams and Bill Morgan) -- It's hard to love and can't be loved (Buster Carter and Preston Young) -- Kitty waltz (Carter Family) -- Johnny bring the jug 'round the hill (Birmingham Entertainers) -- Old time corn shuckin', part 1 ; Old time corn shuckin', part 2 (Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers) -- Train carry my girl back home (Mainer's Mountaineers) -- Old time breakdown (Miller's Merrymakers) -- Railroad Bill (Riley Puckett) -- Been to the east, been to the west (Leake County Revelers) -- Gonna raise the ruckus tonight (Charlie Bowman and his Brothers) -- Man who wrote the home sweet home never was a married man (Charlie Parker and Mack Woolbright) -- Cotton eyed Joe (Dykes' Magic City Trio) -- Kidnapping is a terrible crime (Joe Smith) -- The Comforter has come (Rev. W. M. Mosley) -- Johnson City rag (Roane County Ramblers) -- Way up on Clinch Mountain (Jilson Setters).
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