Charlie Poole With The Highlanders – The Complete Paramount & Brunswick Recordings, 1929

Tompkins Square – TSQ 2875

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 2013
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country, Old Time
[Tracklist]
01 Lynchburg Town (3:04)
02 San Antonio (2:52)
03 Richmond Square (3:03
04 May I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister (3:13)
05 A Trip To New York, Part I (3:10)
06 A Trip To New York, Part II (3:00)
07 A Trip To New York, Part III (2:50)
08 A Trip To New York, Part IV (2:59)
9 Flop Eared Mule (3:02)
10 Tennessee Blues (3:05)
11 Under The Double Eagle (3:00)
12 What Is Home Without Babies (3.02)
[Notes]
From 1926 to 1930 one of the most popular rural string bands on record was Charlie Poole and The North Carolina Ramblers. Through their 78 RPM discs and their various performances, Charlie Poole was second only to Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers. Poole’s uniquely syncopated three finger banjo picking style coupled with his Piedmont vocal inflections eventually colored and defined much of what we consider "old-time" music. The classic configuration of banjo, fiddle and guitar with vocals was encouraged by the main label that promoted Poole but he also wanted to record instrumentals featuring twin-fiddle and piano. As renaming his group The Highlanders, Poole was able to actualize this musical vision. This collection contains all of the sides that Poole made with Roy Harvey, Lucy Terry, and twin-fiddlers Lonnie Austin & Odell Smith. Remastered in beautiful sound by Christopher King and with notes written by old-time musician and scholar Kinney Rorrer.

Family Strings: Billy Strings and His Dad Terry Barber

Live at City Opera House in Traverse City, MI. on February 28, 2020

A re-edited/remastered version of Billy Strings and Terry Barber's incredible performance at City Opera House in Traverse City, Michigan. This broadcast was brought to you by a dedicated group of volunteers. To find out more, visit: Traverse Area Community Media

1. Brown’s Ferry Blues
2. Windy and Warm
3. Tall Pines
4. Big Sandy River
5. Mother’s Not Dead
6. Way Downtown
7. Bye Bye Blues
8. Portrait of the Blues
9. Summertime
10. Pear Tree
11. Little White Church in the Valley
12. Fiddler’s Dram
13. Long Journey Home
14. The Preacher and the Bear
15. Miss the Mississippi
16. Dig a Little Deeper in the Well
17. Georgia Buck
18. Letter Edged in Black
19. Beaumont Rag
20. Willie Roy
21. Salt Creek
22. Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
23. Cocaine Blues
24. Here Comes the Sun
25. Streamlined Cannonball
26. Bringing Mary Home
27. Blue Ridge Cabin Home
28. Rank Stranger

Produced by Traverse Area Community Media, Billy Strings (guitar/banjo/vocals) Terry Barber (guitar/vocals)

Songs of Our Native Daughters

Smithsonian Folkways SFW40232

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 22 Feb 2019
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 Black Myself (3:56)
A2 Moon Meets The Sun (4:08)
A3 Barbados (5:52)
A4 Quasheba, Quasheba (4:43)
A5 I Knew I Could Fly (3:42)
A6 Mama's Cryin' Long (2:11)
B1 Slave Driver (4:42)
B2 Polly Ann's Hammer (3:00)
B3 Lavi Difisil (2:30)
B4 Blood And Bones (4:45)
B5 Music And Joy (3:19)
B6 You're Not Alone (5:36)
[Credits]
Rhiannon Giddens (banjo/handclaps/vocals) Amythyst Kiah (guitar/banjo/vocals) Leyla McCalla (guitar/banjo/cello/vocals) Allison Russell (guitar/banjo/vocals) Dirk Powell (guitar/banjo/fiddle)
[Notes]
Songs of Our Native Daughters shines new light on African-American women's stories of struggle, resistance, and hope. Pulling from and inspired by 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century sources, including slave narratives and early minstrelsy, kindred banjo players Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell reinterpret and create new works from old ones. With unflinching, razor-sharp honesty, they confront sanitized views about America’s history of slavery, racism, and misogyny from a powerful, black female perspective. These songs call on the persistent spirits of the daughters, mothers, and grandmothers who have fought for justice – in large, public ways – only now being recognized, and in countless domestic ways that will most likely never be acknowledged. 52 minutes, 36-page booklet with lyrics. Note: LP versions omit the track "Better Git Yer Learnin."

Home: Billy Strings

Rounder Records 1166100637

Format: 2×Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 27 Sep 2019
Genre: Jazz, Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
A1 Taking Water (4:08)
A2 Must Be Seven (3:28)
A3 Running (2:57)
A4 Away From the Mire (7:43)
B1 Home (7:36)
B2 Watch It Fall (4:37)
B3 Long Forgotten Dream (4:29)
C1 Highway Hypnosis (5:08)
C2 Enough to Leave (3:45)
C3 Hollow Heart (2:35)
C4 Love Like Me (2:53)
D1 Everything's the Same (2:54)
D2 Guitar Peace (4:16)
D3 Freedom (2:34)
[Credits]
Billy Strings (guitar/banjo/vocals) Billy Failing (banjo/vocals) Royal Masat (bass/vocals) Jarrod Walker (mandolin/vocals) Molly Tuttle (vocals)
Cover Artist: Sean Williams, Designer: Bill Orner, Photographer: Jesse Faatz
[Notes]
Home begins with 30 seconds of down-tempo guitar arpeggio and fiddle birdsong. It ends with the full quartet — Billy Strings (guitar), Billy Failing (banjo), Royal Massat (upright bass), and Jarrod Walker (mandolin) — crashing through a cover of Bill Monroe's "Big Sandy River." In between, there’s an hour of bluegrass played with a 27-year-old's intensity, a hearty dose of psychedelia, and undeniable star appeal. Born William Apostol, Strings has it all: incomparable chops, powerful vocals, and songwriting smarts.

Memories And Moments: Tim O'Brien And Darrell Scott

Full Skies Records

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2013
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Country
[Tracklist]
01 Time To Talk To Joseph (4:13)
02 It All Comes Down To Love (3:29)
03 Keep Your Dirty Lights On (3:26)
04 Brother Wind (5:00)
05 Memories And Moments (3:36)
06 Paradise (4:52)
07 Just One More (2:16)
08 Fiddler Jones (5:01)
09 The Well (3:23)
10 Alone And Forsaken (4:05)
11 You Don't Own Me (3:48)
12 Angel's Blue Eyes (3:31)
13 Free Again (4:30)
14 On Life's Other Side (4:01)
[Notes]
Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott have teamed up again for their first collaboration since Real Time (2000). And what good news that is, because their new album, Memories and Moments, oozes class. It is country/bluegrass/Americana – file it as you like – of the finest order, and the pair contribute five original songs. They also offer some stimulating covers, not least of Hank Williams's Alone and Forsaken. Scott (from Kentucky) and O'Brien (from West Virginia) are both skillful multi-instrumentalists and their voices and playing gel naturally, with nuance and feeling. The album sounds fresh – it was recorded in only three days – and includes the powerful environmental song Keep Your Dirty Lights On, the album's sole joint composition. To complement that track, they also offer a moving version of Paradise, John Prine's magnificent song about strip-mining ("the coal company come with the world's largest shovel") which features the peerless Prine on vocals and guitar. They also cover Just One More, the mournful drinking song by George Jones, who was himself an alcoholic.

Songs of the Suffragettes: Elizabeth Knight

Folkways Records‎– FH 5281

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1958
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 Columbia's Daughters (2:31)
A2 Uncle Sam's Wedding (1:24)
A3 Keep Woman in Her Sphere (2:17)
A4 Let Us All Speak Our Minds (1:35)
A5 The Taxation Tyranny (1:46)
A6 The Promised Land (2:45)
A7 The Suffrage Flag (1:49)
A8 Winning The Vote (2:56)
B1 Give the Ballot to the Mothers (1:13)
B2 Song of Wyoming (2:25)
B3 Going to the Polls (0:55)
B4 Where Are Your Boys Today! (4:38)
B5 The Yellow Ribbon (1:32)
B6 Hallelujah Song (2:24)
B7 Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be! (1:58)
B8 The New America (1:50)
[Credits]
Elizabeth Knight (piano/vocals) Sol Julty (guitar)
Artwork: Ronald Clyne, Liner Notes: Irwin Silber
[Notes]
It is hard to believe in modern times that the issue of women's suffrage once wracked the nation. Riots, demonstrations, and indignant editorials highlight the history of this long battle that finally ended in 1920 with the 19th Amendment. Liner notes by Irwin Silber include a brief history of the suffrage movement, lyrics and background on the 16 tracks, and black-and-white political cartoons.

The Fields of November / Old And New: Norman Blake

Flying Fish‎– FF70004

Format: CD, Album, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1992
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass, Folk
[Tracklist]
The Fields Of November
01 Green Leaf Fancy
02 Last Train From Poor Valley
03 White Oak Stomp
04 Graycoat Soldiers
05 Southern Railroad Blues
06 Lord Won't You Help Me
07 Krazy Kurtis
08 Coming Down From Rising Fawn
09 Uncle
10 The Old Brown Case
11 The Fields Of November

Flying Fish‎– FF70004

Old And New
12 Widow's Creek
13 Bristol In The Bottle
14 Billy Gray
15 Forked Deer
16 Cuckoo's Nest
17 Witch Of The Wave
18 My Old Home On The Green Mountainside
19 Miller's Reel
20 Dry Grass On The High Fields
21 Harvey's Reel
22 The Railroad Days
23 Valley Head
24 Sweet Heaven
25 Ajimina
26 Flat Rock
[Credits]
Norman Blake (guitar/fiddle/dobro/mandolin/vocals) Charlie Collins (guitar/fiddle) Robert Arthur "Tut" Taylor (dobro) Nancy Short (cello)
[Notes]
The Fields of November is an album of American guitarist Norman Blake, released in 1974. It was reissued in 1992 by Flying Fish along with Old and New as a double CD. Blake later married Nancy Short, who plays cello on this release. They would release a number of duet albums throughout the years.

Back Home In Sulphur Springs: Norman & Nancy Blake

Smithsonian Folkways PLECT012112

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2006
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
01 More Good Woman Gone Wrong (3:13)
02 Columbus Stockade Blues (3:22)
03 He's Coming To Us Dead (2:59)
04 The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee (3:33)
05 We Parted By The Riverside (3:55)
06 Ella Ree (3:36)
07 Happy Little Home In Arkansas (3:10)
08 Back Home In Sulphur Springs (3:22)
09 The Mermaid (5:23)
10 Take Home Poor Julia (4:33)
11 Seaboard Airline Rag (2:50)
12 Star Spangled Banner (1:57)
13 The Empress Of Ireland (3:35)
14 Katy Cline (3:22)
15 Don't Be Afraid Of The Neo-Cons (4:23)
[Cerdits]
Norman Blake (guitar/dobro/fiddle/mandolin/vocals) Nancy Blake (guitar/cello/vocals)
Engineers: Butch Hause and David Glasser, Photographer and Designer: Donald Kallaus, Liner Notes: Scott O'Malley
[Notas]
Norman and Nancy Blake's Back Home in Sulphur Springs was named in reference both to Norman's classic 1972 debut Home in Sulphur Springs, and to the Alabama town where Blake spent his childhood, learned guitar from his grandmother, and first heard hillbilly records on his neighbor's Victrola record player. Presented here are fourteen old-time country selections, mostly traditional, performed in the Blakes' characteristically non-pretentious, authentic, and heartfelt style. Underscoring this, the tracks were recorded with minimal playback and are presented in the order of recording, giving the sense of a live performance.

Take Me Back to the Range: Selections from Western Jubilee Recording Company

Smithsonian Folkways WJRC019876

Format: CD, Album
Country: USA
Released: 2020
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Cowboy, Western
[Tracklist]
01 Take Me Back to the Range: Peter Rowan & Don Edwards (4:12)
02 The Sunny Side of Life: Norman Blake & Nancy Blake (3:19)
03 Where Horses Are Heroes: Wylie & the Wild West (3:19)
04 Typical: Waddie Mitchell (1:11)
05 Annie Laurie / Bad Half Hour: Don Edwards, Waddie Mitchell & the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (5:45)
06 Hallie Lonigan: Katy Moffatt (4:31)
07 Santa Rosa Serenade: Rich O'Brien (4:00)
08 Rooster Poem: Georgie Sicking (0:45)
09 Bonnie Dundee / Fareweel Tae Tarwathie / The Railroad Corral: David Wilkie & Cowboy Celtic (3:25)
10 Flop-Eared Mule: Norman Blake & Rich O'Brien (4:05)
11 Coyotes: Don Edwards (4:31)
12 Waddie-ism-8: Waddie Mitchell (0:18)
13 Summer Ranges: Michael Martin Murphey (3:33)
14 Two Miles to Town: Cowboy Nation (4:12)
15 Lupus #1: Tom Morrell (2:54)
16 Harsh Words: Waddie Mitchell (0:58)
17 Cloverdale Plantation March: Norman Blake (4:30)
18 From Whence Came the Cowboy: Sons of the San Joaquin (4:22)
[Credits]
Compilers: Scott O'Malley and Fred Knittel, Liner Notes: Jeff Place and Carla Borden, Cover Artwork: William Mathews and Bob Moline - Cover Artwork, Designer: Darryl Norsen, Mastering Engineer: Pete Reiniger
[Notes]
The Western Jubilee Recording Company is a small label with an exceptional catalog of authentic cowboy music and poetry. Founded in 1996 by Scott O’Malley, Western Jubilee has been based out of a former warehouse of the Santa Fe Railroad in Colorado Springs that doubles as an intimate concert space and recording studio. Its walls adorned with Western paraphernalia, the warehouse, much like the label itself, served as a sanctuary to the deep-rooted and ever-evolving traditions of Western music and folklife. Take Me Back to the Range: Selections from Western Jubilee Recording Company shows the label in its full breadth. From the old-time tunes and historic songs by Norman Blake and Don Edwards to Buckaroo poems from Waddie Mitchell, from Hollywood-styled "Singing Cowboy" songs from Sons of the San Joaquin to the pioneering fusion from the punk-inspired Cowboy Nation, this 18-track compilation, produced to celebrate the label’s acquisition by Smithsonian Folkways, showcases the diversity of sound and voices in cowboy music and poetry, honoring the label that has championed it.

Radio Station WNEW's Story Of Selma

Folkways Records - FH 5595

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1965
Genre: Non-Music, Folk, World, & Country
Style: African American Spoken, American History, Struggle & Protest
[Tracklist]
A1 Hold On: The Freedom Voices & Pete Seeger (2:55)
A2 We've Got A Rope That's A Berlin Wall: The Freedom Voices (2:10)
A3 I Love Everybody: The Freedom Voices & Pete Seeger (3:32)
A4 Pick 'Em Up And Lay 'Em Down : The Freedom Voices & Len Chandler (3:27)
A5 If You Want To Get Your Freedom : The Freedom Voices & Pete Seeger (1:05)
A6 Yankee Doodle (Wallace Said We Couldn't March): The Freedom Voices & Len Chandler (0:41)
A7 Oh Wallace: The Freedom Voices & Pete Seeger (2:52)
A8 Which Side Are You On?: The Freedom Voices & Len Chandler (4:21)
B1 Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round: The Freedom Voices & Pete Seeger (1:30)
B2 Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round (Chorus): The Freedom Voices (4:34)
B3 Do What The Spirits Say Do: The Freedom Voices & Len Chandler (2:26)
B4 Do What The Spirits Say Do (At Montgomery): The Freedom Voices & Len Chandler (5:14)
B5 Chant For Freedom: Len Chandler & Pete Seeger (1:33)
B6 Murder On The Roads Of Alabama: Len Chandler (4:02)
[Notes]
Starting with 3200 people in Selma, Alabama and ending in Montgomery, Alabama with 25,000, the Selma-to-Montgomery March is considered to have "...represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement." For some, "...the best and most lasting evidence of [the spirit of the event] was to be found in the songs that evolved from the march." This collection of songs was compiled by Pete Seeger, Len Chandler, and the Freedom Voices. It represents one of the most powerful tools behind this movement-song.

Step By Step: Lesley Riddle

Rounder ROUCD 0299

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1993
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country, Country Blues
[Tracklist]
01 Little School Girl (2:25)
02 Frisco Blues (2:35)
03 Broke And Weary Blues (3:00)
04 Hilltop Blues (2:05)
05 Motherless Children (2:40)
06 Titanic (3:00)
07 I'm Out On The Ocean A-Sailing (2:51)
08 I'm Working On A Building (2:05)
09 I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome (3:45)
10 Red River Blues (3:20)
11 One Kind Favor (3:55)
12 If You See My Saviour (2:35)
13 The Cannon Ball (2:40)
14 Step By Step (3:18)
[Credits]
Lesley Riddle (guitar/piano/vocals) Mike Seeger (autoharp – tracks: 14)
Liner Notes: Barry O'Connell, Recorder and Editor: Mike Seeger
[Notes]
AllMusic Review by Thom Owens: "Step by Step" Lesley Riddle Meets the Carter Family: Blues, Country and Sacred Songs contains several field recordings Mike Seeger made of guitarist/vocalist Lesley Riddle between 1965 and 1978. The music on the disc not only showcases Riddle's considerable talent, it also demonstrates that there wasn't much of a gap between blues, folk, country and mountain music.

Autoharp As Played By Mother Maybelle Carter

Sears 688S-1711

Format: Vinyl, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1965
Genre: Non-Music, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Education
[Tracklist]
A1 Untitled
A2 Untitled
B1 Untitled
[Credits]
Mother Maybelle Carter (voice)
Editor: Dr. Nat T. Winston, Jr., Narrator: Dr. Walter Duda
[Notes]
This is an instructional record meant to accompany a written manual on playing autoharp. Track A1 begins with the tune "Red River Valley" on solo autoharp, and then introduces Mother Maybelle Carter, Dr. Walter Duda (editor), and Nat T. Winston, Jr. (narrator), all in their own voices. Track A2 teaches tuning of the autoharp. Track B teaches playing "Red River Valley" on autoharp in the style of Mother Maybelle Carter.

Blake & Rice

Rounder Records CD 0233

Format: CD, Album
Country: USA & Canada
Released: 1992
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
01 New Chance Blues (2:15)
02 Green Light On The Southern (3:43)
03 I'm Not Sayin' (2:16)
04 Texas Gales (3:38)
05 Ridge Road Gravel (2:25)
06 Monroe's Hornpipe (2:14)
07 Last Train From Poor Valley (3:32)
08 New River Train (3:25)
09 Stoney Point (2:11)
10 Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar (3:32)
11 Little Beggarman/Gilderoy (3:05)
12 The Shipyard Apprentice (4:13)
13 Medley: Fiddler's Dram/Whiskey Before Breakfast (4:40)
14 I'm Comin' Back But I Don't Know When (2:43)
[Credits]
Norman Blake (guitar/mandolin/vocals) Tony Rice (guitar/vocals)
Recorder and Photographer: Bill Wolf, Engineer: George Horn
[Nptes]
Like consummate musicians, for their first album together Norman Blake and Tony Rice largely ignored flash and speed in favor of songs and mood. There is some exceptional flatpicking here, but even the more manic passages are tempered by a softness that is striking, and perhaps even a little disappointing, in its modesty. Once the listener gets past the desire to hear hardcore chops, though, the album reveals its full beauty, especially in Blake's gorgeous "Last Train From Poor Valley" and Rice's cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "I'm Not Sayin'." Perky fiddle tune medleys and bluegrass standards provide some balance, but this is gentle listening throughout. - AllMusic Review by Jim Smith

That's Why We're Marching: World War II and the American Folksong Movement

Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40021

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1996
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
01 Freedom Road: Josh White (2:20)
02 Talking Sailor (Talking Merchant Marine): Woody Guthrie (3:03)
03 The Ballad of October 16: Almanac Singers (2:49)
04 Billy Boy: Almanac Singers (2:23)
05 Plow Under: Almanac Singers (2:27)
06 I'm Gonna Put My Name Down: Tom Glazer (3:04)
07 What are We Waiting On?: Woody Guthrie (2:09)
08 Citizen C.I.O.: The Union Boys (2:31)
09 The Sinking of the Reuben James: Woody Guthrie (3:01)
10 You Better Get Ready: The Union Boys (2:32)
11 If You Want to Do Your Part: Lead Belly (2:56)
12 Move Into Germany: The Union Boys (3:00)
13 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You: Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston (2:47)
14 The Martins and the Coys: The Union Boys (3:01)
15 Hitler Song: Lead Belly (4:34)
16 Sally Don't You Grieve: Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston (2:25)
17 Jimmy Longhi Story: Vincent "Jimmy" Longhi (6:05)
18 When the Yanks Go Marching In: Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, and Sonny Terry (2:46)
19 Round and Round Hitler's Grave: Almanac Singers (1:10)
20 Fuhrer: Josh White (3:11)
21 Miss Pavlichencko: Woody Guthrie (2:30)
22 National Defense Blues: Lead Belly, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Willie Smith & George Foster (3:14)
23 Gee, But I Want to Go Home (Army Life): Lead Belly (1:47)
24 Looking for a Home: Pete Seeger (3:10)
25 Now That's It's All Over (He'll Go Back to Selling Shoes): Pete Seeger (2:10)
[Credits]
Producer and Liner Notes: Guy Logsdon and Jeff Place, Recorder: Moses Asch, Mastering Engineer: David Glasser
[Notes]
Artists include Woody Guthrie, Almanac Singers, Lead Belly, Tom Glazer, Cisco Houston, Pete Seeger, Josh White, Burl Ives, and others. Few people have heard these songs composed and sung from 1940 to 1945 by artists primarily known for their influence on American folk music after 1945. Both the protest songs and the pro-war songs are assembled for the first time in this historic compilation; they present the conflicts, the hopes, and the way songs were used to raise morale during World War II. 25 tracks, including Mr. Hitler, Talking Sailor, Ballad of October 16, and Sinking of the Reuben James. Notes include artist biographies and bibliography. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place and Guy Logsdon. "A great slice of history...also a great musical performance." — Daily News

Long Ways To Travel: The Unreleased Folkways Masters 1944-1949: Woody Guthrie

Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40046

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1994
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
01 Hard Travelin' (2:13)
02 Talking Centralia (3:24)
03 Farmer-Labor Train (2:49)
04 Harriet Tubman's Ballad (6:31)
05 Warden In The Sky (2:46)
06 Train Narration (2:29)
07 Seattle To Chicago (3:03)
08 Rain Crow Bill (2:38)
09 Along In The Sun And The Rain (2:28)
10 Budded Roses (3:02)
11 Train Ride Medley (Part 1) (6:32)
12 Girl I Left Behind Me (2:14)
13 Wiggledy Giggledy (1:10)
14 Kissin' On (2:58)
15 Rocky Mountain Slim And Desert Rat Shorty (3:07)
16 Train Ride Medley (Part 2) (4:39)
17 Long Ways To Travel (2:35)
[Credits]
Woody Guthrie (guitar/harmonica/vocals) Cisco Houston (guitar/vocals) Sonny Terry (harmonica) Butch Hawes (guitar) Bess Lomax Hawes (mandolin)
Producer and Liner Notes: Guy Logsdon and Jeff Place, Recorder: Moses Asch, Mastering Engineer: Joe Gastwirt
[Notes]
These 17 powerful songs by Guthrie, some sung with his comrade Cisco Houston, were carefully selected from dozens of unreleased Guthrie masters. Extensively annotated by fellow Oklahoman and Guthrie scholar Guy Logsdon, this collection reaffirms Guthrie's unique place in American music. Includes Harriet Tubman's Ballad, Along in the Sun and the Rain, and Talking Centralia. Compliled by Jeff Place and Guy Logsdon. "The breadth of Guthrie's ability to entertain and enrapture his audience is clearly represented on these 17 tracks." — Sing Out

On The Banks Of The Old Tennessee: Mr. & Mrs. J.W.Baker

Victor 20863-A

Recorded on August 3rd, 1927. Bristol, Tennessee (Bristol Sessions)
Flora Harris Baker (autoharp/vocals) J.W.Baker (guitar) J.E.Green (fiddle) J.H.Holbrook (banjo)

I Wasn't Born To Rock'n Roll: Roland White 1976

Tompkins Square TSQ-2400

Format: CD, Reissue, Album
Country: US
Released: 2010
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
01 Kansas City Railroad Blues (1:37)
02 The Storms Are On The Ocean (3:40)
03 I'm Head Over Heels In Love With You (2:47)
04 Door Step Of Trouble (3:17)
05 If I Should Wander Back Tonight (2:47)
06 Texas Gales (1:28)
07 I Saw Your Face In The Moon (2:56)
08 Prisoner's Song (3:44)
09 Marathon (7:38)
     Love Come Home
     Nine Pound Hammer
     Shackles And Chains
     Live And Let Live
     Doin' My Time
     Sitting On Top Of The World
10 Same Old Blues Again (2:45)
11 Powder Creek (2:30)
12 Can't You Hear Me Calling (2:56)
13 She's Her Own Special Baby 2:22)
[Credits]
Roland White (mandolin/vocals) Alan Munde (banjo/guitar) Kenny Wertz (guitar/vocals) Dave Ferguson (fiddle) Roger Bush (bass)
[Notes]
Mandolinist Roland White is a bluegrass lifer. As a youth, he rounded up his siblings, including younger brother Clarence, to start the Kentucky Colonels, who helped spearhead the West Coast bluegrass revival in the ‘60s. Guitar hero Clarence went on to make country-rock with the Byrds, while Roland played with legends like Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt, as well as Country Gazette and the Nashville Bluegrass Band. But while White has released a few latter-day solo albums, his 1976 outing, I Wasn't Born to Rock ‘n Roll, remained in the shadowy world of lost vinyl for 34 years before finally being reissued. It's a solidly old-school effort, where White takes on tunes like Flatt & Scruggs' "If I Should Wander Back Tonight" and the Carter Family's "The Storms Are on the Ocean," as well as an epic-length (for bluegrass, anyway) medley entitled "Marathon," which includes pieces of everything from Jimmie Davis' "Shackles & Chains" to Merle Travis' "Nine Pound Hammer." There's a fresh, spontaneous feel to it all that's absent from too much 21st century bluegrass; while White never goes for any showy licks, he sings and plays with what sounds like every ounce of his heart and soul. He was on the front lines alongside some of the men who invented bluegrass, and he doesn't treat these trad tunes like museum pieces, but rather like urgent messages about the raw emotions at the center of American roots music. Of course, he probably felt closest to the lone original tune here, the minor-key instrumental "Powder Creek," written in the ‘60s with Clarence, who was killed when both brothers were hit by a car in 1973. -- AllMusic Review by James Allen

Pack Up Your Sorrows: The Bergerfolk

Folkways Records FTS-32420

Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1978
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 Pack Up Your Sorrows (2:20)
A2 Until It's Time For You To Go (3:25)
A3 Times Are Gettin' Hard Boys (2:20)
A4 Handsome Molly (2:00)
A5 Loving Hannah (3:00)
A6 Jesse James (2:01)
A7 Roll On Columbia (2:30)
A8 The Rivers Of Texas (3:10)
B1 Banks Of The Ohio (4:00)
B2 Ode To America (1:40)
B3 Universal Soldier (2:35)
B4 Fair Beauty Bride (2:00)
B5 Three White Gulls (2:25)
B6 This Land Is Your Land (3:05)
B7 The Old Man´s Courtship (2:00)
B8 Amazing Grace (3:12)
[Credits]
Steve (banjo), Phoebe, Claudia, Jennifer Anne, Margaret Louise, Jonathan Glenn and Emily-Kate Berger
[Notes]
In 1978, the folk singing family band The Bergerfolk recorded their fourth and final album for Folkways. Steve and Phoebe Berger, along with four of their children, perform their interpretation of 16 traditional and modern folk songs. The Bergerfolk open with Richard Farina’s "Pack Up Your Sorrows" and close with the 18th-century hymn "Amazing Grace." In between are traditional folk songs such as "Banks of the Ohio" and "Jessie James," and songs written by Woody Guthrie ("Roll On, Columbia" and "This Land Is Your Land") and by Buffy Sainte-Marie ("Until It’s Time for You to Go" and "Universal Soldier"). Lyrics, songwriting credits, and instrumentation for all tracks are included in the liner notes.

When the Work's All Done This Fall: Ernest V. Stoneman 1926

Edison Blue Amberol: 5188 / Edison Record: 11054

Dubbed from Edison Diamond Disc matrix 11054.
Year of release from Blue Amberol records: a discography, 1912-1929 / Allan Sutton, 2005.
Special Coll., Performing Arts Cylinder 8115
Durable URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/OBJID/Cylinder8115