Reissue - Originally released in 1953 as 3 volumes of 2 LPs each, this historic collection is now available as 3 separately packaged boxes containing 6 remastered CDs. Rare photos, interviews and essays are also included. "The most influential and magical document of the American urban folk revival." Billboard.
8 King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O - Chubby Parker
9 Old Shoes and Leggins - Uncle Eck Dunford
10 Willie Moore - Richard Burnett and Leonard Rutherford
11 A Lazy Farmer Boy - Buster Carter and Preston Young
12 Peg and Awl - Carolina Tar Heels
13 Ommie Wise - G.B. Grayson
14 My Name Is John Johanna - Kelly Harrell
- Disc 2 -
1 Bandit Cole Younger - Edward L. Crain
2 Charles Giteau - Kelly Harrel
3 John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man - Carter Family
4 Gonna Die with My Hammer in My Hand - Williamson Brothers and Curry
5 Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
6 White House Blues - Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers
7 Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
8 When That Great Ship Went Down - William and Versey Smith
9 Engine 143 - Carter Family
10 Kassie Jones - Furry Lewis
11 Down on Penny's Farm - Bently Boys
12 Mississippi Boweavil Blues - Masked Marvel
13 Got the Farm Land Blues - Carolina Tar Heels
- Disc 3 -
1 Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens
2 The Wild Wagoner - Jilson Setters
3 Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
4 La Danseuse - Delma Lachney and Blind Uncle Gaspard
5 Georgia Stomp - Andrew and Jim Baxter
6 Brilliancy Medley - Eck Robertson
7 Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming & His Pep-Steppers
8 Old Country Stomp - Henry Thomas
9 Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson
10 Saut Crapaud - Columbus Fruge
11 Acadian One-Step - Joseph Falcon
12 Home Sweet Home - Breaux Freres
13 Newport Blues - Cincinnati Jug Band
14 Moonshiner's Dance (Part One) - Frank Cloutier and the Victoria Cafe Orchestra
- Disc 4 -
1 You Must Be Born Again - Rev. J.M. Gates
2 Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting - Rev. J.M. Gates
3 Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
4 Present Joys - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
5 This Song of Love - Middle Georgia Singing Conv. No. 1
6 Judgement - Sister Mary Nelson
7 He Got Better Things for You - Memphis Sanctified Singers
8 Since I Laid My Burden Down - Elders McIntorsh & Edwards' Sanctified Singers
9 John the Baptist - Rev. Moses Mason
10 Dry Bones - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
11 John the Revelator - Blind Willie Johnson
12 Little Moses - Carter Family
13 Shine on Me - Ernest Phipps & Holiness Singers
14 Fifty Miles of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee
15 In the Battlefield for My Lord - Rev. D.C. Rice and Congregation
- Disc 5 -
1 The Coo Coo Bird - Clarence Ashley
2 East Virginia - Buell Kazee
3 Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
4 I Woke Up One Morning in May - Didier Hebert
5 James Alley Blues - Richard 'Rabbit' Brown
6 Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs
7 I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
8 Mountaineer's Courtship - Ernest and Hattie Stoneman
9 The Spanish Merchant's Daughter - Stoneman Family
10 Bob Lee Junior Blues - Memphis Jug Band
11 Single Girl, Married Girl - Carter Family
12 Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme - Cleoma Breaux & Joseph Falcon
13 Rabbit Foot Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
14 Expressman Blues - Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell
- Disc 6 -
1 Poor Boy Blues - Ramblin' Thomas
2 Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers
3 Country Blues - Dock Boggs
4 99 Year Blues - Julius Daniels
5 Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
6 See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
7 C'est Si Triste Sans Lui - Cleoma and Ophy Breaux and Joseph Falcon
8 Way Down the Old Plank Road - Uncle Dave Macon
9 Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line - Uncle Dave Macon
10 Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
11 K.C. Moan - Memphis Jug Band
12 Train on the Island - J.P. Nestor
13 The Lone Star Trail - Ken Maynard
14 Fishing Blues - Henry Thomas
Reissue - Originally released in 1953 as 3 volumes of 2 LPs each, this historic collection is now available as 3 separately packaged boxes containing 6 remastered CDs. Rare photos, interviews and essays are also included. "The most influential and magical document of the American urban folk revival." Billboard.
