Classic Old-Time Music from Smithsonian Folkways

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This collection of old-time social and instrumental string-band music spotlights instrumental prowess. Old-time music features playing styles that pre-date bluegrass, emerging from the string band tradition stretching back to the early years of United States history. Both African-American and Anglo-American ingredients are at its core, the banjo having African origins, the fiddle European. Some of the most revered sources of old-time roots music—Dock Boggs, Roscoe Holcomb, Wade Ward, Tommy Jarrell, and more—are heard playing in their original styles. The Grateful Dead's cover of "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" and Bob Dylan's rendition of Clarence Ashley's "Little Sadie" clearly attest to the continuing influence of these songs. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place.

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101	Sugar Hill	The Iron Mountain String Band	3:35
102	Bill Morgan and His Gal (My Name is Morgan But It Ain't J.P.)	The New Lost City Ramblers	2:57
103	Country Blues	Dock Boggs	3:52
104	Little Sadie	Clarence Ashley	2:20
105	Susannah Gal (Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss)	Frank Bode and Tommy Jarrell	2:59
106	Wednesday Night Waltz	Clark Kessinger	3:07
107	Cyclone of Rye Cove	The New Lost City Ramblers	3:05
108	I'm Leaving You This Lonesome Song	Maybelle Carter and Sara Carter Bayes	2:37
109	Carroll County Blues	Doc Watson and Fred Price	1:42
110	Don't Let Your Deal Go Down	Sam and Kirk McGee	3:03
111	Trouble in Mind	Roscoe Holcomb	2:18
112	Chilly Winds	Wade Ward	1:08
113	Going Down the Road Feeling Bad	David, Bill and Billie Ray Johnson	2:25
114	Pretty Polly	Lee Sexton	2:13
115	Bonaparte's Retreat	Mike Seeger	1:29
116	Concord Rag	J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers	2:15
117	John Henry	George Pegram	2:18
118	Bowling Green	Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers	1:49
119	Fine Times in Our House	John W. Summers	3:12
120	Streets of Glory (Welcome Table)	Old Reliable String Band	2:10
121	Policeman (This Mornin', this Evenin', so Soon)	The Spare Change Boys	2:53
122	Love Somebody (Soldier's Joy)	Joe and Tommy Thompson	2:15
123	House of David Blues	Red Clay Ramblers with Al McCanless	1:27
124	Ship in the Clouds	Andy Cahan, Lisa Ornstein and Laura Fishleder	1:46
125	Late Last Night	Sam and Kirk McGee	2:26
126	Look Down That Lonesome Road	Gaither Carlton	2:07
127	Down Yonder	Gordon Tanner, Joe Miller, and John Patterson	2:38
128	Jaybird March	Etta Baker and Cora Phillips	1:51
129	John Brown's Dream	The New Lost City Ramblers	1:35

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