Classic Old-Time Music from Smithsonian Folkways

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.

Track Listing

101	Sugar Hill	The Iron Mountain String Band	03:35
102	Bill Morgan and His Gal	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:57
103	Country Blues	Dock Boggs	03:52
104	Little Sadie	Clarence Ashley	02:20
105	Susannah Gal	Frank Bode and Tommy Jarrell	02:59
106	Wednesday Night Waltz	Clark Kessinger	03:07
107	Cyclone of Rye Cove	The New Lost City Ramblers	03:05
108	I'm Leaving You This Lonesome Song	Maybelle Carter and Sara Carter Bayes	02:37
109	Carroll County Blues	Doc Watson and Fred Price	01:42
110	Don't Let Your Deal Go Down	Sam and Kirk McGee	03:03
111	Trouble in Mind	Roscoe Holcomb	02:18
112	Chilly Winds	Wade Ward	01:08
113	Going Down the Road Feeling Bad	David, Bill and Billie Ray Johnson	02:25
114	Pretty Polly	Lee Sexton	02:13
115	Bonaparte's Retreat	Mike Seeger	01:29
116	Concord Rag	J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers	02:15
117	John Henry	George Pegram	02:18
118	Bowling Green	Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers	01:49
119	Fine Times in Our House	John W. Summers	03:12
120	Streets of Glory	Old Reliable String Band	02:10
121	Policeman	The Spare Change Boys	02:53
122	Love Somebody (Soldier's Joy)	Joe and Tommy Thompson	02:15
123	House of David Blues	Red Clay Ramblers with Al McCanless	01:27
124	Ship in the Clouds	Andy Cahan, Lisa Ornstein and Laura Fishleder	01:46
125	Late Last Night	Sam and Kirk McGee	02:26
126	Look Down That Lonesome Road	Gaither Carlton	02:07
127	Down Yonder	Gordon Tanner, Joe Miller, and John Patterson	02:38
128	Jaybird March	Etta Baker and Cora Phillips	01:51
129	John Brown's Dream	The New Lost City Ramblers	01:35