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