Close to Home: Old Time Music from Mike Seeger's Collection, 1952-1967

In the 1950's and sixties musician-collector Mike Seeger, inspired by the great folksong collectors of the 1930's, visited traditional musicians of the rural South. This is his handpicked selection of the recordings made during those visits. Included in the 38 selections are previously unreleased recordings by the well-known Sara & Maybelle Carter, Arthur Smith, Elizabeth Cotten, and Dock Boggs, as well as treasures by lesser-known artists. The enclosed booklet contains photographs and notes on the performance, which include virtuoso fiddle, banjo, and guitar music, unaccompanied ballad singing, and a story-teller entertaining his buddies in a fiddler's convention parking lot.

Track Listing

101	In the Sweet Bye and Bye	Elizabeth Cotten	01:24
102	Tie Your Dog, Sally Gal	Will Adam	02:41
103	Banjo Instrumental	J.C. "Cleve" Sutphin	02:01
104	Lost Train Blues	V.L. Sutphin	01:16
105	Shortening Bread	V.L. And Cleve Sutphin	01:45
106	The Train That Carried My Girl from Town	V.L. And Cleve Sutphin	01:30
107	Old Gambling Man	J.J. Neece	03:24
108	John Henry	J.J. Neece, Cleve and V.L. Sutphin	02:16
109	Shout Little Lulu	Louise Foreacre	00:51
110	He Will Set Your Fields on Fire	Kilby Snow	02:19
111	Gather in the Golden Grain	Ernest V. and Hattie Stoneman	00:53
112	Going to Lay Down My Burdens	Elizabeth White and Gideon Craig	01:42
113	John Henry	Lesley Riddle	02:26
114	Pretty Fair Damsel	Clarence Ashley	02:29
115	It's These Hard Times	Pearly "Grandma" Davis	01:23
116	Old Time Reel	Pearly "Grandma" Davis and Oliver Davis	02:13
117	Jackson Schottische	A.L. Hall	02:12
118	Lone Prairie	Wade Ward	01:36
119	Molly Put the Kettle On	Wade Ward	01:23
120	Last Gold Dollar	Edsel Martin and Bill McElreath	01:43
121	John Henry	Bill and Jean Davis	01:11
122	Three Nights Drunk (Our Goodman)	The Blue Ridge Buddies with E.C. and Orna Ball	02:36
123	Jimmie Sutton	The Blue Ridge Buddies with E.C. and Orna Ball	01:44
124	Going to Lay Down My Old Guitar	Snuffy Jenkins and Ira Dimmery	00:59
125	Black Mountain Rag	The McGee Brothers and Arthur Smith	02:21
126	A Talk on the World	Clyde Lewis	04:52
127	Red Wing	Lost John Ray and Walt Koken	00:53
128	Leather Britches	Eck Robertson and the New Lost City Ramblers	03:02
129	Blackberry Blossom	Sherman Lawson	02:01
130	Alabama Gals	Emmett Cole	00:59
131	Old Joe Clark	George Landers	00:50
132	Sugar Baby	Dock Boggs	02:41
133	Queen Sally	Archie Sturgill	01:47
134	Poor Orphan	Kate Peters Sturgill	03:09
135	My Virginia Rose	Scott Boatright	02:19
136	I'm Leaving You	Sara Carter Bayes and Maybelle Carter	02:38
137	He Said If You Love Me, Feed My Sheep	The Stancer Quartet	02:56
138	I Would Not Live Always	Clarence Ferrill	01:32