Early Southern Guitar Sounds

Mike Seeger

The guitar fostered great creativity in the South as it evolved from a small gut-string instrument in polite parlors to the big, loud, steel-string guitar now found in our homes and onstage. Mike sings and plays a variety of the styles that were played in the rural South from about 1850 to 1930 on 25 different types of guitars. Featured are: banjo-like styles, rags, blues, parlor and parlor-based styles, slide guitar styles, and many song accompaniment styles. The booklet includes a fresh look at the history of the guitar and its travel South, notes on songs and styles, and photographs of all the instruments used. 28 tracks, 36-page booklet, 74 minutes

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Track Listing

101	Wildwood Flower	Mike Seeger	0:52
102	Old Chisholm Trail	Mike Seeger	1:50
103	Spanish Fandango	Mike Seeger	2:17
104	Shakin the Pines in the Holler	Mike Seeger	2:00
105	Weary Lonesome Blues	Mike Seeger	2:30
106	White Oak Mountain	Mike Seeger	3:12
107	I'm Crazy Over You	Mike Seeger	2:16
108	Can't Get a Letter from Home	Mike Seeger	2:44
109	Guitar Rag	Mike Seeger	3:05
110	Smoketown Strut	Mike Seeger	2:54
111	Big Kid's Barroom	Mike Seeger	2:46
112	Fishing Blues	Mike Seeger	3:32
113	After All Has Been Said and Done	Mike Seeger	2:43
114	Joe Lee's Tune	Mike Seeger	1:56
115	Carroll County Blues	Mike Seeger	2:31
116	Birmingham Tickle	Mike Seeger	2:35
117	Worried Blues	Mike Seeger	3:45
118	Kenny Wagner's Surrender	Mike Seeger	2:48
119	Arizona	Mike Seeger	2:21
120	Pearly Dew	Mike Seeger	2:16
121	Risselty Rosselty	Mike Seeger	1:44
122	Johnny Doyle	Mike Seeger & Alexia Smith	4:06
123	Black Jack David	Mike Seeger & Alexia Smith	2:57
124	John Henry	Mike Seeger	3:34
125	Buckdancer's Choice	Mike Seeger	3:19
126	Riley and Spencer	Mike Seeger	4:24
127	When This World Comes to an End	Mike Seeger	2:27
128	Leaning on the Everlasting Arm	Mike Seeger	1:37