Early Southern Guitar Sounds

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