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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Track Listing

101	Wildwood Flower Mike Seeger	00:52
102	Old Chisholm Trail Mike Seeger	01:50
103	Spanish Fandango Mike Seeger	02:17
104	Shakin the Pines in the Holler Mike Seeger	02:00
105	Weary Lonesome Blues Mike Seeger	02:30
106	White Oak Mountain Mike Seeger	03:12
107	I'm Crazy over You Mike Seeger	02:16
108	Can't Get a Letter from Home Mike Seeger	02:44
109	Guitar Rag Mike Seeger	03:05
110	Smoketown Strut Mike Seeger	02:54
111	Big Kid's Barroom Mike Seeger	02:46
112	Fishing Blues Mike Seeger	03:32
113	After All Has Been Said and Done Mike Seeger	02:43
114	Joe Lee's Tune Mike Seeger	01:56
115	Carroll County Blues Mike Seeger	02:31
116	Birmingham Tickle Mike Seeger	02:35
117	Worried Blues Mike Seeger	03:45
118	Kenny Wagner's Surrender Mike Seeger	02:48
119	Arizona Mike Seeger	02:21
120	Pearly Dew Mike Seeger	02:16
121	Risselty Rosselty Mike Seeger	01:44
122	Johnny Doyle Mike Seeger and Alexia Smith	04:06
123	Black Jack David Mike Seeger and Alexia Smith	02:57
124	John Henry Mike Seeger	03:34
125	Buckdancer's Choice Mike Seeger	03:19
126	Riley and Spencer Mike Seeger	04:24
127	When This World Comes to an End Mike Seeger	02:27
128	Leaning on the Everlasting Arm Mike Seeger	01:37