tracks

Whitehouse Blues
Our Last Goodbye
When He Reached Down His Hand For Me
Tiny Broken Heart
New Camptown Races
Suzanne
I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer
Teardrops In My Eyes
Cumberland Gap
Live And Let Live
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
Hello City Limits
(Legend Of The) Brown Mountain Light
Lonesome Road Blues
The Train That Carried My Girl From Town
The Little Girl And The Dreadful Snake
Little Birdie
Rabbit In A Log
Grey Eagle
Wayfaring Stranger
Billy In The Lowground
The Rebel Girl
Train 45
'Neath That Cold Gray Tomb Of Stone
Get Up John

notes

Original recordings released by Folkways Records (1956-1985) and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (1989-2001).
Track 01: Various - Mountain Music Bluegrass Style, 1959
Track 02: Various - Folk Masters, 1993, SFW CD 40047
Track 03: Bill Monroe And The Blue Grass Boys* - Live Recordings 1956 -1969 (Off The Record Volume 1), 1993
Track 04: Hazel & Alice* - Won't You Come & Sing For Me?, 1973
Track 05: Red Allen (2), Frank Wakefield And The Kentuckians - Bluegrass, 1964
Track 06: Harley Allen & Mike Lilly - Suzanne, 1985
Track 07: The Nashville Grass With Curly Seckler - China Grove My Hometown, 1983
Track 08: Various - The 37th Old-Time Fiddlers Convention at Union Grove, North Carolina, 1962
Track 09: Various - American Banjo: Three-Finger And Scruggs Style, 1990
Track 10: Red Allen (2) & The Kentuckians - Live And Let Live, 1979
Track 11: Roger Sprung - Progressive Bluegrass And Other Instrumentals, 1963
Track 12: Hugh Moore and the Bluegrass Cutups - Hello City Limits, 1986, Folkways 31108
Track 13: The Country Gentlemen - Vol 4, Going Back To The Blue Ridge Mountains, 1973
Track 14: Various - American Banjo Tunes & Songs In Scruggs Style, 1956
Track 15: The Watson Family* - The Watson Family, 1963
Track 16: New Lost City Ramblers - Out Standing In Their Field, 1993, SFW CD 40040
Track 17/18: Various - FOTM - Friends Of Old Time Music, 1964
Track 19: David And Billie Ray Johnson - Bluegrass, 1983, Folkways 31056
Track 20: The Virginia Mountain Boys - The Virginia Mountain Boys, Vol. 4, 1983, Folkways 3829
Track 21: Various - The 37th Old-Time Fiddlers Convention at Union Grove, North Carolina, 1962
Track 22: Various - Don't Mourn - Organize! Songs Of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill, 1990
Track 23: Various - American Banjo Tunes & Songs In Scruggs Style, 1956
Track 24: The Lilly Bros.* & Don Stover - Folk Songs From The Southern Mountains, 1962
Track 25: Bill Monroe And The Blue Grass Boys* - Live Recordings 1956 -1969 (Off The Record Volume 1), 1993

℗© 2002 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Extensive notes, photos, 65 minutes. Specially priced!

Original recordings released by Folkways Records (1956-1985) and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (1989-2001)

Track 1 (also known as "McKinley Blues") from "Mountain Music Bluegrass Style" (1959) Folkways 2318, reissued as (1991) SFW CD 40038.
Track 2 from "Folk Masters" (1993) SFW CD 40047; recorded at Wolf Trap Farm Park, Vienna, VA, 1992.
Tracks 3, 25 from "Off the Record, Vol. 1: Live Recordings, 1956-1969" (1993) SFW 40063.
Track 4 from "Won't You Come and Sing for Me?" (1973) Folkways 31034, reissued as "Pioneering Women of Bluegrass" (1996) SFW CD 40065.
Track 5 from "Bluegrass" (1964) Folkways 2408.
Track 6 from "Suzanne" (1985) Folkways 31049.
Track 7 from "China Grove, My Home Town" (1983) Folkways 31095.
Tracks 8, 21 from "The 37th Old Time Fiddler's Convention at Union Grove, North Carolina" (1962) Folkways 2434.
Tracks 9, 14, 23 from "American Banjo: Three-Finger and Scruggs Style" (1956) Folkways 2314, reissued as SFW CD 40037 (1990).
Track 10 from "Live and Let Live" (1979) Folkways 31065.
Track 11 from "Progressive Bluegrass and Other Instrumentals: Vol. 1" (1963) Folkways 2370.
Track 12 from "Hello City Limits" (1986) Folkways 31108.
Track 13 from "Vol. 4: Going Back to the Blue Ridge Mountains" (1973) Folkways 31031.
Track 15 from "The Watson Family" (1963) Folkways 2366, reissued as SFW CD 40012 (1990).
Track 16 from "Out Standing in Their Field" (1993) SFW CD 40040.
Track 17 recorded 5 February 1961, University of Chicago.
Tracks 17, 18 from "Friends of Old Time Music" (1964) Folkways 2390.
Track 19 from "Bluegrass" (1983) Folkways 31056.
Track 20 from "The Virginia Mountain Boys, Vol. 4" (1983) Folkways 3829, recorded 1982, Woodlawn, VA.
Track 22 from "Don't Mourn Organize!: Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill" (1990) SFW CD 40026.
Track 24 from "The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover" (1962) Folkways 2433.
Track 25 recorded at the first Fincastle Bluegrass Festival on September 5, 1965 near Roanoke, Virginia.

credits

Coordinator [Production] – Mary Monseur
Liner Notes [Edited By] – Carla Borden, Frank Proschan
Mastered By – Pete Reiniger
Photography By – John Cohen (2), Phil Zimmerman (2)
Producer, Compiled By, Liner Notes – Jeff Place, Lee Michael Demsey
Supervised By [Production] – D. A. Sonneborn, Daniel Sheehy
Booklet Editor [Edited By] – Carla Borden, Frank Proschan
Coordinator [Production] – Mary Monseur
Mastered By – Pete Reiniger
Photography By [Back Cover and Inside Tray Photo] – Phil Zimmerman (2)
Photography By [Cover and Disc Photo] – John Cohen (2)
Producer, Compiled By, Liner Notes [Annotated By] – Jeff Place, Lee Michael Demsey
Supervised By [Production] – D. A. Sonneborn, Daniel Sheehy

companies

Glass Mastered At – Optical Experts Manufacturing
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Copyright (c) – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Designed At – Wilcox Design

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