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1.StopWake Up Jacob – Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers 02:55
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2.StopAcadian One-Step – Joseph Falcon 03:00
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3.StopHome Sweet Home – The Breaux Fréres 02:59
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4.StopThe House Carpenter – Clarence Ashley 03:17
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5.StopThe Wagoner's Lad – Buell Kazee 03:05
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6.StopPeg and Awl – The Carolina Tar Heels 02:59
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7.StopCountry Blues – Dock Boggs 02:59
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8.StopPrison Cell Blues – Blind Lemon Jefferson 02:47
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9.StopWay Down the Old Plank Road – Uncle Dave Macon 03:01
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10.StopSpike Driver Blues – Mississippi John Hurt 03:17
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11.StopK.C. Moan – Memphis Jug Band 02:33
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12.StopJohn Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man – The Carter Family 02:56
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13.StopStackalee – Frank Hutchison 03:01
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14.StopFrankie – Mississippi John Hurt 03:27
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15.StopWhen That Great Ship Went Down – Versey Smith, William Smith 02:58
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16.StopGot the Farm Land Blues – The Carolina Tar Heels 03:17
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17.StopLittle Moses – The Carter Family 03:14
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18.StopJohn the Revelator – Blind Willie Johnson 03:20
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19.StopSugar Baby – Dock Boggs 02:58
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20.StopEast Virginia – Buell Kazee 03:02
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21.StopThe Coo Coo Bird – Clarence Ashley 02:57
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22.StopI Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground – Bascom Lamar Lunsford 03:22
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23.StopSingle Girl, Married Girl – The Carter Family 02:47
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24.StopExpressman Blues – Sleepy John Estes, Yank Rachell 03:01
A bit like a single-disc, condensed version of Harry Smith's famous Anthology of American Folk Music (most of these tracks can be found there), this fine compilation features commercially released 78s from the 1920s and 1930s, and pretty much covers the gamut of early American vernacular music, with a fair sampling of Cajun, country-blues, gospel-blues, Appalachian folk and early country, capably representing the many varied ways that America was singing at the dawn of recorded music. With tracks from string bands, jug bands, country-blues players, street-corner preachers, Louisiana dance bands and several impressive selections by some of Appalachia's most storied modal banjo players, including Clarence Ashley, Buell Kazee and Bascom Lamar Lunsford, as well as the utterly unique banjo blues of Dock Boggs, this makes an affordable, generous (it clocks in at a little over 72-minutes-long) introduction to one of the most important and wide-open periods in American musical history. Steve Leggett, Rovi
- Genre: World, Country, Folk, Blues
- Subgenre: Traditional Country, Traditional Folk, Country Blues
- Category Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Folk-Blues, Traditional Folk, String Bands, Old-Timey
- Release Date: March 1, 2000
- Artist: American Folk Music
- Additional Artist: Various artists collection