Je Mainer - Classic Sides 1937-41 (CD)

This, our second collection of the works of J.E. and Wade Mainer and their associates, features another 100 sides of the spellbinding music that is regarded by many as the link between the first generation of early old time music and that of the bluegrass groups of the 1940s onwards. Many sides here are impossibly rare - fortunately the well-known collector Chris King has been able to fill in many gaps. A bonus is that their sound quality is excellent as he's located originals in fine condition. We open from where we left off on the earlier collection (JSP77118), with more from Mainer's Mountaineers. Also featured are Wade Mainer, The Sons of the Mountaineers, The Happy-Go-Lucky Boys and The Morris Brothers. They are united by a unique zest, musicianship and an understanding of real life born of hard-won experience. Originally stigmatized under the dismissive 'Hillbilly' heading, this music is now recognised as both an archetypal American form and as one of the major pillars of modern popular music.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Carry Your Cross with a Smile
2. Swing the Door of Your Heart Open Wide
3. Answer to Greenback Dollar
4. There's a Green Hill Far Away
5. Miss Me When I'm Gone
6. Floating Down the Stream of Time
7. Don't Go Out
8. Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind
9. Kiss Me Cindy
10. Your Best Friend Is Always Near
11. Lamp Lighting Time in Heaven
12. When the Light's Gone Out in Your Soul
13. I Once Loved a Young Man
14. Somebody Cares
15. I'm Living the Right Life Now
16. Just Over in the Glory Land
17. I'm in the Gloryland Way
18. If I Lose, Let Me Lose
19. Great Reaping Day
20. Oh Why Did I Ever Get Married
21. Back to Johnson City
22. Ramshackle Shack
23. Memory Lane
24. Wild Bill Jones
25. I Want to Be Loved

Disc: 2

1. What Are You Going to Do Brother?
2. Companions Draw Nigh
3. Mountain Sweetheart
4. Don't Forget Me Little Darling
5. Lonely Tomb
6. Pale Moonlight
7. All My Friends
8. Don't Get Too Deep in Love
9. Don't Leave Me Alone
10. I Won't Be Worried
11. Where Romance Calls
12. Another Alabama Camp Meetin'
13. Mitchell Blues
14. Farther Along
15. Dear Loving Mother and Dad
16. Can't Tell About These Women
17. That Kind
18. If I Had Listened to Mother
19. She Is Spreading Her Wings for a Journey
20. The Same Old You to Me
21. Life's Ev'nin' Sun
22. Mother Still Prays for You Jack
23. You're Awfully Mean to Me
24. Home in the Sky
25. A Little Love

Disc: 3

1. North Carolina Moon
2. More Good Women Gone Wrong
3. Sparkling Blue Eyes
4. We Will Miss Him
5. I Left My Home in the Mountains
6. I Met Her at a Ball One Night
7. You May Forsake Me
8. Look on and Cry
9. One Little Kiss
10. Mama Don't Make Me Go to Bed
11. Crying Holy
12. Heaven Bells Are Ringing
13. Sparkling Blue Eyes No. 2
14. The Poor Drunkard's Dream
15. Were You There?
16. The Gospel Cannonball
17. The Great and Final Judgement
18. What a Wonderful Saviour Is He
19. Why Not Make Heaven Your Home
20. Mansions in the Sky
21. Not a Word of That Be Said
22. Drifting Through An Unfriendly World
23. Shake My Mother's Hand for Me
24. Anywhere Is Home
25. I Can Tell You the Time

Disc: 4

1. He Gave His Life
2. Ramblin' Boy
3. The Precious Jewel
4. Old Reuben
5. Precious Memories
6. Since I Met My Mother-In-Law
7. Bachelor Blues
8. Only a Broken Heart
9. Happy or Lonesome
10. Darling I'm Still in Love with You
11. No Letter in the Mail Today
12. Come Back, Sweetheart
13. I Hope She's Satisfied
14. Happy-Go-Lucky Breakdown
15. What-Cha Gonna Go with the Baby?
16. Garden of Prayer
17. Dream of the Miner's Child
18. Little Nellie
19. One Little Word
20. Wabash Cannon Ball No. 2
21. It's Blues
22. Gabriel's Trumpet
23. Drunkard's Hiccoughs
24. Country Blues
25. Concord Rag