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American Roots: A History of American Folk Music

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Tracks

#	Title	Sung by
1.1	Peach Pickin’ Time in Georgia	Jimmie Rodgers	2:51
1.2	Sail Away, Ladies	Uncle Dave Macon, Sam McGee, Kirk McGee	2:56
1.3	Wildwood Flower	Sara Carter	3:09
1.4	Trail to Mexico	The Blue Sky Boys	2:28
1.5	The Runaway Train	Vernon Dalhart	3:13
1.6	When the Saints Go Marching In	Fiddlin’ John Carson and Moonshine Kate	3:05
1.7	All Night Long	Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers	3:14
1.8	Red Wing	Riley Puckett	2:40
1.9	I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes	A.P. Carter, Sara Carter	3:03
1.10	Goin’ to the Barn Dance Tonight	Carson Robison and His Pioneers	2:45
1.11	Go Long Mule	Uncle Dave Macon, Sam McGee, Kirk McGee	3:03
1.12	Frankie and Johnny	Jimmie Rodgers	2:49
1.13	Three Men Went a Huntin’	Byrd Moore and His Hot Shots	2:34
1.14	My Man’s a Jolly Railroad Man	Moonshine Kate	3:11
1.15	Waiting for a Train	Jimmie Rodgers	2:46
1.16	Georgia’s Three‐Dollar Tag	Fiddlin’ John Carson and Moonshine Kate	2:40
1.17	Jamestown Exhibition	Bayless Rose	2:46
1.18	Lay Down Baby, Take Your Rest	Carolina Tar Heels	3:07
1.19	Backwater Blues	Uncle Dave Macon	3:13
1.20	The Wreck of the Old 97	Vernon Dalhart	3:09
1.21	The Little Old Sod Shanty on My Claim	Marc Williams	3:08
1.22	Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow	Mother Maybelle Carter, A.P. Carter, Sara Carter	2:53
1.23	In the Hills of Tennessee	Jimmie Rodgers	3:03
1.24	Ida Red	The Blue Sky Boys with Curly Parker	1:20
1.25	Alto Waltz	Darby & Tarlton	3:10
2.1	John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man	Sara Carter	2:55
2.2	Gambling Bar Room Blues	Jimmie Rodgers	3:24
2.3	Little Bessie	The Alabama Barnstormers	3:16
2.4	I’ll Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms	Buster Carter & Preston Young	2:57
2.5	I’m Goin’ Away in the Morn	Uncle Dave Macon, Sam McGee, Kirk McGee	3:07
2.6	Pappa’s Billy Goat	Fiddlin’ John Carson	2:57
2.7	Hackberry Trot	The Hackberry Ramblers	2:39
2.8	Abbeville Breakdown	Alley Boys of Abbeville	2:26
2.9	Tiger Rag Blues	Breaux Frères	2:57
2.10	Louisiana Mazurka	Breaux Frères	2:52
2.11	Step It Fast	Amédée Breaux	2:56
2.12	High‐Steppin’ Mama	Gene Autry	2:48
2.13	Blue Yodel (T for Texas)	Jimmie Rodgers	3:30
2.14	Anchored in Love	A.P. Carter, Sara Carter	2:44
2.15	Jimmie Rodgers Visits	Jimmie Rodgers, Mother Maybelle Carter, A.P. Carter, Sara Carter	3:22
2.16	Hard for to Love	Hayes Shepherd	3:11
2.17	The Yellow Rose of Texas	Gene Autry and Jimmy Long	2:53
2.18	The Brave Engineer	The Carver Boys	3:15
2.19	Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Them All	Fiddlin’ John Carson and Moonshine Kate	2:46
2.20	Hold the Woodpile Down	Uncle Dave Macon, Sam McGee, Kirk McGee	3:03
2.21	I’m a Man of Constant Sorrow	Emry Arthur	3:20
2.22	Rambling Boy	Mother Maybelle Carter, A.P. Carter, Sara Carter	2:55
2.23	My Little Lady	Jimmie Rodgers	3:05
2.24	Two Italians… Red Bird	Monroe Gevedon and Family	2:11
3.1	Orange Blossom Special	Bill Monroe, Art Wooten	2:34
3.2	Brown’s Ferry Blues	Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore	2:36
3.3	Row Us Over the Tide	The Blue Sky Boys	3:12
3.4	The Big Rock Candy Mountain	Burl Ives	2:38
3.5	Oklahoma Hills	Jack Guthrie	2:46
3.6	Nine Pound Hammer	Merle Travis	2:06
3.7	Cannonball Rag	Merle Travis	1:36
3.8	Red River Valley	Gene Autry	2:24
3.9	Mule Skinner Blues	Bill Monroe	2:43
3.10	Great Speckled Bird	Roy Acuff and His Crazy Tennesseans	2:53
3.11	Take It to the Captain	Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore	2:58
3.12	Garden in the Sky	The Blue Sky Boys	2:45
3.13	Ain’t That a Cryin’ Shame	Merle Travis	2:15
3.14	Milk Cow Blues	Johnny Lee Wills and His Boys	2:48
3.15	When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again	Wiley Walker & Gene Sullivan	2:36
3.16	Footprints in the Snow	Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys	2:39
3.17	You Can’t Do Wrong and Get By	Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore	2:41
3.18	Why Should It End This Way	The Blue Sky Boys	2:38
3.19	Cotton‐Eyed Joe	Bob Wills	2:41
3.20	Night Train to Memphis	Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys	2:48
3.21	You Are My Sunshine	The Rice Brothers Gang	2:43
3.22	Rounder’s Blues	Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore	2:55
3.23	Rocky Road Blues	Bill Monroe	2:35
3.24	Wabash Cannonball	Roy Acuff and His Crazy Tennesseans	2:48
3.25	It Makes No Difference	Gene Autry	2:43
3.26	Pigmeat Strut	Merle Travis	1:43
3.27	No Letter in the Mail	Bill Monroe, Clyde Moody	2:41
4.1	This Land Is Your Land	Woody Guthrie	2:18
4.2	House of the Rising Sun	Woody Guthrie	3:00
4.3	Grand Coulee Dam	Woody Guthrie	2:12
4.4	John Henry	Cisco Houston & Woody Guthrie	2:45
4.5	All I Want	Pete Seeger	2:58
4.6	Talking Union	Pete Seeger	2:58
4.7	Teeroo Teeroo	Pete Seeger	2:28
4.8	I Know an Old Lady	Burl Ives	2:41
4.9	Columbus Stockade	Cisco Houston & Woody Guthrie	2:25
4.10	The Sinking of the Reuben James	The Almanac Singers	3:06
4.11	Boll Weevil Blues	Cisco Houston & Woody Guthrie	3:13
4.12	Away Rio	Pete Hawes With the Alamanac Singers	2:21
4.13	The Coast of High Barbary	The Almanac Singers	2:30
4.14	Jack‐Hammer Blues	Cisco Houston & Woody Guthrie	2:38
4.15	Liza Jane	Pete Seeger & Woody Guthrie	2:41
4.16	Pastures of Plenty	Woody Guthrie	2:28
4.17	Cumberland Gap	Cisco Houston & Woody Guthrie	2:20
4.18	Casey Jones	Pete Seeger	1:51
4.19	Cumberland Bear‐Chase	Pete Seeger	2:40
4.20	So Long It’s Been Good to Know You	Woody Guthrie	3:08
4.21	Union Maid	The Almanac Singers	2:11
4.22	Hard Travelin’ Guthrie	Cisco Houston & Woody Guthrie	2:13
4.23	Erie Canal	Pete Seeger	1:31
4.24	Pretty Boy Floyd	Woody Guthrie	3:10
4.25	State of Arkansas	Lee Hays	2:46
4.26	Worried Man Blues	Cisco Houston & Woody Guthrie	2:38
4.27	Deliver the Goods	The Almanac Singers	2:24
4.28	Do‐Re‐Mi	Woody Guthrie	2:34

Source: MusicBrainz release group d375b2d9-66c9-30f1-8319-f49c5fc7d3cc (CC0). Cover: Cover Art Archive.