Album · Compilation

1959–1963

Released 1994129 tracks · 335:01EnglishBear Family Records

Tracks

#	Title	Sung by
1.1	I’m on My Way to Canaan’s Land	Lester Flatt, Culley Holt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:23
1.2	Angel Band	Lester Flatt, Culley Holt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:34
1.3	When the Angels Carry Me Home	Lester Flatt, Culley Holt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:21
1.4	I’ll Never Be Lonesome Again	Lester Flatt, Culley Holt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:23
1.5	Get on the Road to Glory	Lester Flatt, Culley Holt, Curly Seckler	2:15
1.6	Take Me in Your Lifeboat	Lester Flatt, Culley Holt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:39
1.7	Bubbling in My Soul	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler	2:16
1.8	Heaven	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler	2:34
1.9	Joy Bells	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler	2:24
1.10	Give Me Flowers While I’m Living	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler	2:34
1.11	You Can Feel It in Your Soul	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler	2:26
1.12	Give Mother My Crown	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler	2:48
1.13	The Great Historical Bum	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Curly Seckler	2:11
1.14	I’ve Lost You Forever	Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:28
1.15	Polka on a Banjo	Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:45
1.16	All I Want Is You	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	2:14
1.17	Shuckin’ the Corn (instrumental)	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	2:10
1.18	Home Sweet Home (instrumental)	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	2:14
1.19	Fire Ball Mail (instrumental)	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	1:53
1.20	Cripple Creek (instrumental)	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	2:08
1.21	Reuben (instrumental)	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	2:02
1.22	John Henry (instrumental)	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	2:07
1.23	Cumberland Gap (instrumental)	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	1:58
1.24	Lonesome Road Blues (instrumental)	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	2:02
1.25	Sally Goodwin (instrumental)	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	2:11
1.26	Little Darlin’, Pal of Mine (instrumental)	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	1:56
1.27	Sally Ann (instrumental)	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	2:11
1.28	Bugle Call Rag (instrumental)	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	2:26
2.1	I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow	Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:06
2.2	If I Should Wander Back Tonight	Lester Flatt	2:10
2.3	Cold, Cold Loving	Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:29
2.4	Welcome to the Club	Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:26
2.5	False Hearted Lover (instrumental)	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	2:23
2.6	Pickin’ in the Wildwood	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	2:19
2.7	The Homestead on the Farm	Lester Flatt	2:11
2.8	Foggy Mountain Top	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:27
2.9	You Are My Flower	Lester Flatt	2:45
2.10	Forsaken Love	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:27
2.11	The Storms Are on the Ocean	Lester Flatt	2:46
2.12	Gathering Flowers From the Hillside (instrumental)	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	2:13
2.13	Worried Man Blues	Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Josh Graves, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:02
2.14	On the Rock Where Moses Stood	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler	2:29
2.15	Keep on the Sunny Side	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler	3:08
2.16	Jimmie Brown, the Newsboy	Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler	2:36
2.17	Just Ain’t	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:16
2.18	Where Will I Shelter My Sheep	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:21
2.19	I Saw Mother With God Last Night	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler	2:42
2.20	Go Home	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	3:17
2.21	Handsome Molly	Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:04
2.22	Coal Loadin’ Johnny	Lester Flatt, Josh Graves, Curly Seckler	2:51
2.23	Hear That Whistle Blow (A Hundred Miles)	Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:38
2.24	Too Old for a Broken Heart	Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:27
3.1	The Legend of the Johnson Boys	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler	2:18
3.2	All the Good Times Are Past and Gone	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:34
3.3	George Alley’s F.F.V.	Lester Flatt	3:47
3.4	This Land Is Your Land	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:28
3.5	Philadelphia Lawyer	Lester Flatt	2:47
3.6	Sun’s Gonna Shine in My Back Door Some Day	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:20
3.7	Hear the Wind Blow	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	3:09
3.8	I’ll Be No Man’s Wife	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler, Jake Tullock	2:38
3.9	McKinley’s Gone	Lester Flatt	2:35
3.10	Nine Pound Hammer	Lester Flatt	2:26
3.11	Ellen Smith	Lester Flatt	2:29
3.12	Life of Trouble	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Curly Seckler	2:43
3.13	The Ballad of Jed Clampett	Lester Flatt	2:05
3.14	Hard Travelin’	Lester Flatt	2:43
3.15	The Wreck of the Old 97	Lester Flatt	2:32
3.16	Ninety‐Nine Years Is Almost for Life	Lester Flatt	3:27
3.17	Over the Hills to the Poorhouse	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Josh Graves, Jake Tullock	3:21
3.18	New York Town	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Josh Graves, Jake Tullock	2:44
3.19	Dixie Home	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Josh Graves, Jake Tullock	2:28
3.20	Pastures of Plenty	Lester Flatt	2:40
3.21	Bound to Ride	Lester Flatt	2:08
3.22	When I Left East Virginia	Lester Flatt	3:49
3.23	Drowned in the Deep Blue Sea	Lester Flatt	2:23
3.24	My Native Home	Lester Flatt	2:15
3.25	Coal Miner’s Blues	Lester Flatt	2:29
4.1	Pearl Pearl Pearl	Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt, Jake Tullock, Billy E. Powers	2:12
4.2	What About You	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Jake Tullock, Billy E. Powers	2:34
4.3	Rambling Gambler	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Jake Tullock, Billy E. Powers	3:03
4.4	Mama Don’t Allow	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Jake Tullock, Billy E. Powers	2:28
4.5	I’m Troubled	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Jake Tullock, Billy E. Powers	2:16
4.6	My Saro Jane	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Jake Tullock, Billy E. Powers	2:48
4.7	The Train That Carried My Girl From Town	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Jake Tullock	2:24
4.8	Little Birdie	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Jake Tullock, Billy E. Powers	2:38
4.9	You Are My Flower	Lester Flatt	2:31
4.10	Po’ Rebel Soldier	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Jake Tullock, Billy E. Powers	2:07
4.11	Old Joe Clark	Al Gottlieb	4:02
4.12	Sally Goodin	Al Gottlieb	3:47
4.13	Black Mountain Rag	Al Gottlieb	3:56
4.14	Billy in the Lowground	Al Gottlieb	3:56
4.15	Twinkle Little Star	Al Gottlieb	4:02
4.16	Old Fiddler	Al Gottlieb	4:05
4.17	Soldier’s Joy	Lester Flatt, Al Gottlieb	4:09
4.18	Georgia Shuffle	Al Gottlieb	5:01
4.19	Golden Slippers	Al Gottlieb	4:37
4.20	Tennessee Wagner	Al Gottlieb	4:00
5.1	Salty Dog Blues	Lester Flatt	5:24
5.2	Durham’s Reel	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	1:16
5.3	Down the Road	Lester Flatt	2:07
5.4	Rainbow	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	1:12
5.5	Big Ball in Brooklyn	Lester Flatt	1:58
5.6	Flint Hill Special	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	2:16
5.7	Dig a Hole in the Meadow	Lester Flatt	2:58
5.8	I Hung My Head and Cried	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	2:40
5.9	Hot Corn, Cold Corn	Lester Flatt	2:43
5.10	Little Darlin’ Pal of Mine	Lester Flatt	1:37
5.11	You Can’t Stop Me From Dreaming	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	1:17
5.12	Footprints in the Snow	Lester Flatt	3:10
5.13	The Martha White Theme	Lester Flatt	1:07
5.14	I Wonder Where You Are Tonight	Lester Flatt	3:49
5.15	Old McDonald Had a Farm	Jake Tullock	2:27
5.16	He Will Set Your Fields on Fire	Lester Flatt	2:48
5.17	Let the Church Roll On	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Jake Tullock	2:31
5.18	Wildwood Flower	Jake Tullock	2:02
5.19	Hear That Whistle Blow (A Hundred Miles)	Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt, Jake Tullock	3:33
5.20	Fiddle and Banjo	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	1:33
5.21	Old Leather Britches	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	2:41
5.22	Ballad of Jed Clampett	Lester Flatt	2:09
5.23	Yonder Stands Little Maggie	Lester Flatt	2:12
5.24	Reuben	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	2:49
5.25	Mama Blues	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	1:47
5.26	I Know What It Means to Be Lonesome	Lester Flatt	2:17
5.27	Foggy Mountain Rock	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	1:48
5.28	Take This Hammer	Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, Lester Flatt, Jake Tullock	2:44
5.29	McKinley’s Gone	Lester Flatt	2:38
5.30	Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms	Lester Flatt	1:35
5.31	Gotta Travel On	Merle Travis, Lester Flatt	3:27
5.32	Mountain Dew	Merle Travis, Lester Flatt	2:26

Source: MusicBrainz release group 43c7520e-8295-4b20-93cf-8507cb8bcbb1 (CC0). Cover: Cover Art Archive.