Originally released by Folkways Records and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1956-1993.
Compact disc.
Program notes by Lee Michael Dempsey and Jeff Place, with bibliography and discography (31 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
Various performers.
Contents:
White House blues (Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys) (1:58) -- Our last goodbye (the Johnson Mountain Boys) (2:32) -- When he reached down his hand for me (Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys) (2:44) -- Tiny broken heart (Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard) (3:01) -- New camptown races (Red Allen, Frank Wakefield, and the Kentuckians) (2:31) -- Suzanne (Harley Allen-Mike Lilly Band) (2:37) -- I heard my mother call my name in prayer (the Nashville Grass) (3:07) -- Teardrops in my eyes (the Friendly City Playboys) (2:26) -- Cumberland Gap (Snuffy Jenkins) (1:31) -- Live and let live (Red Allen and the Kentuckians) (2:44) -- The world is waiting for the sunrise (Roger Sprung and Doc Watson) (2:37) -- Hello city limits (Hugh Moore) (2:19) -- (Legend of the) Brown Mountain light (the Country Gentlemen) (2:32) -- Lonesome road blues (Roni Stoneman) (1:10) -- The train that carried my girl from town (Doc Watson) (2:16) -- The little girl and the dreadful snake (the New Lost City Ramblers) (3:29) -- Little birdie (the Stanley Brothers) (2:37) -- Rabbit in a log (the Stanley Brothers) (2:20) -- Grey eagle (David and Billie Ray Johnson) (2:47) -- Wayfaring stranger (Cullen Gaylean [i.e. Galyean] and the Virginia Mountain Boys) (5:07) -- Billy in the lowground (the Lonesome Strangers) (1:00) -- The rebel girl (Hazel Dickens) (2:57) -- Train 45 (Smiley Hobbs) (2:19) -- 'Neath that cold grey tomb of stone (the Lilly Brothers and Don Stover) (3:03) -- Get up John (Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys) (2:36)