In this CD, listen to 34 of these long-buried selections, including My Home is in the Smoky Mountain, Sourwood Mountain, Don't Forget Me Little Darling and On Big Pigeon. Also included is a 40-page booklet with all the song lyrics, historical photos, and authoritative essays on the history of mountain music. Available exclusively from Great Smoky Mountains Association.
Track list:
- My Home is in the Smoky Mountain (John Hannah)
- Down in the Willow Garden (Bessie Rabb)
- Bonaparte's Retreat (Willis & Dexter Bumgarner)
- Come, All You Young Ladies (Myrtle Conner)
- I Started Out a-Courting (Jack Johnson)
- Sourwood Mountain (Cataloochee Trio)
- The Ramshackle Shack (Bill Moore & Vic Peterson)
- Going Down This Road Feeling Bad (John Davis & Shorty Smith)
- Kitty Wells (Myrtle Conner)
- Crying Holy Unto the Lord (Bill Moore's Quartet)
- Unidentified Guitar Playing (Probably Bill Moore)
- My Curly-Headed Baby (Carl Messer)
- The Girl I Love Don't Pay Me No Mind (John Hannah)
- John Henry (Leatherman Brothers)
- Cackling Hen (Bill Moore, Paul Buchanan & Hardy Crisp)
- That's How I Got My Start (Bill Moore)
- Don't Forget Me, Little Darling (Clarence Sutton)
- Pretty Little Miss (Myrtle Conner)
- Chinese Breakdown (Herman Smith & David Proffitt)
- Mule Skinner Blues (Unnamed Company - 15 members)
- Ticklish Rubin (Jim Sutton)
- The Big Bend Killing (Helen Gunter)
- Polly Put the Kettle On (Willis & Dexter Bumgarner)
- Conversation With Dead (Zeb & Winfred Hannah)
- Paper of Pins (Myrtle Conner)
- Boston Girl (John Hannah)
- The Dying Cowboy (Clarence Sutton)
- Cripple Creek (Chub Karns)
- Ground Hog (Unnamed Company - 15 members)
- Up On Big Pigeon (Boyd Strickland)
- John Henry (Unidentified Performers)
- Driving Down the Highway (Robert Ray)
- Little Rosewood Casket (Myrtle Conner)
- On Top of Old Smoky (Betty Messer)