Tracks1.1 In the Pines - Dock Walsh 1.2 Mountain Sweetheart - Red Fox Chasers 1.3 Mistreated Blues - Carolina Buddies 1.4 Johnson City Hop - Carolina Ramblers String Band 1.5 Are You Sure? - Dixon Brothers ; Mutt Evans 1.6 The Rose with a Broken Stem - North Carolina Cooper Boys 1.7 Jack of Diamonds - Ben Jarrell 1.8 Otto Wood - Cranford ; Thompson 1.9 Richmond Square - the Highlanders 1.10 Will the Weaver - Charlie Parker ; Mack Woolbright 1.11 Lindy - Proximity String Quartet 1.12 Working on the Railroad - Blankenship Family 1.13 Carolina's Best - the Grady Family 1.14 Banjo Sam - Wilmer Watts ; the Lonely Eagles 1.15 New River Train - Cauley Family 1.16 Little Bunch of Roses - Clarence Greene 1.17 That Lonesome Valley - Carolina Ramblers String Band 1.18 Honeysuckle Rag - Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers 1.19 A Pretty Gal's Love - Whitter-Hendley-Small 1.20 Tom Dooley - Grayson ; Whitter 1.21 The Longest Train - Mainer's Mountaineers 1.22 Sweet Freedom - E.R. Nance Family with Clarence Dooley 1.23 Sunny Home in Dixie - Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers 1.24 My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains - Carolina Tar Heels
NotesHere are 24 tracks of rare music by the fiddlers, string bands and family singers of the "Tar Heel State," recorded 1926-1936 during a pivotal decade of unparalleled artistic achievement. You'll hear classic fiddle and banjo tunes, folk songs and murder ballads, gospel hymns and mountain blues, all performed by the state's top musical talent of the era. The music is digitally remastered, with most tracks appearing on CD for the first time. Includes a 24-page, full-color booklet containing rare vintage photographs, many unpublished until now, and extensive historical notes on the era, the songs, and the musicians.