Volume Ten

East Virginia Blues

Folk music from Appalachia, rooted in hymnody and parlor ballads, brought the sound of black and white America together proving to be a solid foundation for what later became honky tonk and literally prefiguring rock ‘n’ roll.

Track Listing:

1. The Carter Family The East Virginia Blues
2. The Monroe Brothers Will The Circle Be Unbroken
3. Wade Mainer & Zeke Morris Down In The Willow
4. Blue Sky Boys Mary Of The Wild Moor
5. The Carter Family Wildwood Flower
6. Vernon Dalhart Prisoner’s Song
7. Hall Brothers Constant Sorrow
8. Blue Sky Boys In The Hills Of Roane County
9. Rouse Brothers Orange Blossom Special
10. G.B. Grayson & Henry Whitter Tom Dooley
11. Wade Mainer & Zeke Morris Short Life And It’s Trouble
12. J. E. Mainer’s Mountaineers The Longest Train
13. Bud Billings & Carson Robison Birmingham Jail
14. Vernon Dalhart Wreck Of The Old 97
15. Jimmie Rodgers Frankie And Johnny
16. Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys Mule Skinner Blues
17. Jimmie Davis She’s A Hum Dum Dinger (From Dingersville) Part 2
18. Riley Puckett Nobody’s Business
19. Cliff Carlisle That Nasty Swing
20. Roy Shaffer The Matchbox Blues
21. Gene Autry Do Right Daddy Blues
22. The Lone Star Cowboys Just Because
23. The Delmore Brothers Brown’s Ferry Blues
24. Jimmie Rodgers In the Jailhouse #2
25. Ernest Tubb The TB Is Whipping Me