# | Track | Artist/Composer | Duration |
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1. | The Coo | Coo Bird | |
2. | On the Road Again | Memphis Jug Band | |
3. | The Panama Limited | Washington White | |
4. | Indian War Whoop | Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers | |
5. | 'Tain't Nobody Business If I Do (Part 1) | Frank Stokes | |
6. | K. C. Railroad Blues | Andrew and Jim Baxter | |
7. | I Am Bound for the Promised Land | Alfred G. Karnes | |
8. | Cottonfield Blues (Part 2) | Garfield Akers | |
9. | I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground | Bascom Lamar Lunsford | |
10. | Down on Penny's Farm | Bentley Boys | |
11. | Greenback Dollar | Weems String Band | |
12. | Tallahatchie River Blues | Mattie Delaney | |
13. | Walk Right In | Cannon's Jug Stompers | |
14. | Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow | The Carter Family | |
15. | Old Dog Blue | Jim Jackson | |
16. | Bayou Teche Waltz | Columbus Fruge | |
17. | Cool Drink of Water Blues | Tommy Johnson | |
18. | Train on the Island | J. P. Nester |
# | Track | Artist/Composer | Duration |
---|---|---|---|
1. | My Heart Keeps Singing | Elder J. E. Burch | |
2. | Ninety | Nine Year Blues | |
3. | I Get My Whiskey from Rockingham | Earl Johnson and his Clodhoppers | |
4. | Death's Black Train Is Coming | Rev. J. M. Gates | |
5. | Waiting For A Train | Jimmie Rodgers | |
6. | Darling Where Have You Been So Long? | Tenneva Ramblers | |
7. | Rocky Road | Alabama Sacred Harp Singers | |
8. | Ma Blonde Est Partie | Amédée Breaux, Ophy Breaux and Cleoma Breaux | |
9. | Peg and Awl | Carolina Tar Heels | |
10. | Chocolate to the Bone | Barbecue Bob | |
11. | Down on Me | Eddie Head and His Family | |
12. | Prenez Courage | Cleoma Breaux with Joseph Falcon and Ophy Breaux | |
13. | Pickin' Off Peanuts | Dilly and His Dill Pickles | |
14. | Just Because | Nelstone's Hawaiians | |
15. | Dupree Blues | Willie Walker | |
16. | Ladies on the Steamboat | Burnett and Rutherford | |
17. | Mamma, 'Tain't Long Fo' Day | Blind Willie McTell |
# | Track | Artist/Composer | Duration |
---|---|---|---|
1. | Cecilia | Cuarteto Flores | |
2. | La Coquetera | Los Borinquenos | |
3. | Coconito | Guty Cárdenas Y Lencho | |
4. | Lovesick Blues | Emmett Miller | |
5. | Long Tall Mama | Big Bill Broonzy | |
6. | John Henry Blues | Two Poor Boys | |
7. | Mr. Tom Hughes' Town | Lead Belly | |
8. | Louis Collins | Mississippi John Hurt | |
9. | I Am the Light of the World | Blind Gary Davis | |
10. | Fifty Miles of Elbow Room | Rev. F. W. McGee | |
11. | Chant of the Eagle Dance | Hopi Indian Singers | |
12. | Hilo Hula (Hilo Hanakahi) | Mike Hanapi and Ilima Islanders | |
13. | If the River Was Whiskey | Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers | |
14. | Stackalee | Frank Hutchison | |
15. | The Wreck of the '97 | Ernest Stoneman | |
16. | Faded Coat of Blue | Buell Kazee | |
17. | Country Blues | Dock Boggs | |
18. | Sail Away Ladies | Uncle Dave Macon and His Fruit | |
19. | Sail Away Lady | Uncle Bunt Stephens | |
20. | Sallie Gooden | A.C. (Eck) Robertson | |
21. | Arkansas Traveler | Don Richardson |
# | Track | Artist/Composer | Duration |
---|---|---|---|
1. | Hard Time Blues | Lane Hardin | |
2. | Down the Dirt Road Blues | Charley Patton | |
3. | 3 Poor Boy, Long Ways from Home | Banjo Joe | |
4. | Hastings Street | Blind Blake and Charlie Spand | |
5. | See That My Grave's Kept Clean | Blind Lemon Jefferson | |
6. | Gonna Have 'Lasses in the Morning | Golden Melody Boys | |
7. | New Orleans Stop Time | Bumble Bee Slim and Memphis Minnie | |
8. | Prove It on Me Blues | Ma Rainey | |
9. | I'm Gonna Die with My Hammer in My Hand | Williamson Brothers and Curry | |
10. | Last Kind Words Blues | Geeshie Wiley | |
11. | Banjoreno | Dixieland Jug Blowers | |
12. | It's a Good Thing | Beale Street Sheiks (Frank Stokes and Dan Sane) | |
13. | Trust in God and Do the Right | Blind Willie Davis | |
14. | Someday Baby Blues | Sleepy John Estes | |
15. | Lonesome Road Blues | Sam Collins | |
16. | Future Blues | Willie Brown | |
17. | Bull Doze Blues | Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas" | |
18. | Brown Skin Gal (Down the Lane) | Massey Family | |
19. | Henry Lee | Dick Justice | |
20. | Old Country Rock | William Moore | |
21. | La Danseuse (The Dancer) | Delma Lachney and Blind Uncle Gaspard | |
22. | My Black Mama, Parts 1 & 2 | Son House | |
23. | Cypress Grove Blues | Skip James |
# | Track | Artist/Composer | Duration |
---|---|---|---|
1. | Cross Road Blues | Robert Johnson | |
2. | Mal Hombre | Lydia Mendoza | |
3. | Sunshine Special | Frenchy's String Band | |
4. | Old Jim Kinnane's | Robert Wilkins | |
5. | Les Blues De Voyage (Travel Blues) | Amédée Ardoin and Dennis McGee | |
6. | The Lost Child | Stripling Brothers | |
7. | I'm Gonna Cross the River of Jordan Some of These Days | Jaybird Coleman | |
8. | Tomi Tomi | The Aloha Serenaders featuring Sol K. Bright | |
9. | Sittin' on Top of the World | Mississippi Sheiks | |
10. | James Alley Blues | Richard 'Rabbit' Brown | |
11. | The Indian Tom Tom | Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band | |
12. | Blues in a Bottle | Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers | |
13. | Je Me Suis En Alle | Berthmost Montet and Joswell Dupuis | |
14. | Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground | Blind Willie Johnson | |
15. | E mama Ea | Sol Hoopii and His Novely Quartette | |
16. | Ghost Dance | Truett and George | |
17. | Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind on Jesus) | Roosevelt Graves and Brother | |
18. | Allons à Lafayette | Joseph Falcon | |
19. | Corrido De Joaquín Murrieta Parts 1 and 2 | Los Madrugadores | |
20. | Denomination Blues (Parts 1 & 2) | Washington Phillips |
Added on Thursday, April 27, 2017
American Epic: The Collection-- available digitally or as physical product--leads the way for a series of album releases accompanying the Lo-Max/PBS/BBC Arena film project 'American Epic' created by Allison McGourty, Duke Erikson and Directed by Bernard MacMahon.
American Epic is a journey across time to the birth of modern recording, when music scouts armed with cutting-edge recording technology captured the breadth of American music and discovered the artists that would shape our world.
The recordings they made of all the ethnic groups of America democratized the nation and gave a voice to everyone. Country singers in the Appalachians, Blues guitarists in the Mississippi Delta, Gospel preachers across the south, Cajun fiddlers in Louisiana, Tejano groups from the Texas Mexico border, Native American drummers in Arizona, and Hawaiian musicians were all recorded. It was the first time America heard itself.
American Epic: The Collection gathers 100 of these original recordings from the 1920s and 1930s in one five-disc set, restored to unprecedented levels of sonic fidelity. This is not 'remastering,' in the normal sense, but something closer to fine art restoration. The intent is not for people to marvel at the antiquity of these discs, but rather to experience them as vital, immediate performances that speak to us as directly as they did on the day they were recorded not simply great art for their time, but great art for all times.