Track Listing DISC 1: 1. American Roots Music Theme - Ricky Skaggs/Earl Scruggs/James Cotton/Marc & Ann Savoy (new recording) 2. Waiting For a Train - Jimmie Rodgers 3. Wildwood Flower - The Carter Family 4. Take Me Back to My Old Carolina Home - Uncle Dave Macon 5. Wabash Cannonball - Roy Acuff 6. That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine - Gene Autry 7. Sitting on Top of the World - Bob Wills 8. Uncle Pen - Bill Monroe 9. Salty Dog Blues - Flatt & Scruggs 10. This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie 11. Nine Pound Hammer - Merle Travis 12. Walking the Floor Over You - Ernest Tubb 13. If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time - Lefty Frizzell 14. Cold, Cold Heart - Hank Williams 15. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells 16. Black Mountain Rag - Doc Watson (new recording) 17. Earl's Breakdown - Earl Scruggs (new recording) 18. Little Maggie - Ralph Stanley (new recording) 19. Where Shades of Love Lie Deep - Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver (new recording) 20. Stomping Grounds - Bela Fleck & The Flecktones (new recording)
DISC 2: 1. King Biscuit Time Theme, The - James Cotton (new recording) 2. Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith 3. St. Louis Blues - Bessie Smith 4. Black Snake Moan - Blind Lemon Jefferson 5. Screamin' and Hollering the Blues - Charley Patton 6. Crossroad Blues - Robert Johnson 7. Death Letter Blues - Son House 8. Another Night to Cry - Lonnie Johnson 9. Foldin' Bed - Whistler's Jug Band 10. Boogie Woogie Dream - Albert Ammons/Pete Johnson 11. Bye Bye Bird - Sonny Boy Williamson 12. Shake For Me - Howlin' Wolf 13. Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters 14. Thrill Is Gone, The - B.B. King 15. Take a Little Walk With Me - Robert Lockwood Jr. (new recording) 16. Henry - Keb' Mo' (new recording)
DISC 3: 1. Joshua Fit de Battle - Fisk Jubilee Singers 2. Precious Lord Take My Hand - Thomas A. Dorsey 3. Blind Barnabus - Golden Gate Quartet 4. Down by the Riverside - Sister Rosetta Tharpe 5. Move on up a Little Higher - Mahalia Jackson 6. Sit Down Servant - The Staple Singers 7. Oh Happy Day - Edwin Hawkins 8. This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie 9. Goodnight Irene - Leadbelly 10. So Long It's Been Good to Know You - The Weavers 11. Soldier and the Lady, The - New Lost City Ramblers 12. John Henry - Mississippi John Hurt 13. If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song) - Peter, Paul & Mary 14. We Shall Overcome - The SNCC Freedom Singers/Pete Seeger 15. Times They Are a Changin', The - Bob Dylan
DISC 4: 1. Allons a LaFayette - Joe Falcon/Cleoma Breaux 2. Madame Atchen - Amede Ardoin/Dennis McGee 3. Port Arthur Blues - Dewey Balfa 4. I'm a Hog For You - Clifton Chenier 5. Dans la Louisianne - Marc & Ann Savoy (new recording) 6. Ossun Two Step - Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys (new recording) 7. Mal Hombre - Lydia Mendoza 8. Muchacha Bonita - Narcisco Martinez 9. Rosalito - Valerio Longoria (new recording) 10. Las Nubes - Little Joe & La Familia (new recording) 11. Ring of Fire - Mingo Saldivar (new recording) 12. Sorry Boy - Flaco Jimenez (new recording) 13. Yeibichei Song - Unidentified Performers 14. Traditional Powwow - Renzel Last Horse & Kiyaksa (new recording) 15. Jesus Loves Me - Everette Red Bear/Sandor Iron Rope (new recording) 16. Wounded Knee - Floyd Westerman (new recording) 17. Enchantment Song - R. Carlos Nakai (new recording) 18. Dance, The - Robert Mirabal
| Details | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Several performances have been newly recorded for the AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC series. Also includes a 56-page booklet with photos, an American Roots Music "timeline" as well as extensive track-by-track annotation. Compilation producers: Jim Brown, Sarah Cullen, Jeff Rosen, Richard Bauer. Includes liner notes by Robert Santelli plus song annotations by Robert Santelli, Charles Wolfe, Holly George-Warren, Alwxander Ewen, Manuel Pena and John Swenson. Digitally remastered by Alan Silverman (Arf Digital).
Editorial Reviews 4 out of 5 stars - ...An impressive collection, telling America's story quite accurately via context and song... Down Beat (05/01/2002)
...Features most of the genres key players and seminal songs...plus some archival rarities and some new traditionalist songs... Mojo (07/01/2002)
...A stripped-to-the-bone, primer to some of the most vital music of the 20th century... - Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly (11/16/2001)
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