Title from program booklet.

Compact disc.

Tracks 13-17 are previously unissued alternate takes by Boggs of 3 songs issued on Lonesome Ace. Tracks 18-21 are by the Shepherd Brothers.

Program notes by Greil Marcus & Jon Pankake, & notes on the individual recordings by Barry O'Connell, including song texts (60 p., ills., ports.) in booklet bound in container.

Tracks 1-12 originally issued on 78 rpm discs: tracks 1-8 in 1927 on Brunswick 118 & 131-133, tracks 9-12 in 1929 on Lonesome Ace 21403--21406.

Sugar baby

Down south blues

Country blues

Sammie, where have you been so long?

Danville girl

Pretty Polly

New prisoner's song

Hard luck blues

Lost love blues

Will sweethearts know each other there?

Old rub alcohol blues

False hearted lover's blues

[alternate takes] Lost love blues (take 1) ; Will sweethearts know each other there? (take 1) ; Old rub alcohol blues ; Lost love blues (take 2) ; Will sweethearts know each other there? (take 2).

Peddler and his wife ; Hard for to love / Hayes Shepherd ["The Appalachia Vagabond"]

Bound steel blues ; Aunt Jane blues / Bill Shepherd.

205 Revenant

118 Brunswick

131-133 Brunswick

21403--21406 Lonesome Ace

Folk songs, English > United States.

Ballads, English > United States.