1935-1939: The Early Recordings

Original Release Date:  March 24, 2009

Track Listing

• 1. Ship Sailing Now
• 2. This World Is Not My Home
• 3. Maple on the Hill
• 4. Take Me in the Lifeboat
• 5. Seven and a Half
• 6. New Curly Headed Baby
• 7. Let Her Go God Bless Her
• 8. City on the Hill
• 9. The Longest Train
• 10. Writer a Letter to Mother
• 11. Lights in the Valley
• 12. Goin' Back West in the Fall
• 13. New Lost Train Blues
• 14. Number 111
• 15. I Am Walking in the Light
• 16. Don't Cause Mother's Hair to Turn Grey
• 17. When I Reach My Home Eternal
• 18. Fatal Wreck of the Bus
• 19. Behind the Parlor Door
• 20. Satisfied
• 21. One to Love Me
• 22. On a Cold Winter Night
• 23. John Henry Was a Little Boy
• 24. The Old and Faded Picture
• 25. Take Me Home to the Sweet Sunny South
• 26. Walk That Lonesome Valley
• 27. Got a Home in That Rock
• 28. Johnson's Old Grey Mule
• 29. Won't Be Worried Long
• 30. Goin' Down the River of Jordan
• 31. Why Do You Bob Your Hair Girls?
• 32. Watermelon on the Vine
• 33. We Can't Be Darlings Anymore
• 34. Tell Mother I'll Meet Her
• 35. In a Little Village Churchyard
• 36. Come Back to Your Dobie Shack
• 37. Just as the Sun Went Down
• 38. What Would You Give in Exchange
• 39. A Leaf from the Sea
• 40. Brown Eyes
• 41. Maple on the Hill, Pt. 2 (Driftin' to That Happy Home)
• 42. Going to Georgia
• 43. Nobody's Darlin But Mine
• 44. Mother Came to Get Her Boy from Jail
• 45. Where the Red, Red Roses Grow
• 46. Cradle Days
• 47. Gathering Flowers from the Hills
• 48. My Mother Is Waiting
• 49. If I Could Hear My Mother
• 50. Nobody's Darling on Earth
• 51. Shake Hands with Mother
• 52. They Said My Lord Was a Devil
• 53. Won't Somebody Pal with Me
• 54. Hop Along Peter
• 55. Just One Way to the Pearly Gates
• 56. Dear Daddy You're Gone
• 57. Been Foolin' Me Baby
• 58. I'll Be a Friend of Jesus
• 59. Cowboy's Pony in Heaven
• 60. Little Birdie
• 61. Always Been a Rambler
• 62. Starting Life Anew with You
• 63. Little Rosebuds
• 64. Train Carry My Girl Back Home
• 65. In the Land Beyond the Blue
• 66. A Change All Around
• 67. Short Life and It's Trouble
• 68. Dying Boy's Prayer
• 69. Free Again
• 70. Answer to "Two Little Rosebuds"
• 71. I'm Not Turning Backward
• 72. Riding on That Train Forty-Five
• 73. Little Maggie
• 74. Little Pal
• 75. Down in the Willow
• 76. My Wife Went Away and Left Me
• 77. Railroad Blues
• 78. Over the Hills in Carolina
• 79. Budded Roses
• 80. What Makes Him Do It
• 81. My Little Red Ford
• 82. I Am Dreaming of Mother
• 83. Cotton Mill Blues
• 84. Blue Days
• 85. No Place Like Home
• 86. Homeless Child
• 87. Where Is My Mama?
• 88. What a Friend We Have in Mother
• 89. My Heart Is Broken for You
• 90. Answer to Maple on the Hill, Pt. 2
• 91. Lonesome Valley, Pt. 2
• 92. Walkin' in My Sleep
• 93. Father, Dear Father
• 94. I Shall Not Be Moved
• 95. Do You Want to See Mother Again?
• 96. Darling Think What You Have Done
• 97. The Story of Charlie Lawson [Version]
• 98. The Great Speckled Bird [New Version]
• 99. Just How Pretty You Smile
• 100. Married Woman Blues

Credits

• J.E. Mainer: Fiddle, Vocals
• Wade Mainer: Banjo, Harmonica, Vocals, Duet
• Homer "Pappy" Sherrill: Fiddle
• Steve Ledford: Fiddle, Vocals
• Wiley Morris: Guitar, Vocals, Duet
• Zeke Morris: Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals, Duet
• J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers: Spoken Word
• Chris Thomas King: Transfers
• Clarence Todd: Banjo, Fiddle, Guitar, Vocals
• Leonard Stokes: Mandolin, Vocals
• George Morris: Guitar, Vocals
• Pat Harrison: Liner Notes
• Daddy John Love: Guitar, Vocals
• Ollie Bunn: Banjo, Fiddle, Guitar, Vocals
• Norwood Tew: Vocals
• Junior Misenheimer: Banjo
• Howard Bumgardner: Guitar, Vocals
• Homer Sherrill: Fiddle, Vocals
• Harold Christy: Guitar
• Harold Blackweller: Vocals
• Beacham Blackweller: Guitar, Vocals