Guitar Rags & A Too Fast Past

Original Release Date:  July 15, 1994

Track Listing

• 1. You'll Be Lonesome, Too [*]
• 2. The Steppin' Out Kind
• 3. When Mussolini Laid His Pistol Down [**]
• 4. Two Time Annie [**]
• 5. What Will I Do?
• 6. So Long, Farewell, Goodbye [*]
• 7. God Put a Rainbow on the Clouds [*]
• 8. It May Be Too Late
• 9. Be on Your Way
• 10. Rainin' on the Mountain
• 11. Give Me Your Hand
• 12. Out on the Open Range
• 13. Ridin' Down to Santa Fe
• 14. Hominy Grits
• 15. That's All
• 16. Boogie Woogie Boy [Alternate Take]
• 17. Boogie Woogie Boy
• 18. I Used to Work in Chicago
• 19. Merle's Buck Dance
• 20. Steel Guitar Stomp
• 21. I Used to Work in Chicago
• 22. I'm All Thru Trusting You
• 23. Weary Lonesome Me
• 24. No Vacancy
• 25. Cincinnati Lou
• 26. Two Is a Couple (And Three Is a Crowd)
• 27. What a Shame
• 28. T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)
• 29. Missouri
• 30. Divorce Me C.O.D.
• 31. A Fool at the Steering Wheel
• 32. Nine Pound Hammer
• 33. Sixteen Tons [False Start]
• 34. Sixteen Tons
• 35. Dark as a Dungeon
• 36. Over by Number Nine
• 37. That's All
• 38. John Henry
• 39. Muskrat
• 40. I Am a Pilgrim
• 41. This World Is Not My Home
• 42. The Covered Wagon Rolled Right Along
• 43. (Oh Why, Oh Why, Did I Ever Leave) Wyoming
• 44. A Little Too Fer
• 45. When Rosie Riccoola Do the Hoola Ma Boola
• 46. Steel Guitar Rag
• 47. Honey Bunch
• 48. Sweet Temptation
• 49. Don't Hand Me That Old Line
• 50. Steel Guitar Rag
• 51. Honey Bunch
• 52. So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed
• 53. Alimony Bound
• 54. Follow Thru
• 55. Three Times Seven
• 56. I'm Sick and Tired of You, Little Darling
• 57. Sunshine's Back in Town
• 58. The Devil to Pay
• 59. Steel Guitar Rag
• 60. Lawdy, What a Gal
• 61. Sioux City Sue
• 62. Muskrat
• 63. Fat Gal [False Start]
• 64. Fat Gal
• 65. I Like My Chicken Fryin' Size
• 66. Merle's Boogie Woogie
• 67. Merle's Boogie Woogie [Alternate Take]
• 68. Dapper Dan
• 69. When My Baby Double Talks to Me
• 70. I'm Picking up the Pieces to My Heart
• 71. Information Please
• 72. Any Old Time
• 73. Kentucky Means Paradise
• 74. Leave My Honey Bee Alone
• 75. I'm a Natural Born Gamblin' Man
• 76. Get Along Blues
• 77. A Too Fast Past
• 78. Crazy Boogie
• 79. You Better Try Another Man
• 80. Deck of Cards
• 81. Wabash Cannonball
• 82. Blues Stay Away from Me
• 83. Philososphy
• 84. I Got a Mean Old Woman
• 85. I'm Picking up the Pieces to My Heart
• 86. Petticoat Fever
• 87. Start Even
• 88. Guitar Rag
• 89. Cane Bottom Chair
• 90. I'm Knee Deep in Trouble
• 91. Little Miss Sherlock Holmes
• 92. Too Much Sugar for a Dime
• 93. Spoonin' Moon
• 94. Trouble, Trouble
• 95. El Ren
• 96. Won'tcha Be My Baby
• 97. Dry Bread
• 98. Lost John Boogie
• 99. Deep South
• 100. Boogie in Minor
• 101. Let's Settle Down (To Runnin' Around Together)
• 102. Done Rovin'
• 103. Faithful Fool
• 104. Love Must Be Ketchin'
• 105. Kinfolks in Carolina
• 106. Kinfolks in Carolina
• 107. Rainy Day Feelin'
• 108. A Too Fast Past
• 109. Knee Deep in Trouble
• 110. Ain't That a Cryin' Shame
• 111. I'll See You in My Dreams
• 112. Cannonball Rag
• 113. I'll Have Myself a Ball
• 114. Bayou Baby
• 115. Green Cheese
• 116. Louisiana Boogie
• 117. Guitar Rag
• 118. Saturday Night Shuffle
• 119. The Waltz You Saved for Me
• 120. Crazy 'Bout You
• 121. Re-Enlistment Blues
• 122. Dance of the Golden Rod
• 123. Gambler's Guitar
• 124. Shut up and Drink Your Beer
• 125. Seminole Drag
• 126. Jolie Fille (Pretty Girl)
• 127. I Can't Afford the Coffee (I'm Tired of Drinking Weak Tea Blues)
• 128. Blue Bell
• 129. Memphis Blues
• 130. The Sheik of Araby
• 131. On a Bicycle Built for Two (Daisy Belle)
• 132. Black Diamond Blues
• 133. Blue Smoke [Remake]
• 134. Walking the Strings
• 135. Saturday Night Shuffle
• 136. Sleepy Time Gal
• 137. Tuck Me to Sleep (In My Old 'Tucky Home)
• 138. Rock-A-Bye Rock
• 139. Bugle Call Rag
• 140. Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine
• 141. Beer Barrel Polka
• 142. Trun My Picture Upside Down
• 143. If You Want It, I've Got It
• 144. Lazy River
• 145. Hunky Dory

Credits

• Roy Rogers: ?
• Chet Atkins: ?
• Gene Autry: ?
• Jimmie Davis: ?
• Tennessee Ernie Ford: Vocals
• Grandpa Jones: Guitar, Vocals
• Joe Maphis: Fiddle, Guitar
• Moon Mullican: Piano
• Tex Ritter: ?
• Hank Thompson: ?
• Merle Travis: Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Composer, Vocals, ?
• Kay Starr: Vocals
• Jerry Colonna: Vocals
• Alvino Rey: Guitar (Steel)
• Walter Brown: ?
• Annette Warren: ?
• Buddy Cole: Piano, Leader, ?
• Noel Boggs: Guitar (Steel)
• Jack Guthrie: ?
• Rose Lee Maphis: ?
• Hank Penny: Guitar (Rhythm), Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
• Cliffie Stone: Bass, Leader, Vocals, Choir, Chorus, Producer
• Ernest Tubb: ?
• Speedy West: Guitar (Steel)
• Johnny Bond: Guitar
• Tex Williams: ?
• Jack Pettis: Composer
• Danny Alguire: Trumpet
• Thom Bresh: ?
• Bill Brown: ?
• Georgia Brown: Vocals
• Smiley Burnette: Composer, ?
• Jimmy Dean: ?
• Colin Escott: Photography, Illustrations
• Henry Glover: Composer
• Roy Harte: Drums
• Bob Jones: Mastering, Disc Transfers, Metal Transfers
• Manny Klein: Trumpet
• Mary Lou: ?
• Clayton McMichen: ?
• Johnny Mercer: Vocals
• Ken Nelson: Producer
• Bruce Nemerov: Disc Transfers, Metal Transfers
• Wayne Raney: Composer
• Smokey Rogers: Guitar
• Tony Russell: Photography, Illustrations
• Elmer Schoebel: Composer
• Dick Stubbs: Guitar, ?
• Dale Warren: Bass
• John Weiss: Guitar
• Mark Wilder: Disc Transfers, Metal Transfers
• Al Williams: ?
• Allen Williams: Bass
• Lee Gillette: Producer
• Rich Kienzle: Liner Notes, Reissue Producer, Photography, Illustrations, Biographical Information
• Frank Messina: Accordion
• Billy Meyers: Composer
• Earl Joaquin Murphey: Guitar (Steel)
• Darol Rice: Clarinet
• Eugine Rogers: Bass
• Fred T. Tavares: Guitar (Steel)
• Larry Walsh: Disc Transfers, Metal Transfers
• Roy Bargy: Bass
• Charles K. Wolfe: Discography
• Montgomery Clift: ?
• Harold Hensley: Fiddle
• Eddie Kirk: Guitar (Rhythm), Leader, Vocals
• Billy Liebert: Piano, Accordion
• Pat Patterson: Piano, Choir, Chorus
• Jimmie Widener: Guitar
• Tex Atchison: Fiddle, Composer, Vocals, Choir, Chorus
• Carl Cotner: ?
• Carolina Cotton: ?
• Vic Davis: Piano
• Alton Delmore: Composer
• Rabon Delmore: Composer
• Bert Dodson: Bass
• Shug Fisher: Guitar
• Roy Lanham: Guitar, Vocals
• Texas Jim Lewis: ?
• Frankie Marvin: Guitar (Steel)
• Gene Mombeck: Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals
• Syd Nathan: Producer
• Paul Sells: Accordion
• Deuce Spriggins: Bass
• Wesley Tuttle: Guitar, Leader, Vocals
• Juanita Vastine: ?
• Hank Penny & His Radio Cowboys: ?
• Patrick Milligan: Discography
• Phil Wells: Tape Comparison
• Les Leverett: Photography, Illustrations
• R.A. Andreas: Photography, Illustrations
• Richard Weize: Reissue Producer, Research, Tape Research, Discography
• Nation: Composer
• Sylke Holtrop: Artwork
• Dave Sax: Reissue Producer, Research, Tape Comparison, Tape Research, Discography
• Gerd Weiler: Artwork
• Ike Everly: ?
• Joyce "Red" Murrell: Guitar, Choir, Chorus
• Donald "Dusty" Rhodes: Bass, Guitar (Steel)
• Joe Strand: Piano
• Larry Zwisohn: Discography
• Jimmy Pruett: Piano
• Jack Rivers: ?
• Edward Madden: Composer
• Leon Rusk: Composer
• Homer Escamelia: ?
• Max Fidler: Fiddle
• Arthur Douglas "Doug" Dalton: Mandolin, Vocals
• Milton Curtis "Muddy" Berry: Drums
• David Stewart: Photography, Illustrations
• Burt Lancaster: ?
• Tom Romersa: Drums
• Herman "The Hermit" Snyder: ?
• Margie Ann Warren: Fiddle
• Arthur Wenzel: Accordion
• Dale Evans: ?
• Jo Ella Wright: Piano
• Wiley Fox: ?
• Jack Tucker: ?
• Marilyn Tuttle: ?
• Eddie Cletro: ?
• Joel Duroe: Drums
• Charlie Linville: Fiddle
• George Bamby: ?
• Harry "Slim" Duncan: ?
• Leodie Jackson: Guitar (Steel)
• Roy Ball: ?
• Alan H. Barker: Bass
• Bunnie Mullins Baugh: ?
• Paul A. Bigsby: ?
• Blackie Case: ?
• Virginia Cushman: Trumpet, ?
• Pierre Danielou: Photography, Illustrations
• Judy Dell: ?
• Theodore Morse: Composer
• Larry DePaul: Accordion
• Hardy Dorgaten: Photo Restoration
• Pat Travis Eatherly: Photography, Illustrations
• Quilla Hugh Freeman: Guitar, Leader
• Betsy Gay: ?
• Ossie J. Godson: Piano
• Harlan Ray "Fuzzy" Gregory: ?
• June "Judy" Hayden: Vocals
• Robbie Hogans: ?
• B.W. Johnson: ?
• Lazy Jim: ?
• Rivers Lewis: Guitar (Rhythm)
• Margie Linville: ?
• Sleepy Marlin: ?
• Phil F. Marx Jr.: Guitar (Steel)
• Jack McTaggart: Trumpet
• Hartle Patterson: Bass
• Bert Phillips: ?
• Kay Phillips: ?
• Joseph Pieracci: Photography, Illustrations
• Mose Rager: ?
• John Alan Reinhardt: Bass
• Betty Lou Morgan Robinson: ?
• Robert Roy: Fiddle
• Tommy Sargent: Guitar (Rhythm)
• Denny Slowfoot: ?
• George Tracy: Harmonica
• Henry VanWormer: Photography, Illustrations
• Bucky Yates: ?
• Agapito "Pete" Martinez: Guitar (Steel)