The Vanguard Years

Original Release Date:  November 14, 1995

Track Listing

• 1. Rambling Hobo
• 2. Train That Carried My Girl From Town
• 3. The Coo Coo Bird
• 4. Reuben's Train
• 5. Hicks' Farewell
• 6. Grandfather's Clock
• 7. Beaumont Rag
• 8. Farewell Blues
• 9. Footprints in the Snow
• 10. Intoxicated Rat
• 11. Talk About Suffering
• 12. Omie Wise
• 13. Country Blues
• 14. Black Mountain Rag
• 15. Doc's Guitar
• 16. Deep River Blues
• 17. Muskrat
• 18. Dream of the Miner's Child
• 19. Rising Sun Blues
• 20. Otto Wood the Bandit
• 21. Little Sadie
• 22. Windy and Warm
• 23. Tennessee Stud
• 24. Blue Railroad Train
• 25. Down in the Valley to Pray
• 26. Dill Pickle Rag
• 27. The F.F. V.
• 28. Childhood Play
• 29. Sreamline Cannonball
• 30. Old Camp Meeting Time
• 31. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
• 32. The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band
• 33. New River Train
• 34. Rank Stranger
• 35. Corrina, Corrina
• 36. What Does the Deep Sea Say
• 37. There's More Pretty Girls Than One
• 38. Way Downtown
• 39. Brown's Ferry Blues
• 40. Spike Driver Blues
• 41. Roll on Buddy
• 42. I Am a Pilgrim
• 43. Wabash Cannonball
• 44. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
• 45. The Lawson Family Murder
• 46. The Cuckoo
• 47. Alabama Bound
• 48. Bye Bye Bluebells
• 49. Kinfolks in Carolina
• 50. San Antonio Rose
• 51. Blow Your Whistle Freight Train
• 52. Cannonball Rag
• 53. I Am a Pilgrim
• 54. Arrangement Blues
• 55. I Got a Pig at Home in the Pen
• 56. My Rough and Rowdy Ways
• 57. Deep River Blues
• 58. Banks of the Ohio
• 59. A-Roving on a Winter's Night
• 60. Southbound
• 61. Memphis Blues
• 62. Salt Creek/Bill Cheatham
• 63. Brown's Ferry Blues
• 64. Windy and Warm

Credits

• Clarence White: Performer
• Merle Travis: Performer
• Doc Watson: Guitar, Arranger, Vocals, Adaptation
• Dock Boggs: Composer
• Don Stover: Performer
• Clint Howard: Performer
• John Cooke: Photography, Inlay Photography
• Mary Katherine Aldin: Producer, Liner Notes, Annotation
• Gaither Carlton: Arranger, Performer
• Mitch Greenhill: Transfers
• Arnold Watson: Performer
• Merle Watson: Performer
• Captain Jeff Zaraya: Engineer, Mixing
• Fred Price: Performer
• Jim McGuire: Inlay Photography
• Drew Cartwright: Package Design
• Clarence Ashley: Performer
• Dan Seeger: Cover Photo, Inlay Photography