Deep Tracks 66

1. I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky (take 2)-Bill Monroe
2. Long Journey Home-Lilly Brothers
3. Rocky Top-Lookout Mountain Boys
4. Singing All Day and Dinner On The Ground-Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys
5. Whitehouse Blues-Merle Travis & Joe Maphis
6. Weary Lonesome Blues-Roy Cobb and the Coachmen
7. Little Maggie – Josh Graves
8. I'll Be Going To Heaven Sometimes-Flatt & Scruggs
9. Prisoner's Song-Vern & Ray
10. Midnight Special-Bill Emerson And Cliff Waldron
11. It's Mighty Dark To Travel-Walter Hensley
12. On And On-Ted Lundy & the Southern Mountain Boys
13. Sally Goodin-Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
14. Sitting On Top Of The World-Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys
15. My Cabin In Caroline-Osborne Brothers
16. Bending The Strings-Allen Shelton
17. Are You Lost In Sin-Cliff Waldron
18. I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out of Jail-Red Allen Frank Wakefield and Good Ol Boys
19. Tenbrooks And Mollie-Joe Maphis & Rose Lee Maphis
20. Cryin' Holy Unto The Lord-Red White
21. Nine Pound Hammer-Doc Watson
22. Ridin' That Midnight Train-Earl Scruggs
23. Look For Me-J. D. Crowe & the Kentucky Mountain Boys
24. Old Time Religion-Larry Richardson
25. Just A Little Talk With Jesus-Stanley Brothers
26. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms-Lester Flatt
27. Mule Skinner Blues-Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
28. Will The Circle Be Unbroken-Curly Ray Cline
29. Swing Low Sweet Chariot-Curly Seckler
30. Big River-Dan Crary
31. Pretty Polly-Earl Taylor & Jim McCall

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I always considered bluegrass, hillbilly, and traditional country music guilty pleasures. My wife mocked me endlessly about being a Jew that listens to hillbilly gospel. If listen closely you can hear what I hear and that is the blues and I like the blues. Cracker blues but blues nonetheless.

Life was certainly challenging for poor rural whites in the antebellum south. The country and sacred songs heard are mostly rooted in the balladry of the late 19th century and the dance culture that abounded in the South. Shit. It's not like they had cable. But what they did have were stringed instruments and they also understood that if you put enough strings and voices together you could play a dance and make money.

What resonates is the realness of these artists. Most lived and died in honky tonks and bars. These were men and women that loved, fought, and drank too much. They got strung out on dope and stabbed each other in the back. It was a culture of honor and subterfuge; of subterranean provincialism and otherworldly spirituality. They fucked and killed one another. They sanctified nature and God's beauty and they were doomed to abject poverty. This compilation reflects these people. And I like 'em. They represent something unique to America that we can claim as our own.

Most of this music came through some other great blogs including Friends of Old Time Music: http://fobgm.blogspot.com. Check it out.