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Close to Home: Old Time Music from Mike Seeger's Collection, 1952 – 1967 CD $16
Smithsonian Folkways, 1997.

A collector's choice: 34 different old-time Southern soloists and groups, including Sara & Maybelle Carter, Arthur Smith, Dock Boggs, and Hattie and Ernest Stoneman, recorded by Mike on visits in the rural South.

  1. In the Sweet Bye and Bye - Elizabeth Cotten
  2. Tie Your Dog, Sally Gal - Will Adam
  3. Banjo Instrumental - J.C. "Cleve" Sutphin
  4. Lost Train Blues - V.L. Sutphin
  5. Shortening Bread - V.L. And Cleve Sutphin
  6. The Train That Carried My Girl from Town - V.L. And Cleve Sutphin
  7. Old Gambling Man - J.J. Neece
  8. John Henry - J.J. Neece, Cleve and V.L. Sutphin
  9. Shout Little Lulu - Louise Foreacre
  10. He Will Set Your Fields on Fire - Kilby Snow
  11. Gather in the Golden Grain - Ernest V. and Hattie Stoneman
  12. Going to Lay Down My Burdens - Elizabeth White and Gideon Craig
  13. John Henry - Lesley Riddle
  14. Pretty Fair Damsel - Clarence Ashley
  15. It's These Hard Times - Pearly "Grandma" Davis
  16. Old Time Reel - Pearly "Grandma" Davis and Oliver Davis
  17. Jackson Schottische - A.L. Hall
  18. Lone Prairie - Wade Ward
  19. Molly Put the Kettle On - Wade Ward
  20. Last Gold Dollar - Edsel Martin and Bill McElreath
  21. John Henry - Bill and Jean Davis
  22. Three Nights Drunk (Our Goodman) - The Blue Ridge Buddies with E.C. and Orna Ball
  23. Jimmie Sutton - The Blue Ridge Buddies with E.C. and Orna Ball
  24. Going to Lay Down My Old Guitar - Snuffy Jenkins and Ira Dimmery
  25. Black Mountain Rag - The McGee Brothers and "Fiddlin'" Arthur Smith
  26. A Talk on the World - Clyde Lewis
  27. Red Wing - Lost John Ray and Walt Koken
  28. Leather Britches - Eck Robertson and the New Lost City Ramblers
  29. Blackberry Blossom - Sherman Lawson
  30. Alabama Gals - Emmett Cole
  31. Old Joe Clark - George Landers
  32. Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs
  33. Queen Sally - Archie Sturgill
  34. Poor Orphan - Kate Peters Sturgill
  35. My Virginia Rose - Scott Boatright
  36. I'm Leaving You - Sara and Maybelle Carter
  37. He Said If You Love Me, Feed My Sheep - The Stancer Quartet
  38. I Would Not Live Always - Clarence Ferrill

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