Recordings 1927-1933

Tracklist

• CD 1: Recordings 1927–1928
• 1
  Soldier's Sweetheart
  3:08
• 2
  Sleep Baby Sleep
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Ben Dewberry's Final Run
  3:27
• 4
  Mother Was a Lady
  3:23
• 5
  Blue Yodel
  3:26
  3.5 ★
• 6
  Away Out on the Mountain
  3:20
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Dear Old Sunny South by the Sea
  2:47
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Treasures Untold
  3:06
• 9
  Brakeman's Blues
  3:12
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Sailor's Plea
  3:05
  4.0 ★
• 11
  In the Jailhouse Now
  3:20
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Blue Yodel #2
  3:20
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Memphis Yodel
  3:33
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Blue Yodel #3
  3:13
• 15
  My Old Pal
  3:06
  4.0 ★
• 16
  My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans
  3:04
  4.0 ★
• 17
  You and My Old Guitar
  3:00
• 18
  Daddy and Home
  2:58
  3.5 ★
• 19
  My Little Lady
  3:06
• 20
  Lullaby Yodel
  3:13
• 21
  Never No Mo' Blues
  2:43
  5.0 ★
• 22
  My Carolina Sunshine Girl
  2:59
• 23
  Blue Yodel #4
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• CD 2: Recordings 1928–1929
• 1
  Waiting for a Train
  2:47
  4.0 ★
• 2
  I'm Lonely and Blue
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Desert Blues
  2:47
• 4
  Any Old Time
  2:48
• 5
  Blue Yodel No.5
  2:34
• 6
  High Powered Mama
  2:58
• 7
  I'm Sorry We Met
  2:21
• 8
  Everybody Does It in Hawaii
  2:51
• 9
  Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues
  2:53
• 10
  Train Whistle Blues
  2:59
• 11
  Jimmie's Texas Blues
  2:50
• 12
  Frankie and Johnnie
  2:53
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Whisper Your Mother's Name
  3:27
• 14
  The Land of My Boyhood Dreams
  2:37
• 15
  Blue Yodel #6
  3:08
• 16
  Yodeling Cowboy
  3:14
• 17
  My Rough and Rowdy Ways
  2:33
• 18
  I've Ranged, I've Roamed, I've Traveled
  2:52
• 19
  Hobo Bill's Last Ride
  2:41
• 20
  Mississippi River Blues
  2:37
• 21
  Nobody Knows but Me
  2:40
• 22
  Anniversary Blue Yodel
  2:56
• 23
  She Was Happy Till She Met You
  2:46
• CD 3: Recordings 1929–1931
• 1
  Blue Yodel No.11
  3:01
• 2
  A Drunkard's Child
  3:21
• 3
  That's Why I'm Blue
  2:19
• 4
  Why Did You Give Me Your Love?
  2:36
• 5
  My Blue Eyed Jane
  2:48
• 6
  Why Should I Be Lonely?
  3:10
• 7
  Moonlight and Skies
  3:00
• 8
  Pistol Packin' Papa
  2:56
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Take Me Back Again
  3:10
• 10
  Those Gambler's Blues
  2:52
• 11
  I'm Lonesome Too
  3:20
• 12
  The One Rose
  2:41
• 13
  For the Sake of Days Gone By
  3:21
• 14
  Jimmie's Mean Mama Blues
  3:18
• 15
  The Mystery Number Five
  3:03
• 16
  Blue Yodel No.8
  3:00
  4.0 ★
• 17
  In the Jailhouse Now #2
  2:56
  3.0 ★
• 18
  Blue Yodel No.9
  2:40
  3.0 ★
• 19
  T.B. Blues
  3:01
• 20
  Travelin' Blues
  2:47
• 21
  Jimmie the Kid
  2:50
• 22
  Why There's a Tear in My Eye
  3:10
• 23
  The Wonderful City
  2:56
• CD 4: Recordings 1931–1932
• 1
  Let Me Be Your Sidetrack
  2:44
• 2
  Jimmie Rodgers Visits the Carter Family
  3:18
• 3
  The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers in Texas
  3:18
• 4
  When the Cactus Is in Bloom
  3:17
• 5
  Gambling Polka Dot Blues
  3:25
• 6
  Looking for a New Mama
  3:22
• 7
  What Is It?
  3:11
• 8
  My Good Gal's Gone Blues
  2:48
• 9
  Southern Cannon Ball
  2:37
• 10
  Roll Along Kentucky Moon
  3:26
• 11
  Hobo's Meditation
  3:09
• 12
  Ninety Nine Years Blues
  3:15
• 13
  Mississippi Moon
  3:22
• 14
  Down the Old Road to Home
  3:18
• 15
  Blue Yodel #10
  2:52
• 16
  Home Call
  2:45
• 17
  Mother, the Queen of My Heart
  3:22
• 18
  Rock All Our Babies to Sleep
  3:22
• 19
  Whippin' That Old TB
  3:09
• CD 5: Recordings 1932–1933
• 1
  No Hard Times
  3:11
• 2
  Long Tall Mama Blues
  3:26
• 3
  Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia
  2:52
• 4
  Gambling Bar Room Blues
  3:26
• 5
  I've Only Loved Three Women
  3:11
• 6
  In the Hills of Tennessee
  3:05
• 7
  Prairie Lullaby
  3:16
• 8
  Miss the Mississippi and You
  2:57
• 9
  Sweet Mama Hurry Home
  2:46
• 10
  Blue Yodel #12 (Barefoot Blues)
  3:23
• 11
  Dreaming With Tears in My Eyes
  3:00
• 12
  The Cowhand's Last Ride
  3:03
  1.0 ★
• 13
  I'm Free (From the Chain Gang Now)
  3:05
• 14
  Yodeling My Way Back Home
  2:36
• 15
  Blue Yodel #13 (Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel)
  3:18
• 16
  The Yodeling Ranger
  2:32
• 17
  Old Pal of My Heart
  3:01
• 18
  Old Love Letters
  3:09
• 19
  Mississippi Delta Blues
  3:28
• 20
  Somewhere Down Below the Mason Dixon Line
  2:58
• 21
  Years Ago
  2:22

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Release credits

• A.P. Carter
  spoken vocals [3]
• Alvin Alley
  violin [20]
• Bill Boyd
  guitar [11]
• Billy Burkes
  guitar [3.1-4, 2.8-11, 2.13, 2.19-22, 4.12], steel guitar [13]
• Bob Sawyer
  piano [5, 14]
• Bob Sawyer's Jazz Band
  performer [5], performing orchestra [14]
• C.L. Hutchison
  cornet [1.22-23, 2.1-2]
• Cal Smith
  guitar [8]
• Charles Kama
  steel guitar [20-21]
• Clayton McMichen
  fiddle [5.3-5, 4.17-19]
• Cliff Carlisle
  steel guitar [4, 6]
• Clifford Hayes
  violin [8]
• Dean Bryan
  guitar [2.1-2, 1.22-23]
• Dick Bunyard
  steel guitar [11]
• Earl McDonald
  jug [8]
• Ellsworth T. Cozzens
  banjo [11], mandolin [7], steel guitar [7-8, 10, 12], ukulele [9]
• Fred Koone
  double bass [11-13], guitar [14]
• Freddy Smith
  guitar [8]
• George Allen
  clarinet [8]
• George MacMillan
  double bass [2.1-2, 1.22-23]
• James Rikard
  clarinet [2.1-2, 1.22-23]
• Jimmie Rodgers
  arranger [18], guitar [2.4-7, 2.12, 2.14-18, 2.22-23, 5.1-2, 5.10-17, 5.21, 1.1-6, 1.9-21, 3.1, 3.8, 3.15-17, 4.1, 4.3, 4.9, 4.14-16], spoken vocals [3], tenor vocals [1-2], ukulele [1.7, 4.6], vocal [4.1-9, 4.11-19, 1.3-23, 3.1-18, 3.20-23, 2.1-23, 5.1-21]
• Joe Kaipo
  steel guitar [8-11, 13, 17]
• John Cali
  banjo [19], guitar [20], steel guitar [18]
• John Westbrook
  steel guitar [1.22-23, 2.1-2]
• Julian R. Ninde
  guitar [7-8, 10]
• Lani McIntire
  guitar [6-7, 9-13]
• Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians
  performer [6-7, 9, 11-13]
• Leonard Joy
  conductor [3-4]
• Lil Hardin Armstrong
  piano [18]
• Louis Armstrong
  trumpet [18]
• M.T. Salazar
  guitar [20-21]
• Mike Cordova
  double bass [20-21]
• Mother Maybelle Carter
  guitar [22-23], spoken vocals [3]
• Oddie McWinders
  banjo [4.17-19, 5.2-5]
• Ralph Peer
  producer [1-2]
• Red Young
  mandolin [11]
• Robert MacGimsey
  whistling [9]
• Ruth Ann Moore
  piano [5, 7]
• Sara Carter
  spoken vocals [3], vocal [3.22-23, 4.3]
• Shelley Lee Alley
  violin [20]
• Slim Bryant
  guitar [5.1, 5.3-9, 4.17-19]
• The Louisville Jug Band
  performer [8]
• Tony Colicchio
  guitar [18-20]
• Weldon Burkes
  guitar [12-13], ukulele [8-10, 13]
• Wilbur Ball
  guitar [4, 6]
• [unknown]
  banjo [5, 14], clarinet [5.6-9, 3.5, 3.14, 2.3-4], cornet [2.3-4, 3.5, 3.14], double bass [6-7, 9, 11-13], drums (drum set) [3-4], piano [5.6-9, 2.3-4], steel guitar [6-7, 9, 11-13], tuba [3.5, 3.14, 2.3-4], ukulele [6-7, 9, 11-13], violin [2.3-4, 5.6-9]
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Issues

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  Recordings 1927-1933

  5x CD
  15 October 2002