The Folkways Years, 1944-1963

Tracklist

• 1
  Old Jabo

  Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
  2:13
• 2
  Going Down Slow
  2:54
• 3
  Crow Jane Blues
  2:02
• 4
  Harmonica With Slaps
  2:04
• 5
  Pick a Bale of Cotton
  2:33
• 6
  Dark Road

  Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
  2:45
• 7
  Skip to My Lou

  Washboard Band
  1:24
• 8
  The Woman Is Killing Me
  2:26
• 9
  Jail House Blues
  5:04
• 10
  Fox Chase / Right on That Shore

  Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry
  3:05
• 11
  Shortnin' Bread
  2:03
• 12
  Sweet Woman
  3:07
• 13
  Lost John
  3:10
• 14
  A Man Is Nothing but a Fool

  Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and Coyal McMahan
  3:20
• 15
  Poor Man (But a Good Man)
  3:11
• 16
  I've Been Your Doggie Since I Been Your Man
  3:57
• 17
  Custard Pie Blues
  2:47

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Release credits

• Alan Yoshida
  mastering
• Brownie McGhee
  guitar [1-3, 5-7, 11-12, 14, 16], vocal [6]
• Carol Hardy
  design/illustration
• Coyal McMahan
  maracas [5, 14]
• David Gahr
  photography
• Frank Robertson
  bass guitar [7]
• Gene Moore
  membranophone [6]
• J.C. Burris
  body percussion [4], bones [15-16], vocal [15]
• Kip Lornell
  compiler, liner notes
• Pete Seeger
  banjo [10], five-string banjo [7], vocal [10]
• Sonny Terry
  harmonica [1-10, 12-17], mouth harp [11], vocal [1-6, 8-10, 12-17]
• Stick McGhee
  guitar [9]
• William Edward Cook
  washboard [7]
• [unknown]
  background vocals [17], bones [8, 17], percussion [8, 17], washboard [8, 17], washtub bass [8, 17]

Issues

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  The Folkways Years, 1944-1963

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  1991