Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy: The Complete Recordings

Compilation by Uncle Dave Macon

Released 29 June 2004

country bluegrass

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CD 1
1
Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
2:29
2
Hill Billie Blues
2:54
3
Old Maid’s Last Hope (A Burglar Song)
2:30
4
All I’ve Got’s Gone
3:00
5
The Fox Chase
2:42
6
Papa’s Billie Goat
2:45
7
The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane
2:51
8
(She Was Always) Chewing Gum
2:52
9
Jonah and the Whale
3:10
10
I’m Going Away to Leave You, Love
2:55
11
Love Somebody
2:58
12
Soldier’s Joy
2:53
13
Bile Them Cabbage Down
3:00
14
Down by the River
3:04
15
Run, Nigger, Run
2:56
16
Old Dan Tucker
3:02
17
Station Will Be Changed After a While
3:15
18
Rooster Crow Medley
2:58
19
Going Across the Sea
2:57
20
Just From Tennessee
2:59
21
Watermelon Smilin’ on the Vine
2:59
22
All-Go-Hungry Hash House
3:17
23
From Jerusalem to Jericho
3:02
24
I Tickled Nancy
2:31
25
Arkansas Traveler
3:04
26
The Girl I Left Behind Me
3:04
CD 2
1
Muskrat Medley
3:06
2
Old Ship of Zion
3:01
3
Down in Arkansaw
3:04
4
Down by the Old Mill Stream
2:59
5
I Don't Reckon It’ll Happen Again
3:11
6
Save My Mother’s Picture From the Sale
2:54
7
Rise When the Rooster Crows
3:04
8
Way Down the Old Plank Road
2:56
9
The Bible’s True
3:00
10
He Won the Heart of My Sarah Jane
3:08
11
Late Last Night When My Willie Came Home
2:48
12
I’ve Got the Morning Blues
2:50
13
Death of John Henry (Steel Driving Man)
3:00
14
On the Dixie Bee Line (In That Henry Ford of Mine)
2:52
15
Buck Dancer’s Choice
2:54
16
The Franklin Blues
2:49
17
Whoop’ Em Up Cindy
2:49
18
Only as Far as the Gate, Dear Ma
2:58
19
Just Tell Them That You Saw Me
3:10
20
Poor Sinners, Fare You Well
3:00
21
Old Ties
3:00
22
Knoxville Blues
3:00
23
We Are Up Against It Now
3:11
24
Uncle Dave’s Beloved Solo
3:03
25
The Old Man’s Drunk Again
2:58
26
I Ain’t Got Long to Stay
2:52
CD 3
1
Ain’t It a Shame to Keep Your Honey Out in the Rain
2:52
2
Stop That Knocking at My Door
2:47
3
Sassy Sam
3:08
4
Shout, Mourner, You Shall Be Free
2:55
5
I Don’t Care If I Never Wake Up
2:56
6
In the Good Old Summer Time
2:50
7
Something’s Always Sure to Tickle Me
2:48
8
Sourwood Mountain Medley
2:53
9
Deliverance Will Come
2:45
10
Wouldn’t Give Me Sugar in My Coffee
2:43
11
Kissin’ on the Sly
2:54
12
Hold on to the Sleigh
3:06
13
In the Good Old Days of Long Ago
2:56
14
My Girl’s a High Born Lady
3:06
15
The Cross Eyed Butcher and the Cackling Hen
2:56
16
In the Old Carolina State (Where the Sweet Magnolias Bloom)
2:55
17
Never Make Love No More
3:07
18
Arcade Blues
2:56
19
Them Two Gals of Mine
2:49
20
Diamond in the Rough
2:57
21
Tossing the Baby So High
2:54
22
Sho’ Fly, Don't Bother Me
2:49
23
Uncle Ned
2:56
24
Braying Mule
2:56
25
Bake That Chicken Pie
3:03
26
Rock About My Sara Jane
3:20
CD 4
1
Tell Her to Come Back Home
3:00
2
Hold That Wood-Pile Down
3:02
3
Carve That Possum
2:54
4
Hop High Ladies, the Cake’s All Dough
3:02
5
Sail Away Ladies
2:56
5.0 ★
6
I'm A-Goin’ Away in the Morn
3:05
7
Sleepy Lou
3:05
8
The Gray Cat on the Tennessee Farm
3:08
9
Walk, Tom Wilson, Walk
2:59
10
I’s Gwine Back to Dixie
3:06
11
Take Me Home, Poor Julia
3:00
12
Go Along Mule
3:02
13
Tom and Jerry
3:03
14
Rabbit in the Pea Patch
2:59
15
Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel
3:07
16
Pickaninny Lullaby Song
3:16
17
Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb
2:59
18
The Maple on the Hill
3:14
19
Poor Old Dad
3:19
20
Walking in the Sunlight
3:01
21
Bear Me Away on Your Snowy Wings
3:03
22
The Mockingbird Song (medley)
3:01
23
Shall We Gather at the River
3:25
5.0 ★
24
In the Sweet Bye and Bye
2:54
25
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
3:01
CD 5
1
Molly Married a Travelling Man
3:05
2
When Reuben Comes to Town
3:00
3
Got No Silver nor Gold Blues
2:57
4
Heartaching Blues
2:59
5
Roe Rire Poor Gal
3:00
6
You’ve Been a Friend to Me
3:07
7
Backwater Blues
3:32
8
More Like Your Dad Every Day
3:02
9
I’ll Never Go There Any More (The Bowery)
3:03
10
Jesus, Lover of My Soul
2:56
11
From Earth to Heaven
3:10
12
The Coon That Had the Razor
2:54
13
Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line
3:08
14
Worthy of Estimation
2:57
15
I'm the Child to Fight
2:58
16
Over the Road I'm Bound to Go
2:59
17
The New Ford Car
3:03
18
The Gal That Got Stuck on Everything She Said
2:53
19
Comin' Round the Mountain
3:07
20
Governor Al Smith
3:05
21
Darling Zelma Lee
2:48
22
Put Me in My Little Bed
2:43
23
Life and Death of Jesse James
2:56
24
Man That Rode the Mule Around the World
2:53
25
Tennessee Jubilee
2:53
26
New Coon in Town
2:55
CD 6
1
For Goodness Sakes Don't Say I Told You
2:53
2
We Need a Change in Business All Around
2:56
3
Susie Lee
2:46
4
Mister Johnson
3:01
5
Farm Relief
2:58
6
Uncle Dave's Travels, Part 3 (In and Around Nashville)
2:51
7
Since Baby's Learned to Talk
3:09
8
Uncle Dave's Travels, Part 4 (Visit at the Old Maid's)
3:18
9
Over the Mountain
2:53
10
Hush Little Baby Don't You Cry
2:49
11
Uncle Dave's Travels, Part 1 (Misery in Arkansas)
2:50
12
Uncle Dave's Travels, Part 2 (Around Louisville, Ky.)
3:18
13
Tennessee Red Fox Chase
3:15
14
The Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train
3:08
15
Oh Baby, You Done Me Wrong
3:02
16
She's Got the Money Too
3:17
17
Oh Lovin' Babe
3:14
18
Mysteries of the World
3:07
19
Come on Buddie, Don't You Want to Go
3:08
20
Go On, Nora Lee
3:06
21
Was You There When They Took My Lord Away
3:01
22
Thank God for Everything
2:58
23
When the Train Comes Along
3:02
24
Tennessee Tornado
3:13
25
Don't Get Weary Children
3:03
26
He's Up With the Angels Now
2:52
CD 7
1
Over the Mountain
2:36
2
When the Harvest Days Are Over
3:00
3
One More River to Cross
2:21
4
Just One Way to the Pearly Gates
3:10
5
I'll Tickle Nancy
2:50
6
I'll Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
2:44
7
All in Down and Out Blues
2:30
8
Honest Confession Is Good for the Soul
2:50
9
Fame Apart From God's Approval
2:27
10
The Bum Hotel
2:28
11
From Jerusalem to Jericho
3:20
12
Two-In-One Chewing Gum
2:59
13
Travelin' Down the Road
3:25
14
Country Ham and Red Gravy
2:50
15
Summertime on the Beeno Line
3:09
16
He Won the Heart of Sarah Jane
2:36
17
Peek-A-Boo
3:11
18
Working for My Lord
2:30
19
She's Got the Money Too
2:33
20
Wait Till the Clouds Roll By
2:59
21
Things I Don't Like to See
3:10
22
They're After Me
3:16
23
My Daughter Wished to Marry
2:27
24
Beautiful Love
3:29
25
Give Me Back My Five Dollars
2:47
26
Railroadin' and Gamblin'
2:37
27
Cumberland Mountain Deer Race
2:49
CD 8
1
Johnny Grey
2:36
2
The Gayest Old Dude That's Out
2:40
3
Come Dearest the Daylight Is Gone/ Nobody's Darling but Mine
2:44
4
Don't Look for Trouble
2:41
5
I'm Free, I've Broken the Chain
2:43
6
Laugh Your Blues Away
1:50
7
Travelin' on My Mind
2:48
8
I'm Drifting Farther From You
2:54
9
The Grey Cat on the Tennessee Farm
2:05
10
Over the Mountain
2:44
11
Eleven Cent Cotton
1:29
12
Death of John Henry (Steel Driving Man)
2:20
13
From Jerusalem to Jericho
2:44
14
How Beautiful Heaven Must Be
1:43
15
(She Was Always) Chewin' Gum
1:19
16
Cumberland Mountain Deer Race
3:05
17
Rabbit in the Pea Patch
1:43
18
Bully of the Town
2:22
19
Mountain Dew
2:30
20
Old Maid's Love Song
2:39
21
Rock of Ages
0:19
22
Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
1:49
23
Death of John Henry (Steel Driving Man)
1:28
24
That's Where My Money Goes
1:22
25
Long John Green
2:27
26
Lady in the Car
1:45
27
Cotton-Eyed Joe
1:51
28
Something's Always Sure to Tickle Me
2:31
29
(She Was Always) Chewing Gum
1:33
30
All in Down and Out Blues
1:08
31
All Go Hungry Hash House
1:29
32
Whoa Mule
1:35
33
No One to Welcome Me Home
2:05
34
(Banjo Solo)
0:46
35
Jenny Put the Kettle On
1:16
36
Kissin' on the Sly
1:53
CD 9
1
Cannon County Hills
2:08
2
Nobody's Darling but Mine
1:21
3
Away Out on the Mountain
1:07
4
Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
2:08
5
Pray for the Lights to Go Out
1:45
6
Take Me Back to My Old Carolina Home
1:45
7
(She Was Always) Chewing Gum
2:00
8
Kissin' on the Sly
2:03
9
Turkey in the Straw
1:41
10
I Intend to Make Heaven My Home
3:12
11
Honest Confession Is Good
2:40
12
Come Dearest the Daylight Is Gone
2:12
13
The Preacher Got Drunk
1:54
14
Late Last Night When My Willie Came Home
2:38
15
Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
2:12
16
Shucking of the Corn
1:44
17
How Beautiful Heaven Must Be
0:21
18
Peek-A-Boo
2:54
19
He Won the Heart of My Sarah Jane
2:40
20
Cumberland Mountain Deer Race
0:14
21
I'm Going Away to Leave You, Love
1:37
22
Late Last Night When My Willie Came Home
2:32
23
All Go Hungry Hash House
2:42
24
Turkey in the Straw
2:41
25
Something's Always Sure to Tickle Me
2:27
26
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
2:18
27
New Dude in Town
2:58
28
From Jerusalem to Jericho
1:42
29
Old Dan Tucker
2:03
30
All Go Hungry Hash House
2:42
DVD 10
1
Red River Valley
2
Swing Your Partner
Uncle Dave Macon & Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys
3
Down in Union County
Uncle Dave Macon & Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys
4
Wabash Cannonball
Uncle Dave Macon & Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys
5
(Take Me Back to) That Old Carolina Home
6
Just Tell Them That You Saw Me
7
The Great Speckled Bird
Uncle Dave Macon & Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys
8
Down Home in Union (Reprise)

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Release credits

Alton Delmore
background vocals [1-4, 11], guitar [1-6]
Charles K. Wolfe
producer [19]
Kirk McGee
banjo [23, 25-26], fiddle [4.1-8, 4.12-16, 4.22, 3.25-26], guitar [22, 24], mandolin [10-11, 17-21, 23-24], vocal [5.6, 4.2-3, 4.5-6, 4.12, 4.17-21, 4.23-24, 3.25-26, 6.23, 6.25]
Mazy Todd
fiddle [3.25-26, 4.1-8, 4.11-15, 4.17-21, 4.24]
Rabon Delmore
background vocals [1-4, 11], tenor guitar [1-6]
Sam McGee
banjitar [5.11-16, 6.13-21], guitar [2.7-14, 2.17-21, 3.25-26, 4.1-24, 6.22-26, 5.7, 5.19-20], vocal [4.2-3, 4.5-6, 4.12, 4.17-21, 4.23-24, 3.25-26, 6.13-21, 5.6, 5.13, 5.15, 5.19]
Sid Harkreader
fiddle [11-12, 26], guitar [5.21-26, 2.2-4, 1.25, 6.1-2, 6.4, 6.9, 6.11], vocal [2.3, 6.9, 5.21-25]
Uncle Dave Macon
banjo [5.1-9, 5.11-26, 1.1-25, 4.1-25, 3.1-26, 2.1-10, 2.13-14, 2.17-26, 6.1-23, 6.25-26], five-string banjo [1-8, 11], guitar [26], lead vocals [1-11], spoken vocals [5], vocal [3.1-26, 4.1-25, 1.1-4, 1.6-10, 1.13-26, 2.1-14, 2.17-26, 5.1-9, 5.11-26, 6.1-26]

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Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy: The Complete Recordings
9x CD, DVD
29 June 2004