Protobilly: The Minstrel & Tin Pan Alley DNA of Country Music

Compilation by Various Artists

Released 2019

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Casey Jones
    Billy Murray
    4:15
  • 2
    Casey Jones
    Fiddlin’ John Carson
    3:04
  • 3
    Southern Casey Jones
    Jesse James
    2:52
  • 4
    Steamboat Bill
    Arthur Collins
    2:08
  • 5
    Casey and Bill
    Earl McDonald’s Original Louisville Jug Band
    2:48
  • 6
    Steamboat Bill Boogie
    Delmore Brothers
    2:36
  • 7
    Red Wing
    Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr
    2:15
  • 8
    Red Wing
    Doc and Cy Williams and The Border Riders
    2:39
  • 9
    Just Break the News to Mother
    George J. Gaskin
    1:55
  • 10
    Take the News to Mother
    Louvin Brothers
    2:48
  • 11
    In the Shadow of the Pines
    Royal Fish and Vernon Archibald
    4:21
  • 12
    In the Shadow of the Pine
    Kelly Harrell
    3:25
  • 13
    Are You From Dixie?
    Billy Murray & Irving Kaufman
    2:38
  • 14
    Are You From Dixie?
    Grandpa Jones
    2:36
  • 15
    Home, Sweet Home
    Eleonora de Cisneros
    4:15
  • 16
    Home, Sweet Home
    Don Reno
    2:21
  • 17
    The Party That Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man
    Ed Morton
    2:50
  • 18
    The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man
    Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright
    3:08
  • 19
    I'm Alabama Bound
    Prince's Orchestra
    2:56
  • 20
    I'm Alabama Bound
    Charlie Jackson
    2:55
  • 21
    Unter dem Doppeladler
    Olbrig's Zither Trio
    3:08
  • 22
    Under the Double Eagle
    Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers
    2:51
  • 23
    Blue Bell
    Harry MacDonough and the Haydn Quartet
    2:50
  • 24
    Blue Bell
    Merle Travis
    1:46
  • 25
    Virginia Bluebell
    Eddie Adcock
    2:06
  • 26
    May Irwin's Frog Song
    May Irwin
    2:38
  • 27
    The Foolish Frog
    Frank Corso
    2:53
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Haul the Woodpile Down
    Charles A. Asbury
    2:33
  • 2
    Hold the Wood-Pile Down
    Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers
    3:08
  • 3
    Darling Nellie Gray
    The American Quartet
    2:20
  • 4
    Medley - Darling Nellie Gray and Little Brown Jug
    Roland Cauley & Lake Howard
    2:56
  • 5
    Darling Nelly Gray
    Louis Armstrong and The Mills Brothers
    2:42
  • 6
    I Got Mine
    Arthur Collins & Joseph Natus
    1:52
  • 7
    I Got Mine
    Frank Stokes
    2:57
  • 8
    Go Easy Mabel
    Edward Meeker
    2:12
  • 9
    Go Easy Mabel
    Delmore Brothers
    2:35
  • 10
    The Smoke Goes Up the Chimney Just the Same
    Dan W. Quinn
    3:03
  • 11
    The Smoke Goes Out the Chimney Just the Same
    Fiddlin' John Carson
    2:56
  • 12
    When the Bees Are in the Hive
    Peerless Quartet
    2:12
  • 13
    When the Bees Are in the Hive
    Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
    2:10
  • 14
    Don't You Leave Me Here
    Charles Johnson's Original Paradise Ten
    3:42
  • 15
    I'm Alabama Bound
    Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
    2:56
  • 16
    Don't Go Down in the Mine, Dad
    Stanley Kirkby
    3:24
  • 17
    Dream of a Miner's Child
    Keith Whitley
    2:25
  • 18
    I Loved You Better Than You Knew
    Byron G. Harlan & Frank C. Stanley
    1:59
  • 19
    I Loved You Better Than You Knew
    The Carter Family
    3:08
  • 20
    I Loved You Better Than You Knew
    Johnnie & Jack
    2:19
  • 21
    By the Watermelon Vine
    Edison Male Quartette
    2:07
  • 22
    Lindy
    Proximity String Quartet
    3:02
  • 23
    Who Broke the Lock?
    Cousins and DeMoss
    2:18
  • 24
    Who Stole de Lock?
    The Georgia Browns
    2:47
  • 25
    Who Stole the Lock
    Jack Bland & His Rhythmakers
    2:40
  • 26
    Lovesick Blues
    Emmett Miller
    3:07
  • 27
    Lovesick Blues
    Hank Williams
    3:12
  • 28
    I'm the Father of a Little Black Coon
    Charles A. Asbury
    2:37
  • CD 3
  • 1
    May Irwin's Bully Song
    May Irwin
    3:34
  • 2
    Bully of the Town
    Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers with Riley Puckett
    2:56
  • 3
    Fille de la fille
    Vin Bruce
    2:41
  • 4
    Turkey in the Straw
    Billy Golden
    2:19
  • 5
    Turkey Buzzard Blues
    Peg Leg Howell & Eddie Anthony
    3:05
  • 6
    Old Dan Tucker
    Harry C. Browne
    3:06
  • 7
    Old Dan Tucker
    Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers with Riley Puckett & Clayton McMichen
    3:06
  • 8
    The Arkansas Traveler
    Len Spencer
    2:09
  • 9
    The Arkansaw Traveler
    Jilson Setters
    3:12
  • 10
    Arkansas Traveler
    Clayton McMichen & His Georgia Wildcats
    3:00
  • 11
    The Girl I Loved in Sunny Tennessee
    S.H. Dudley & Harry MacDonough
    3:05
  • 12
    Sunny Tennessee
    Floyd County Ramblers
    3:19
  • 13
    Nigger Blues
    George O'Connor
    2:51
  • 14
    The Blues Ain't Nothin' But...???
    Georgia White
    2:39
  • 15
    I'Se Gwine Back to Dixie
    Brilliant Quartette
    1:58
  • 16
    I'Se Gwine Back to Dixie
    Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers
    3:08
  • 17
    Baby Mine
    Elizabeth Spencer
    3:36
  • 18
    Going Around This World
    Leslie Keith & The Blue Sky Boys
    1:56
  • 19
    All Night Long
    Anna Chandler
    3:24
  • 20
    All Night Long
    Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseeans
    2:45
  • 21
    Laughing Rag
    Sam Moore-Horace Davis
    2:47
  • 22
    Mexican Rag
    Darby & Tarlton
    3:01
  • 23
    I Don't Care If I Never Wake Up
    Silas Leachman
    1:48
  • 24
    My Money Never Gives Out
    Arthur Collins
    2:33
  • 25
    My Money Never Runs Out
    Banjo Joe
    2:52
  • 26
    My Money Never Gives Out
    Dom Flemons & Guy Davis
    3:05

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