Close to Home: Old Time Music From Mike Seeger's Collection (1952-1967)

Various Artists

Smithsonian Folkways

Field recordings collected by Mike Seeger in the Appalachian Mountains between 1952 and 1967.

Tracks

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

• Conceived, compiled, produced by - Mike Seeger
• Notes - Mike Seeger
• Cover photo - Alice Gerrard
• All other photos - Mike Seeger
• Mastering - Dave Glasser
• No-Noise - Charlie Pilzer, Lea Anne Sonenstein
• Audio supervision - Pete Reiniger
• Production superviser - Amy Horvitz, Anthony Seeger