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Rough Guide: American Roots Box

Various Artists

Initial release : 2003

World Music Network

A 4 CD set of Rough Guide CDs that had previously been released separately as: The Rough Guide to Cajun & Zydeco; The Rough Guide to Bluegrass; The Rough Guide to Delta Blues; and The Rough Guide to Gospel. The bluegrass CD in this set includes a Bela Fleck track, a Tony Rice track and a J.D. Crowe & The New South track with Tony Rice on guitar.

Tracks

Cajun & Zydeco:

  • One Step at a Time - Clifton Chenier
  • Zydeco Boogaloo - Buckwheat Zydeco
  • Balfa Waltz - David Doucet
  • La'tit Cord - Jimmy C. Newman
  • Misére M'A Fait Brailler - The Eunice Playboys
  • Rolling Pin - Beausoleil
  • Grande Bosco - Eddie LeJeune
  • Bayou Pon Pon - Mike Doucet
  • Two Step d'Amédé - Savoy & Doucet Cajun Band
  • Disco et Fais Do-Do - Bruce Daigrepont
  • Kolinda - Beausoleil
  • Slow Horses and Fast Women - Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas
  • Pointe - Mamou Playboys
  • Fiddle Stop - Wallace Read
  • Jolie, Petite Blonde - Nathan Abshire
  • Chicot Two-Step - The California Cajun Orchestra
  • J'Etais au Bal - Jo-El Sonnier
  • Let the Good Times Roll - Buckwheat Zydeco
  • I Passed in Front of Your Door - D.L. Menard
Bluegrass:
  • Gospel Train - Larry Sparks
  • Every Time You Say Goodbye - Alison Krauss
  • Lonesome Moonlight Waltz - Bluegrass Album Band
  • Matterhorn - Country Gentlemen
  • Hills of Home - Hazel Dickens
  • Chicken Reel - Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys
  • Lonesome Wind Blues - Rhonda Vincent
  • Hello City Limits - Red Allen & the Kentuckians
  • My Better Years - Johnson Mountain Boys
  • Shiloh - Emerson & Waldron
  • Rank Stranger - Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
  • Brighter Mansion - Longview
  • Nashville Blues - J.D. Crowe & the New South
  • Sweetheart, Darlin' of Mine - Claire Lynch
  • I've Waited as Long as I Can - Tony Rice
  • Crossfire - Bela Fleck
  • You'll Get No More of Me - Hazel Dickens
  • My Sweet Love Ain't Around - McCoury Brothers
  • Can't Say Goodbye - Third Tyme Out
  • Mama's Hand - Lynn Morris
  • I've Lived a Lot in My Time - Dry Branch Fire Squad
Delta Blues:
  • Jumper on the Line - R.L. Burnside
  • Preaching Blues (Up Jump the Devil) - Robert Johnson
  • Done Left Here - Mississippi Fred McDowell
  • High Water Everywhere, Pt. 1 - Charley Patton
  • Walkin' Blues - Son House,
  • Sitting on Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks
  • Country Blues - Muddy Waters
  • Goin' Back to the Bridge - Asie Payton
  • Last Kind Words Blues - Elvie Thomas and Geeshie Wiley
  • Catfish Blues - Robert Petway
  • Cool Drink of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson
  • Black Mattie - Robert Belfour
  • Outside Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
  • Future Blues - Willie Brown
  • On the Wall - Louise Johnson
  • Stack O' Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
  • Mississippi Swamp Moan - Alfred Lewis
  • Aberdeen Mississippi Blues - Bukka White
  • Meet Me in the City - Junior Kimbrough
  • That's No Way to Get Along - Robert Wilkins
  • Banker's Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
  • Don't Mash My Digger So Deep - Bo Carter
  • Baby Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams
  • I'm So Glad - Skip James
Gospel:
  • Christ Is All - The Soul Stirrers
  • I Feel Good - Shirley Caesar and The Caravans
  • Oh Lord-Stand by Me - The Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama
  • New Home - The Staple Singers
  • I'm on My Way to Canaan - Mahalia Jackson
  • Move Upstairs - Bessie Griffin
  • Heaven's Grocery Store - The Dixie Hummingbirds
  • Keep Your Hand on the Plow - Montgomery Gospel Trio
  • Jesus Is All - The Staple Singers
  • Run All the Way - Mahalia Jackson
  • Life Is Like a Mountain Railroad - Dorothy Norwood and Albertina Walker
  • I'm Willing - Inez Andrews, The Caravans with Albertina Walker
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain - Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir
  • Tribute to Granny - Maggie Ingram
  • Leaning and Depending on the Lord - Sweet Honey in the Rock
  • Halleujah - The Fairfield Four
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