Shake Sugaree

Elizabeth Cotten

Smithsonian Folkways

A collection of tracks recorded in 1965 and 1966 including 10 previously unreleased recordings. This is an expanded CD release of an LP that was released in 1966.

Tracks

• Shake Sugaree
• Take Me Back to Baltimore
• Washington Blues
• I'm Going Away
• Fox Chase
• Ontario Blues
• Fare You Well, My Darling
• Untitled / George Buck
• Mama, Nobody's Here but the Baby
• Mama, Nobody's Here but the Baby
• Look and Live, My Brother
• Jesus Lifted Me and Brenda Evans
• Jesus Is Tenderly Calling
• Buck Dance
• Ruben
• Oh, Miss Lulie Gal
• Can't Get a Letter from Down the Road
• Shoot That Buffalo
• Boatman Dance
• Hallelujah, It Is Done
• Holy Ghost, Unchain My Name
• Little Brown Jug
• Delia
• Ball the Jack
• Till We Meet Again
• When the Train Comes Along

• Elizabeth Cotten - guitar, vocals

• Producer, recording, editing - Mike Seeger
• Sound supervision, mastering - Pete Reiniger
• Design - Sonya Cohen Cramer
• Liner Notes - Mike Seeger, John Ullman
• Cover and back photos - John Cohen
• Other photos - David Gahr, Mark and Sue Sandson
• Recorded in Princeton, New Jersey in February 1965 and Roosevelt, New Jersey in January 1966

16 of the tracks on this CD release were originally released on the LP;

• Elizabeth Cotten, Vol. 2: Shake Sugaree, Elizabeth Cotten, 1966