MIKE SEEGER: EARLY SOUTHERN GUITAR SOUNDS

The guitar fostered great creativity in the South as it evolved from a small gut-string instrument in polite parlors to the big, loud, steel-string guitar now found in our homes and onstage. Mike sings and plays a variety of the styles that were played in the rural South from about 1850 to 1930 on 25 different types of guitars. Featured are: banjo-like styles, rags, blues, parlor and parlor-based styles, slide guitar styles, and many song accompaniment styles. The booklet includes a fresh look at the history of the guitar and its travel South, notes on songs and styles, and photographs of all the instruments used. 28 tracks, 36-page booklet, 74 minutes

1 Wildwood Flower
2 Old Chisholm Trail
3 Spanish Fandango
4 Shakin' the Pines in the Holler
5 Weary Lonesome Blues
6 White Oak Mountain
7 I'm Crazy Over You
8 Can't Get a Letter from Home
9 Guitar Rag
10 Smoketown Strut
11 Big Kid's Barroom
12 Fishing Blues
13 After All Has Been Said and Done
14 Joe Lee's Tune
15 Carroll County Blues
16 Birmingham Tickle
17 Worried Blues
18 Kenny Wagner's Surrender
19 Arizona
20 Pearly Dew
21 Risselty Rosselty
22 Johnny Doyle
23 Black Jack David
24 John Henry
25 Buckdancer's Choice
26 Riley and Spencer
27 When This World Comes to An End
28 Leaning on the Everlasting Arm