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This compilation features over an hour of previously unreleased tracks culled from the archives of Mike Seeger, one of America's foremost collectors. Artists include Dock Boggs, Snuffy Jenkins, Tom Ashley, Arthur Smith, Sara Carter Bayes, Maybelle Carter, Elizabeth Cotten and more.

1. In the Sweet Bye and Bye - Elizabeth Cotten 2. Tie Your Dog, Sally Gal - Will Adam 3. Banjo Instrumental - J.C. 'Cleve' Sutphin 4. Lost Train Blues - V.L. Sutphin 5. Shortening Bread - Vernon ; Cleve Sutphin 6. The Train That Carried My Girl from Town - Vernon ; Cleve Sutphin 7. Old Gambling Man - J.J. Neece 8. John Henry - J.J. Neece 9. Shout, Little Lulu - Louise Foreacre 10. He Will Set Your Fields on Fire - Kilby Snow 11. Gather in the Golden Grain - Ernest ; Hattie Stoneman 12. Going to Lay Down My Burdens - Elizabeth Whit 13. John Henry - Lesley Riddle 14. Pretty Fair Damsel - Tom Ashley 15. It's These Hard Times - Pearly 'Grandma' Davis 16. Old-Time Reel - Pearly 'Grandma' Davis 17. Jackson Schottische - a. L. Hall ; Group 18. Lone Prairie - Wade Ward 19. Molly, Put the Kettle on - Wade Ward 20. Last Gold Dollar - Edsel Martin ; Bill McElreath 21. John Henry - Bill ; Jean Davis 22. Three Nights Drunk - Blue Ridge Buddies 23. Jimmie Sutton - Blue Ridge Buddies 24. Going to Lay Down My Old Guitar - Snuffy Jenkins ; Ira Dimmery 25. Black Mountain Rag - Arthur Smith, Sam McGee, Kirk McGee 26. A Talk on the World - Clyde Lewis 27. Red Wing - 'Lost John' Ray, Walt Koken 28. Leather Breeches - Eck Robertson, New Lost City Ramblers 29. Blackberry Blossom - Sherman Lawson 30. Alabama Gals - Emmett Cole 31. Old Joe Clark - George Landers 32. Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs 33. Queen Sally - Archie Sturgill 34. Poor Orphan Child - Kate Peters Sturgill 35. My Virginia Rose - Scott Boatright 36. I'm Leaving You - Sara Carter Bayes ; Maybelle Carter 37. He Said If You Love Me, Feed My Sheep - Stancer Quartet 38. I Would Not Live Always - Clarence Ferrill