Darby & Tarlton ( Darby,Tom ) / ( Tarlton,Jimmie ) Darby & Tarlton CD

Tom Darby and Jimmie Tarlton were early country music's most important and popular duo; the body of work they recorded for Columbia Records between 1927 and 1933 ranks among the most hallowed in old-time music. This 4-CD import includes such key tracks as Down in Florida on a Hog (later entitled Going down the Road Feeling Bad); Birmingham Town; Weaver's Blues; Ooze Up to Me; Roy Dixon; Birmingham Jail; Columbus Stockade Blues, and more, with the final disc devoted to sides recorded by Chris Bouchillon, who basically invented the talking blues with songs like I've Been Married Three Times. 88 tracks.

1. Down in Florida on a Hog 2. Birmingham Town 3. Birmingham Jail 4. Columbus Stockade Blues 5. Gamblin' Jim 6. Lonesome in the Pines 7. After the Ball 8. I Can't Tell You Why I Love You 9. Irish Police 10. The Hobo Tramp 11. Alto Waltz 12. Mexican Rag 13. Birmingham Jail No 2 14. The Rainbow Division 15. Country Girl Valley 16. Lonesome Railroad 17. If You Ever Learn to Love Me 18. If I Had Listened to My Mother 19. Traveling Yodel Blues 20. Heavy Hearted Blues 21. The New York Hobo 22. All Bound Down in Texas 23. Touring Yodel Blues 24. Slow Wicked Blues 25. Black Jack Moonshine 26. Ain't Gonna Marry No More 27. Down in the Old Cherry Orchard 28. When the Bluebirds Nest Again 29. Begger Joe 30. When You're Away from Home 31. Birmingham Rag 32. Sweet Sarah Blues 33. Little Bessie 34. I Left Her at the River 35. Jack and May 36. Captain Won't You Let Me Go Home 37. Going Back to My Texas Home 38. The Whistling Songbird 39. Frieght Train Ramble 40. Lonesome Frisco Line 41. Down Among the Sugar Cane 42. The Black Sheep 43. Little Ola 44. Once I Had a Sweetheart 45. The Maple on the Hill 46. My Father Died a Drunkard 47. Frankie Dean 48. Pork Chops 49. In the Banks of a Lonely River 50. Faithless Husband 51. Hard Times 52. Rising Sun Blues 53. My Little Blue Heaven 54. Careless Love 55. By the Old Oaken Bucket, Louise 56. Lowe Bonnie 57. After the Sinking of the Titanic 58. New Birmingham Jail 59. Roy Dixon 60. Moonshine Blues 61. She's Waiting for Me 62. Goin' Down That Lonesome Frisco Lane 63. Thirteen Years in Kilbie Prison 64. Once I Had a Fortune 65. Dixie Mail 66. The Weaver's Blues 67. Sweetheart of My Dreams 68. Ooze Up to Me 69. Let's Be Friends Again 70. By the Old Oaken Bucket, Louise 71. Born in Hard Luck 72. Talking Blues 73. New Talking Blues 74. Hannah 75. Old Blind Heck 76. Let It Alone 77. My Fat Girl 78. Waltz Me Around Willie 79. Ambitions Father 80. You Look Awful Good to Me 81. The Medicine Show 82. I've Been Marriad Three Times 83. My Wife's Wedding 84. Adam and Eve: Part 1 85. Adam and Eve: Part 2 86. Oyster Stew 87. Oh, Miss Lizzie 88. Girls of Yesterday