Mountain Music Of Kentucky LP (1960)

Mountain Music Of Kentucky LP. Folkways Records(FA 2317). 1960. Recorded, edited, and annotated by John Cohen.

1. Old Regular Baptist Church at Jeff - Amazing Grace
2. Martha Hall - Foreign Lander
3. Granville Bowlen - Charlie's Neat
4. Willie Chapman - Little Birdie
5. Lee Sexton - Fox Chase
6. Roscoe Holcomb - East Virginia Blues
7. James B. Cornett - Spring Of '65
8. George Davis - Death Of The Blue Eagle
9. "Banjo" Bill Cornett - Old Age Pension Blues
10. Marion Summner - Lost Indian
11. Marion Summner - Soldier's Joy
12. Granville Bowlen - Cotton Eyed Joe
13. Granville Bowlen - Little Sunshine
14. Martin Young & Corbett Grigsby - John Henry
15. Willie Chapman - Jaw Bone
16. Lee Sexton - St. Louis Blues
17. Roscoe Holcomb - Wayfaring Stranger
18. Roscoe Holcomb - Across The Rocky Mountain
19. Roscoe Holcomb - Stingy Woman Blues
20. Roscoe Holcomb - Blackeyed Susie
21. Roscoe Holcomb - I Wish I Were A Single Girl Again
22. Martha Hall - Young & Tender Ladies
23. Martha Hall - Kitty Alone
24. James B. Cornett - Barbara Allen
25. "Banjo" Bill Cornett - Sweet Willie
26. "Banjo" Bill Cornett - Buck Creek Girls
27. "Banjo" Bill Cornett - Cluck Old Hen
28. Corbett Grigsby & Martin Young - Rocky Island
29. Corbett Grigsby & Martin Young - No Letter In The Mail
30. James Crase - Give The Fiddler A Dram
31. James Crase - Old Joe Clark

Southern Mountain Folksongs and Ballads LP (195?)

Southern Mountain Folksongs and Ballads LP. Riverside Records (12-617). 195?

1. Artus Moser - Bobby Blue Eyes
2. Harry & Jeanie West - Nine Pound Hammer
3. George Pegram - The Boston Burglar
4. George Pegram - Mountain Fox Chase
5. Harry & Jeanie West - Banks of the Ohio
6. Virgil Sturgill - Devilish Mary
7. Obray Ramsey - Jim Gunter and the Steer
8. Artus Moser - The Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea
9. Harry & Jeanie West - Bury Me Beneath the Willow
10. Artus Moser - I Went Up On the Mountain
11. Harry & Jeanie West - Knoxville Girl
12. George Pegram & Walter Parham - I Am a Pilgrim
13. Virgil Sturgill - Charles Guiteau
14. Artus Moser - Mole in the Ground
15. Harry & Jeanie West - Wild Bill Jones
16. George Pegram & Walter Parham - Pickin' and Blowin'
17. Artus Moser - The Cherry Tree Carol
18. Obray Ramsey - On Top of Old Smoky

Roosevelt Charles - Blues, Prayer, Work and Trouble Songs LP (1964)

Roosevelt Charles - Blues, Prayer, Work and Trouble Songs LP. Roosevelt Charles (vocals) accompanied by Otis Webster (vocals and guitar). Vanguard (VRS-9136). 1964.

1. Mean Trouble Blues
2. Mule Blues
3. Uncle Bud
4. Meeting at the Old Camp Ground
5. The Bole Weevil and the Bale Weevil
6. Pick 'Em Up Higher
7. I'm A Gamblin' Man
8. Jonah and the Whale
9. Greenback Dollar Blues
10. Wasn't I Lucky
11. Cane Choppin'
12. That Ole Ship o' Zion
13. Jesus is a-Listenin'
14. It's Gettin' Late
15. Freight Train Blues
16. Keep Yo' Lamp Trimmed an' Burnin'

Prison Worksongs LP (1959)

Prison Worksongs LP. Louisiana Folklore Society (LFS A-5). 1959.

1. Big Louisiana, Reverend Rogers, Roosevelt Charles - Berta
2. Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey, Andy Mosely - Take This Hammer
3. Reverend Rogers, Big Louisiana, Jose Smith - Stewball
4. Odea Matthews - Five Long Years For One Man
5. Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey, Andy Mosely - Alberta Let Your Bang Grow Long
6. James Russell and Gang - I Had Five Long Years
7. Johnny Butler and Gang - Early In The Morning
8. Roosevelt Charles, Arthur Davis, Big Louisiana - All Teamed Up In Angola's Mule Lot
9. Willy Rafus and Gang - I Got A Hurtin' In My Right Side
10. Willy Rafus, Andy Mosely, Johnny Butler - Cleanin' This Highway
11. Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey, Robert Pete Williams - John Henry
12. Odea Matthews - Something Within Me
13. Murray Macon - Jesus Cares

Angola Prison Spirituals LP (1959)

Angola Prison Spirituals LP. Folk-Lyric Records (LFS A-6). 1959.

1. Andy Mosely with guitar accompaniment by Robert Pete Williams - I'm on My Way
2. Robert Pete Williams - Church on Fire with the Word of God
3. Robert (Guitar) Welch - What Shall I Do
4. Will Rafus, lead; Edward James, Ollis Brown, and Burnel Jones - Brother Norah
5. Tom Dutson with guitar accompaniment by Robert Pete Williams - Little School Song
6. Robert Pete Williams - Dyin' Soul
7. Roosevelt Charles - Let My People Go
8. Robert Pete Williams - So Much Is Happenin' in the News
9. Tom Dutson with guitar accompaniment by Robert Pete Williams - Dig My Grave With a Silver Spade
10. Andy Mosely (vocals and washboard,) with guitar accompaniment by Hogman Maxey - Brother Mosely Crossed the Water
11. Willy Joe, lead; Roosevelt Charles, Edward James, and Willy McGee - I'm Stranded on the Banks of Ole Jordan
12. Robert Pete Williams - I'm Goin' Back with Him When He Comes
13. Reverend Benjamin E. Osborne and congregation - The Old Ship of Zion

Negro Prison Camp Worksongs LP (1956)

Negro Prison Camp Worksongs LP. Recorded at Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas. Folkways Records (FE 4475). 1956 (recorded 1951). All tracks performed by Prisoners at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas.

1. Let Your Hammer Ring
2. Here, Rattler, Here
3. Chopping In The New Ground
4. Mighty Bright Light
5. Go Down Old Hannah
6. Grizzly Bear
7. Lost John
8. You Got To Hurry
9. I Need More Power
10. We Need Another Witness

Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons LP (1965)

Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons LP. Work Songs, Blues, Spirituals, Preaching, Toasts. Elektra (EKS-7296). 1965.

1. Johnny Jackson (lead) - Raise 'Em Up Higher (worksong)
2. Marshall Phillips - Don't Look So Downhearted Buddy (toast)
3. Joseph "Chinaman" Johnson (leader) - Move Along 'Gator (worksong)
4. Joseph "Chinaman" Johnson - Three Moore Brothers (Cante-fable)
5. Johnnie H. Robinson (first lead,) Eddie Ray Zachary (second lead) - Assassination Of The President (topical/gospel)
6. George White - Don't Be Uneasy (spiritual)
7. Jesse "G.I. Jazz" Hendricks (first lead,) Matt Williams (second lead) - Rattler (worksong)
8. Johnny Jackson (lead) - Hammer Ring (worksong)
9. Louis "Bacon & Porkchop" Houston - T.B. Bees (toast)
10. Mack Maze - If You See My Mother (blues)
11. Joseph "Chinaman" Johnson (lead) - Just Like A Tree Planted By The Water (worksong)
12. Houston Page (lead) - See How They Done My Lord (spiritual)
13. W.D. "Alec" Alexander - Daniel In The Lion's Den (preaching parody)
14. Virgil Asbury (lead) - Forty-Four Hammers (worksong)

Reverend Pearly Brown - It's A Mean Old World To Try To Live In LP (1975)

Reverend Pearly Brown - It's A Mean Old World To Try To Live In LP. Rounder Records (2011). 1975.

1. How Long Has It Been Since You Been Home?
2. The Day Is Past and Gone
3. It's A Mean Old World To Try To Live In
4. What A Time
5. Pure Religion
6. Help Me to Understand
7. How About You
8. Nothin' But Joy
9. Another Child of God Gone Home
10. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burnin'
11. Please Mommy Stay Home With Me
12. Peace Will Prevail
13. Goodbye

Rev. Pearly Brown - Georgia Street Singer LP (1961)

Rev. Pearly Brown - Georgia Street Singer LP. Spirituals with guitar accompaniment. Folk-Lyric Recording Company (FL 108). 1961.

1. God Don't Ever Change
2. Just A Closer Walk With Thee
3. You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion
4. Savior, Don't You Pass Me
5. Motherless Children
6. Oh What A Mourning
7. I Must See Jesus
8. Nobody's Fault But Mine
9. I Know It Was The Blood
10. By And By, I'm Gonna See The King
11. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
12. If I Never See You Anymore
13. Ninety-Nine And A Half Won't Do
14. It's A Mean Old World
15. The Great Speckled Bird

Tom Ashley & Tex Isley Play and Sing American Folk Music LP (1966)

Clarence Tom Ashley and Tex Isley Play and Sing American Folk Music LP. Folkways Records (FA 2350). 1966. Vocals, banjo accompaniment and second guitar by Thomas C. Ashley. Lead guitar accompaniments and autoharp by Larry "Tex" Isley.

1. May I Sleep In Your Barn Tonite Mister?
2. Rude and Rambling Man
3. Whoa, Mule
4. Faded Roses
5. Shout Little Lulu
6. The House Carpenter
7. I'm The Man That Rode The Mule Around The World
8. Wild Bill Jones
9. The Little Log Cabin in The Lane
10. Cluck, Old Hen
11. Frankie Silvers
12. The Prisoner's Song
13. Hard Luck Blues
14. Little Hillside

Frank Proffitt Sings Folk Songs LP (1962)

Frank Proffitt Sings Folk Songs LP. Folkways Records (FA 2360). 1962.

1. Beaver Dam Road
2. Cindy
3. Bo Lamkin
4. Julie Jenkins
5. George Collins
6. Ninety and Nine
7. Down in the Valley
8. Baby-O
9. Old Abe
10. Poor Ellen Smith
11. Dan Doo
12. John Hardy
13. Groundhog
14. Johnson Boys

George Pegram & Walter "Red" Parham - Pickin' and Blowin' LP (1957)

George Pegram & Walter "Red" Parham - Pickin' and Blowin' LP. Riverside Records (RLP 12-650). 1957. George Pegram, banjo and vocals; Walter Parham, mouth harp (vocals on last selection of each side by Parham).

1. Old Rattler
2. The Wreck of the Old 97
3. Lost John
4. Georgia Buck
5. Cackling Hen
6. Sourwood Mountain
7. Wildwood Flower
8. Down In the Valley
9. Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
10. Roll On Buddy
11. Old Joe Clark
12. Downfall of Paris
13. Will the Circle Be Unbroken
14. Listen to the Mocking Bird
15. Johnson's Old Grey Mule
16. Chicken Reel
17. Turkey In the Straw
18. Foggy Mountain Top

Banjo Songs of the Southern Mountains LP (1955)

Banjo Songs of the Southern Mountains LP. Riverside Records (RLP 12-610). 1955.

1. Obray Ramsey (banjo & vocals) & Henry Gentry (guitar) - Little Maggie
2. George Pegram (banjo & vocals) & Walter Parham (harmonica) - Cripple Creek
3. Harry West (banjo) & Jeanie West (guitar & vocals) - Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
4. George Pegram (banjo & vocals) & Walter Parham (harmonica) - Old Reuben
5. Harry West (banjo & vocals) & Jeanie West (guitar & vocals) - Careless Love
6. George Pegram (banjo & vocals) & Walter Parham (harmonica) - John Henry
7. "Aunt" Samantha Bumgarner (banjo & vocals) - Way Down on the Island
8. Harry West (banjo & vocals) & Jeanie West (guitar & vocals) - Awake, Awake Ye Drowsy Sleepers
9. Obray Ramsey (banjo & vocals) & Henry Gentry (guitar) - Poor Little Ellen
10. George Pegram (banjo solo) - Arkansas Traveller
11. Harry West (banjo) & Jeanie West (guitar & vocals) - The Boston Burglar
12. George Pegram (banjo & vocals) & Walter Parham (harmonica) - Good Old Mountain Dew
13. Harry West (banjo) & Jeanie West (guitar & vocals) - Lost John
14. Obray Ramsey (banjo & vocals) & Henry Gentry (guitar) - Pretty Polly
15. Harry West (banjo) & Jeanie West (guitar & vocals) - Finger Ring
16. George Pegram (banjo & vocals) & Walter Parham (harmonica) - Cumberland Gap
17. "Aunt" Samantha Bumgarner (banjo & vocals) - Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss

Pete Steele - Banjo Tunes and Songs LP (1958)

Pete Steele - Banjo Tunes and Songs LP. Folkways Records (FS 3828). 1958.

1. Ellen Smith
2. Little Birdie
3. The Train A-Pullin'
4. The Crooked Hill
5. Galilee
6. The Unclouded Days
7. Shady Grove
8. Hard Times
9. Goin' Around The World Baby Mine
10. East Virginia
11. The Cuckoo
12. The War Is A-Ragin' For Johnny
13. Coal Creek March
14. Last Pay Day at Coal Creek
15. Ida Red
16. Pretty Polly
17. The Scoldin' Wife
18. The House Carpenter

Dock Boggs - Legendary Singer & Banjo Player LP (1964)

Dock Boggs - Legendary Singer & Banjo Player LP. Folkways Records (FA 2351). 1964.

1. Down South Blues (arr. Dock Boggs)
2. Country Blues (arr. Dock Boggs)
3. Pretty Polly
4. Coal Creek March
5. My Old Horse Died (Dock Boggs)
6. Wild Bill Jones
7. Rowan County Crew
8. New Prisoner's Song
9. Oh Death
10. Prodigal Son
11. Mother's Advice
12. Drunkard's Lone Child
13. Bright Sunny South
14. Mistreated Mama Blues (arr. Dock Boggs)
15. Harvey Logan