Maybelle Carter (autoharp/vocals) June , Helen and Anita Carter (chorus)
Queen of The Auto-Harp (Kapp Records KL-3413) 1964

Lover's Return:  Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters

Clarence Ashley (banjo/vocals) Doc Watson (guitar/harmonica) Clint Howard (guitar) Fred Price (fiddle)Recorded Los Angels, Cal., April 1962, R.C. Ralph Rinzler
Folkways Records FA-2359 (1962)

Free Little Bird: Clarence Ashley, Clint Howard, Doc Watson and Fred Price

Tom Ashley (vocals) Doc Watson and Clint Howard (guitars) Fred Price (fiddle) Jack Johnson (banjo)
Old Time Music At Clarence Ashley's (Folkways Records FA-2355)


Honey Babe Blues: Tom Ashley

From LP album "Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs" (Folkways Records FA-2483 ) 1962
Photo: Woody Guthrie with the Almanac Singers. Though Cisco Houston never recorded with the Almanacs, he was a close friend and regular performing partner. 
[back row] Sis Cunningham (Agnes), Woody Guthrie, Bess Hawes [front row] Cisco Houston, Pete Seeger.

Nine Hundred Miles: Woody Guthrie (fiddle) Cisco Houston (guitar)

House Of The Rising Sun: Woody Guthrie

Tony Rice (gutar/vocals) Tom Gray (bass) Ricky Skaggs (fiddle) Mike Auldridge (dobro) 
Recorded at Track Recorders, Silver Spring, Maryland on September 1974
Seven Seas GFX-6008 (1976)
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California Autumn: Tony Rice

Ramblin' Jack Elliott Sings Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers
Monitor Records MF-380 (1962) http://goo.gl/57BIvP

Do-Re-Mi / Waitin' For A Train: Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Sara Carter (guitar/vocals) Maybelle Carter (guitar/vocals) 
Recorded in Chicago, IL, Oct 4, 1940.
Harmony/Columbia HL-7300 (1963)

Meeting In The Air: The Carter Family

Bill Monroe (mandolin/vocals) Earl Scruggs (banjo)  Lester Flatt (guitar) Chubby Wise (fiddle) Bill Westbrook (bass)
Recorded in Chicago, Illinois October 28, 1947
Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys 16 All-Time Greatest Hits
Columbia CS-1065 (1970)

Molly And Tenbrooks: Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys

Bill Monroe (mandolin/vocals) Chubby Wise (fiddle) Earl Scruggs (banjo) Lester Flatt (guitar) Howard Watts (bass)
Recoded in Chicago, Illinois September 16, 1946
The Great Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys (Harmony HL-7290, Columbia HL-7290)

Blue Moon Of Kentucky: Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys

Bea Lilly (guitar/voclas)  Everett Lilly (mandolin/vocals) Everett Alan Lilly (bass)
Prestige Folklore FL-14035 (1964)

Dig A Hole In The Meadow: The Lily Brothers

Roscoe Holcomb (banjo/vocals) Smithsonian Folkways FW-2368 (1965)


Swanno Mountain: Roscoe Holcomb

Clark Kessinger (fiddle) Gene Meade (guitar) Wayne Hauser (banjo)
Folk Promotions FP-828 (1965)

Ragtime Annie: Clark Kessinger

Out of the Blues: The Best of David Bromberg
Columbia PC-34467 (1977)
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Mr. Bojangles: David Bromberg

Mississippi John Hurt (guitar/vocals) Recorded in 1964
Vanguard VSD-79220 (1966)

Louis Collins: Mississippi John Hurt

Joe Drye (fiddle) Carson Cooper (banjo) James Lindsey (mandolin) Jim McKinnon (guitar) Thurman Pugh (bass)
The Mountain Ramblers with Joe Drye (1969)

Cripple Creek: Joe Drye and The Mountain Ramblers

 Bill Monroe's 7th Annual Bluegrass Festival "Bean Blossom" 1973
Curly Ray Cline, Clarence "Tater" Tate, Tex Logan, Kenny Baker, and the other eight fiddlers play simultaneously on three instrumental standards, "Soldier's Joy," "Grey Eagle," and "Down Yonder," backing Monroe on the album's final track, a lively and unforgettable "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." 


Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys

Iris DeMent (vocals) David Mansfield (fiddle)
Songcatcher - Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture (Vanguard 79586-2) 2001

Pretty Saro: Iris DeMent

Sung in the Old Regular Baptist Church at Jeff, Perry County, Kentucky, 1959 
Recorded by John Cohen (Mountain Music of Kentucky: Folkways FA-2317 Released 1960)
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Mountain Music of Kentucky

Amazing Grace: Old Regular Baptist Church

Earl Taylor (mandolin/vocals) Walter Hensley (banjo) Walter Hensley (guitar) Vernon "Boatwhistle" McIntyre (bass)
From Mountain Music Bluegrass Style (1959) Folkways 2318

Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonain Folkways Recordings

White House Blues: Earl Taylor And The Stoney Mountain Boys

Charlie Monroe (vocals/guiter) and Bill Monroe (vocals/mandolin)
Originally released on Bluebird "buff" label on February 24, 1937

Legendary Collection (1936-38) [Disc 2]

The Saints Go Marching In: The Monroe Brothers

Written by Stephen Foster 1954, Sung by Drew Nelson
Dark River: Songs Of The Civil War Era (Blue Corn Music BCM-1103)

Dark River: Songs From The Civil War Era

Hard Times Come Again No More: Drew Nelson

From CD album "Dark River" 2011 https://goo.gl/zmsmrt

Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier: Erin Ivey

Lesley Riddle (guitar/vocals) Recorded on July in 1976 
Classic Appalachian Blues From Smithsonian Folkways (Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40198) 2010

Classic Appalachian Blues from Smithsonian Folkways

Red River Blues: Lesley Riddle

Peg Leg Sam Jackson (blues harp/vocals)
Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40198

Walking Cane: Peg Leg Sam Jackson

Recorded on February in 1938 (Bluebird B-8219)

Mollie Married A Travelin' Man: J. H. Howell's Carolina Hillbillies

Jim McReynolds (guitar/vocals) Jesse McReynolds (mandolin/vocals) Allen Shelton (dobro) Roy Husky Jr. (bass) Carl Jackson (fiddle/guitar)
CD album "Songs From the Homeplace"  (Pinecastle 1082) 1998

Songs From The Homeplace

Worried Man Blues: Jim & Jesse

Jim McReynolds (guitar/vocals) Jesse McReynolds (mandolin/vocals) Emmylou Harris (vocals) Allen Shelton (dobro) Roy Husky Jr. (bass) Carl Jackson (fiddle/guitar)
CD album "Songs From the Homeplace" (Pinecastle 1082) 1998

Faded Love and Winter Roses: Jim & Jesse with Emmylou Harris

Clarence White (guitar) Roland White (mandolin) Billy Ray Lathum (banjo) Roger Bush (bass)
On January 15, 1965 at the "Ark Club" in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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