Side A
Artist	Song
Louis Armstrong	St. Louis Blues
Bessie Smith w/ Louis Armstrong	St. Louis Blues
Weaver & Beasley	St. Louis Blues
Big Bill Broonzy	C&A Blues
Tom T. Hall	St. Louis Named a Shoe After Me
Skip Battin	St. Louis Browns
Doc & Merle Watson	Take Me Out to the Ballgame
John Hartford	Miss Ferris
Son Volt	Tear Stained Eye
Uncle Tupelo	New Madrid
John Hartford	Living in the Mississippi Valley
Norman Blake	Walnut River
Neil Young	Cripple Creek Ferry
The Band	Get Up Jake
Michelle Shocked	Over the Waterfall
Michael Martin Murphey & Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Lost River
Doc Watson	Miss the Mississippi and You
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Robert Nighthawk	Kansas City Blues
John Hartford	Steam Powered Aereo-Plane
Bad Livers	My Old Man
Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers	Soldier's Joy
Neil Young	Comes a Time
John Hartford	Indian War Whoop
Roger McGuinn & Chris Hillman	You Ain't Going Nowhere
Bob Dylan	Time Passes Slowly
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Wabash Cannonball
Country Gentlemen	Jesse James
The Dillards	Old Home Place
Norman Blake	Northern Winds
The Byrds	Goin' Back
Van Morrison	Got to Go Back
Muddy Waters	Feel Like Going Home (acoustic version)
The Band	When You Awake
Grandpa	The Tom Simpson Piece
John Denver & Nitty Gritty D.B.	So It Goes
Squirrel Nut Zippers	St. Louis Cemetery Blues

Comment:

I grew up in St. Louis with roots deep in the Ozarks. I live about 700 miles from that area now, but it's still my spiritual home. I guess the place where you grow up always has a claim on your soul. This tape is an ode to lost youth, to my family,* and a meditation on passing time.

* Wabash Cannonball is for my paternal grandfather who used to work there, and the Tom Simpson Piece is by my maternal grandfather who is playing the fiddle on a tape made by a field recorder (who can be heard introducing the tune and playing the pump organ - unfortunately the sound on this cut is not the best).

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