Artist	Song
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	That's What I Like About the South
Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers	Sweet Sunny South
Willie Nelson	Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia
Kelly Willis	Talk Like That
W. Lee O'Daniel and His Light Crust Doughboys	Doughboys Theme
W. Lee O'Daniel and His Hillbilly Boys	Ida (Sweet as Apple Cider)
Vasser Clements	Hillbilly Jazz
Elvis, Scotty & Bill	That's All Right
Southern Culture on the Skids	Voodoo Cadillac
Howlin' Wolf	Cadillac Daddy
Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller)	Pontiac Blues
James 'Beale Street' Clark	Who But You
Noble Sissle & His Orchestra (featuring Sidney Bechet)	Dear Old Southland
Louis Armstrong	When It's Sleepy Time Down South
O.V. Wright	A Nickle and a Nail
Staple Singers	I'll Take You There
Ralph Stanley, Alison Krauss, Judy Miller	Heaven's Bright Shore
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	It's Mighty Dark to Travel (alt. take)
Ernest V. Stoneman's Trio	Untitled
John Hartford	Let Him Go On Mama
Lucinda Williams	Louisiana Man
D.L. Menard	The Back Door
The Wild Tchoupitoulas	Brother John
Professor Longhair	Crawfish Fiesta
The Allman Brothers Band	Southbound

Comment:

Volume 4 in the continuing series. A panoramic view of the inexhaustible variety of Southern music, old and new. Thanx and a tip o' the Stetson to my good friend Gerry McD for Sweet Sunny South, a fine song by a wonderful band. Charlie Poole was a progenitor of the North Carolina three-finger style of banjo picking that culminated in the great Earl Scruggs (who appears here on the Blue Grass Boys track). The Wolf (Sun) and Sonny Boy (Trumpet) sides are from their Memphis days -- a little rawer than their Chess sides. W. Lee 'Pappy" O'Daniel, started the band to advertise his flour, wound up governor of Texas. The James Clark track is interesting, a blues number with clarinet accompaniment. I included the Ernest V. Stoneman track because the old-timey fiddling reminded me of my grandfather, an old country fiddler himself. The Hartford track is one of my favorites, a character study of an old-time old-fashioned river man. And yes, I managed to include a "hillbilly" track, a swinging number from fiddle wiz Vassar Clements, alumnus of the Blue Grass Boys, John Hartford's Aereo-Plain band, Old & In the Way, Will the Circle be Unbroken, and many, many other projects. Enjoy, y'all.

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