On a hot August day in 1958 in Delaney, Arkansas, a group of local musicians joined David Mangurian and Don Hill for an impromptu recording session in a bare-walled room at the back of the local schoolhouse. The guitar playing, foot stomping, and washboard-woodblock playing was interrupted only twice: once for a cooling swim in the nearby White River, and again for dinner. Older townsfolk and younger musicians many of whom had never seen a tape recorder before produced a range of old tunes combined with the modern influences of country and western recording artists and amplification. Liner notes include a vivid description of the recording session and an introduction to the country music of the Folkways Records catalogue.

Tracklist:

Weepin' Willow
Spanish Two-Step
Delaney Boogie
Wildwood Flower
Raunchy
Casey Jones
The Wreck Of the Old 97
Thomas Cat
Cash On the Barrel Head
Flop Eared Mule
Red Wing
Carroll County Blues
When The Saints Go Marching In
Virgil's Fiddle
Kentucky Waltz
Skip To My Lou
Soldier's Joy
SPanish SOng
Isle Of Capri
Down Yonder
Let Her Go, Rachel
Sally Goodin'
Announcement Of Players
Cripple Creek
Old Joe Clark
Sally Ann Johnson
Fort Smith/Rabbit In the Grass
Daisies In the Loft
Lone Star Rag
She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain
Ragtime Annie
San Antonio Rose
Red WIng
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
Premiere Quadrille
Jingle Bells
Home Sweet Home
Casey Jones
Red Wing
Dry And Dusty
Aunt Katy (Old Aunt Katy)
In the Pines
On Top Of Old Smokey

UPC: 093070381223
Label: Folkways Records
Release Date: 6.12.07
Format: CD

Music From The Ozarks - Music From The Ozarks (CD)