Art of Field Recording Volume II: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum
by Various Artists

1. Fidel Martin - La Grondeuse (The Scolding Woman) 01:55

2. Eddie Bowles - Blues 04:13

3. Frosty Lamb and Buzz Fountain - 12th Street Rag 01:44

4. Dwight "Red" Lamb - Danish Galop 01:15

5. Tony Bryant - Broke Down Engine 04:12

6. The Balfa Brothers and Nathan Abshire - J'ai Passé Devant ta Porte 02:58

7. The Balfa Brothers and Nathan Abshire - Colinda 01:38

8. Jake Staggers - Garfield 02:23

9. Bobby McMillon - The Devil Song [Child 275] 05:14

10. John W. Summers - Unnamed Tune 02:04

11. Kirk Brandenberger and Art Rosenbaum - Going Across the Prairie 03:52

12. Uncle John Patterson - Muddy Roads of Georgia 03:08

13. Cecil Barfield - Georgia Blues 05:15

14. Mary Lomax - Billy Staffer (The State of Arkansas) [Laws H1] 02:57

15. Eller Brothers - Cindy in the Summertime 02:17

16. General Lee's Surrender 02:06

17. Neal Patman - Shortnin' Bread 01:47

18. Juanita and Oscar "Shorty" Shehan - Free Little Bird 01:47

19. Juanita and Oscar "Shorty" Shehan - The Soldier and the Lady [Laws P14] 03:10

20. Shirley Griffith - Big Road Blues 02:56

21. Pete Steele - Harlan County Farewell Tune (Rambling Hobo) 01:04

22. Earl Murphy and Andy Carlson - Marmaduke's Hornpipe 02:49

23. Bert Hare - Jonah 02:54

24. Smokey McKinnis and Bob Black - Turkey in the Straw 02:32

25. Clester Hounchell - Paddy on the Turnpike 01:37

26. Anna Sandage Underhill - Play Party Songs: In this Ring / I'd Rather Be a Farmer's Boy 00:43

27. The Chancey Brothers - Mulberry Gap / Cumberland Gap 03:35

28. Louie and Henry Riendeau - Fred Rogers' Reel 01:42

29. Scrapper Blackwell - Goin' Where the Monon Crosses the Yellow Dog 04:47

30. Brown’s Chapel Choir - Welcome Home 03:16

31. Myers Family and Friends - The River of Jordan 02:11

32. Fleeta and Rev. Nathaniel Mitchell: with Lucy and Brady “Doc” Barnes - Brother, You Ought t’ve Been There 01:31

33. Georgia Sacred Harp Convention - New Prospect 02:46

34. Bert Hare - No Man Can Love Me Like Jesus 02:48

35. Ebenezer East Church - He's Calling Me 03:02

36. Gordon Tanner and Smoky Joe Miller - Out of My Bondage 03:03

37. Tickanetley Primitive Baptist Church - Mother, Tell Me of the Angels 03:00

38. Otha Cooper - No Room at the Hotel 03:53

39. The Traveling Inner Lights - Let's Have a Family Prayer 04:50

40. Golden River Grass - Over in the Glory Land 02:33

41. Rev. Willie Mae Eberhart, Sister Fleeta Mitchell and Eddie Ruth Pringle - A Charge to Keep I Have 05:44

42. Jake Staggers and Family - How Long the Train Been Gone? 02:45

43. Pilgrim's Rest Primitive Baptist Church - Lord, Remember Me 05:58

44. McIntosh County Shouters - Eve and Adam (Pickin' Up Leaves) 04:12

45. Otha Cooper and Imogene Riggens - There's a Man Going Around Taking Names 01:38

46. Lucy and Brady "Doc" Barnes - Savior, Don't You Pass Me By 04:16

47. Laethe Eller and Berthie Rogers - Oh That Terrible Day 03:39

48. Cora Thompson - I Know I Got Religion 03:15

49. Silver Light Gospel Singers - Dry Bones 05:11

50. House of God, Sarasota, Florida - Walk With Me 08:09

51. The Chancey Brothers - I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground 04:05

52. The Eller Family - Going to Georgia 03:04

53. George Gibson - Southern Texas 03:07

54. Lucy and Brady "Doc" Barnes - Raise a Ruckus Tonight 03:01

55. Lawrence Eller and Ross Brown - The Rambling Boy (Laws L12) 02:05

56. Shorty Ralph Reynolds - Want to Go to Cuba, Can't Go Now 02:34

57. Ola Belle Reed - The Boat's Up the River 01:17

58. Pat Hudson - Hog Drivers 03:07

59. W. Guy Bruce - As I Walked Out One Morning in Spring 01:13

60. Gordon Tanner and Smoky Joe Miller - Devilish Mary 02:42

61. Buell Kazee - Barbara Allen (Child 84) 06:40

62. Jack Bean - Steamboat Bill 02:15

63. Lawrence Eller and Ross Brown - John Henry (Laws I1) 03:35

64. Mose Parker - John Henry (Laws I1) 04:07

65. Willard Benson - John Hardy (Laws I2) 02:54

66. Myers Family and Friends - Old Joe Clark 03:04

67. Dr. C.B. Skelton - The Miller's Will (Laws Q21) 05:34

68. Lawrence Eller - On Top of Old Smoky 03:50

69. Pete Steele - Last Payday at Coal Creek 03:08

70. Helen McDuffie and Leasie Whitmire - The Wreck on the CC&O Toad (Laws G3) 05:02

71. Buzz Fountain - Quit that Ticklin' Me 01:32

72. Mabel Cawthorn - Going Up the Country (Some Kind of Blues) 02:44

73. Myers Family and Friends - Talking Blues 01:46

74. The Eller Brothers and Ross Brown - Don't Go Riding Down that Old Texas Trail 02:04

75. Jack Bean - Ring Ching Ching 03:47

76. Mary Lomax - Fair and Tender Maidens 02:08

77. Virgil Sandage - The Bird's Song 01:07

78. Anna Sandage Underhill - The Elfin Knight (Child 2) 02:37

79. Stan Gilliam - Gypsy Davy (Child 200) 01:19

80. Mary Lomax - Black Jack Davy (Child 200) 02:05

81. Ray Rhodes - Black Jack Davy (Child 200) 01:09

82. Oscar "Doc" Parks - The Battle of Stone River 03:57

83. The Phillips Wonders - Froggy Went A-Courting 01:44

84. Mary Heekin - The Factory Girl 02:41

85. Jim Cook - I’m a Noble Soldier 01:50

86. Anna Sandage Underhill - The Young Man’s Lament 02:36

87. Vern Smelser - The Butcher’s Boy [Laws P24] 01:46

88. Ollie Gilbert - Lady Lye [Child 79] 02:24

89. Stan Gilliam - Lullabies 00:45

90. Ollie Gilbert - Utah Carl [Laws B4] 06:09

91. Mary Ruth Moore - Billy Button 02:11

92. Oneitha Ellison and Group - Ring Plays 04:31

93. Mr. and Mrs. Lazore - Mohawk Love Song 01:57

94. Alice Gerrard - Shenandoah 01:43

95. Greg and Lala Brown - Two Little Boys 03:34

96. Mary Lomax - Down in the Arkansas 01:32

97. Bonnie Loggins - I’ll Drink and Be Jolly 01:13

98. Brady ”Doc” Barnes - We’ll March Around the Wall 01:32

99. Vern Smelser - John Came Home [Child 274] 03:09

100. Margaret Kimmett - The Farm Out West 02:09

101. Ray Rhodes - Frankie and Johnny [Laws I3] 01:55

102. Della Mae Reedy - The Farmer’s Son Mistress 02:11

103. Maude Thacker - The Famous Wedding [Laws P31] 01:28

104. Stan Gilliam - Sail Away, Lady / Greenback 01:42

105. Sudie Parks - The Lame Soldier 02:31

106. Oscar “Doc” Parks - Pearl Bryan [Laws F2] 03:54

107. Bonnie Loggins - Sing, Sing, What’ll I Sing? 00:21



"Art Rosenbaum is a folk revivalist of the old school. He believes that traditional ballads, blues, spirituals, and fiddle tunes are among the glories of American culture. Last fall, Dust-to-Digital released Art of Field Recording: Volume I, a four-CD retrospective of Rosenbaum’s work. It contained everything from ring shouts and murder ballads to a song about twenty frogs going to school. It was full of throaty voices and clanging banjos and the incidental music of daily life—babies crying, bar glasses clinking, cicadas on a summer night." — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker

Art of Field Recording Volume II is a four disc set with a 96 page book that contains essays and annotations by Art and over 100 illustrations and photographs by Art and his wife Margo. Art took a similar approach to Harry Smith in assembling the music: the discs are divided into Accompanied Songs and Ballads, Unaccompanied Songs and Ballads, Sacred, and a Survey disc that has a little bit of everything.
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released January 6, 2009

Produced by: Steven Lance Ledbetter, Art Rosenbaum

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