CLOSE TO HOME: Old Time Music from Mike Seeger's Collection, 1952-1967

In the 1950's and sixties musician-collector Mike Seeger, inspired by the great folksong collectors of the 1930's, visited traditional musicians of the rural South. This is his handpicked selection of the recordings made during those visits. Included in the 38 selections are previously unreleased recordings by the well-known Sara & Maybelle Carter, Arthur Smith, Elizabeth Cotten, and Dock Boggs, as well as treasures by lesser-known artists. The enclosed booklet contains photographs and notes on the performance, which include virtuoso fiddle, banjo, and guitar music, unaccompanied ballad singing, and a story-teller entertaining his buddies in a fiddler's convention parking lot.

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In the Sweet Bye and Bye Elizabeth Cotten 01:24

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Tie Your Dog, Sally Gal Will Adam 02:41

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Banjo Instrumental J.C. "Cleve" Sutphin 02:01

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Lost Train Blues V.L. Sutphin 01:16

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Shortening Bread V.L. And Cleve Sutphin 01:45

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The Train That Carried My Girl from Town V.L. And Cleve Sutphin 01:30

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Old Gambling Man J.J. Neece 03:24

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John Henry J.J. Neece, Cleve and V.L. Sutphin 02:16

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Shout Little Lulu Louise Foreacre 00:51

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He Will Set Your Fields on Fire Kilby Snow 02:19

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Gather in the Golden Grain Ernest V. and Hattie Stoneman 00:53

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Going to Lay Down My Burdens Elizabeth White and Gideon Craig 01:42

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John Henry Lesley Riddle 02:26

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Pretty Fair Damsel Clarence Ashley 02:29

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It's These Hard Times Pearly "Grandma" Davis 01:23

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Old Time Reel Pearly "Grandma" Davis and Oliver Davis 02:13

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Jackson Schottische A.L. Hall 02:12

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Lone Prairie Wade Ward 01:36

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Molly Put the Kettle On Wade Ward 01:23

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Last Gold Dollar Edsel Martin and Bill McElreath 01:43

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John Henry Bill and Jean Davis 01:11

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Three Nights Drunk (Our Goodman) The Blue Ridge Buddies with E.C. and Orna Ball 02:36

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Jimmie Sutton The Blue Ridge Buddies with E.C. and Orna Ball 01:44

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Going to Lay Down My Old Guitar Snuffy Jenkins and Ira Dimmery 00:59

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Black Mountain Rag The McGee Brothers and Arthur Smith 02:21

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A Talk on the World Clyde Lewis 04:52

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Red Wing Lost John Ray and Walt Koken 00:53

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Leather Britches Eck Robertson and the New Lost City Ramblers 03:02

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Blackberry Blossom Sherman Lawson 02:01

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Alabama Gals Emmett Cole 00:59

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Old Joe Clark George Landers 00:50

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Sugar Baby Dock Boggs 02:41
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Queen Sally Archie Sturgill 01:47

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Poor Orphan Kate Peters Sturgill 03:09

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My Virginia Rose Scott Boatright 02:19

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I'm Leaving You Sara Carter Bayes and Maybelle Carter 02:38

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He Said If You Love Me, Feed My Sheep The Stancer Quartet 02:56


I Would Not Live Always Clarence Ferrill 01:32