1935-1939: The Early Recordings

by J.E. Mainer

Overview

Brothers J.E. and Wade Mainer and their various bands and configurations formed a kind of bridge between the Appalachian string bands of the 1920s and the high-powered bluegrass bands that emerged after World War II. This 100-track box set from JSP charts the early years of this oftentimes dueling and quarreling pair in their various guises, sometimes together, sometimes not, and, more often than not, working with guitarist Zeke Morris as the Mountaineers, the Dixie Reelers, or the Morris Brothers. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	03/24/2009
Label:	Jsp
UPC:	0788065711825
Rank:	97002

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Ship Sailing Now
2. This World Is Not My Home
3. Maple on the Hill
4. Take Me in the Lifeboat
5. Seven and a Half
6. New Curly Headed Baby
7. Let Her Go God Bless Her
8. City on the Hill
9. The Longest Train
10. Writer a Letter to Mother
11. Lights in the Valley
12. Goin' Back West in the Fall
13. New Lost Train Blues
14. Number 111
15. I Am Walking in the Light
16. Don't Cause Mother's Hair to Turn Grey
17. When I Reach My Home Eternal
18. Fatal Wreck of the Bus
19. Behind the Parlor Door
20. Satisfied
21. One to Love Me
22. On a Cold Winter Night
23. John Henry Was a Little Boy
24. The Old and Faded Picture
25. Take Me Home to the Sweet Sunny South

Disc 2

26. Walk That Lonesome Valley
27. Got a Home in That Rock
28. Johnson's Old Grey Mule
29. Won't Be Worried Long
30. Goin' Down the River of Jordan
31. Why Do You Bob Your Hair Girls?
32. Watermelon on the Vine
33. We Can't Be Darlings Anymore
34. Tell Mother I'll Meet Her
35. In a Little Village Churchyard
36. Come Back to Your Dobie Shack
37. Just as the Sun Went Down
38. What Would You Give in Exchange
39. A Leaf from the Sea
40. Brown Eyes
41. Maple on the Hill, Pt. 2 (Driftin' to That Happy Home)
42. Going to Georgia
43. Nobody's Darlin But Mine
44. Mother Came to Get Her Boy from Jail
45. Where the Red, Red Roses Grow
46. Cradle Days
47. Gathering Flowers from the Hills
48. My Mother Is Waiting
49. If I Could Hear My Mother
50. Nobody's Darling on Earth

Disc 3

51. Shake Hands with Mother
52. They Said My Lord Was a Devil
53. Won't Somebody Pal with Me
54. Hop Along Peter
55. Just One Way to the Pearly Gates
56. Dear Daddy You're Gone
57. Been Foolin' Me Baby
58. I'll Be a Friend of Jesus
59. Cowboy's Pony in Heaven
60. Little Birdie
61. Always Been a Rambler
62. Starting Life Anew with You
63. Little Rosebuds
64. Train Carry My Girl Back Home
65. In the Land Beyond the Blue
66. A Change All Around
67. Short Life and It's Trouble
68. Dying Boy's Prayer
69. Free Again
70. Answer to "Two Little Rosebuds"
71. I'm Not Turning Backward
72. Riding on That Train Forty-Five
73. Little Maggie
74. Little Pal
75. Down in the Willow

Disc 4

76. My Wife Went Away and Left Me
77. Railroad Blues
78. Over the Hills in Carolina
79. Budded Roses
80. What Makes Him Do It
81. My Little Red Ford
82. I Am Dreaming of Mother
83. Cotton Mill Blues
84. Blue Days
85. No Place Like Home
86. Homeless Child
87. Where Is My Mama?
88. What a Friend We Have in Mother
89. My Heart Is Broken for You
90. Answer to Maple on the Hill, Pt. 2
91. Lonesome Valley, Pt. 2
92. Walkin' in My Sleep
93. Father, Dear Father
94. I Shall Not Be Moved
95. Do You Want to See Mother Again?
96. Darling Think What You Have Done
97. The Story of Charlie Lawson
98. The Great Speckled Bird
99. Just How Pretty You Smile
100. Married Woman Blues

Album Credits

Performance Credits

J.E. Mainer   Primary Artist,Fiddle,Vocals
Wade Mainer   Primary Artist,Banjo,Vocals,Harmonica
Zeke Morris   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Mandolin
J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers   Primary Artist,Spoken Word
The Morris Brothers   Primary Artist
Daddy John Love   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Dixie Reelers   Primary Artist
Clarence Todd   Vocals,Guitar,Fiddle,Banjo
Homer "Pappy" Sherrill   Fiddle,Vocals
Wiley Morris   Guitar,Vocals
George Morris   Guitar,Vocals
Beacham Blackweller   Guitar,Vocals
Harold Blackweller   Vocals
Harold Christy   Guitar
Howard Bumgardner   Guitar,Vocals
Junior Misenheimer   Banjo
Norwood Tew   Vocals
Ollie Bunn   Banjo,Fiddle,Guitar,Vocals,Banjo,Fiddle,Guitar,Vocals
Leonard Stokes   Vocals,Mandolin
Steve Ledford   Fiddle,Vocals

Technical Credits

Wiley Morris   Duet
Zeke Morris   Duet
Wade Mainer   Duet
Chris Thomas King   Transfers
Pat Harrison   Liner Notes