Classic Sides 1937-1941

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 is the second box the label has issued charting 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. This installment covers the years 1937 to 1941 and features tracks cut as the Mountaineers and the Smilin' Rangers, among others, with the usual associates, including J.E. Mainer, Wade Mainer, Zeke Morris, and ace fiddler Steve Ledford. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	03/23/2010
Label:	Jsp Records
UPC:	0788065712426
Rank:	87938

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Carry Your Cross with a Smile
2. Swing the Door of Your Heart Open Wide
3. Answer to Greenback Dollar
4. There's a Green Hill Far Away
5. Miss Me When I'm Gone
6. Floating Down the Stream of Time
7. Don't Go Out
8. Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind
9. Kiss Me Cindy
10. Your Best Friend Is Always Near
11. Lamp Lighting Time in Heaven
12. When the Light's Gone Out in Your Soul
13. I Once Loved a Young Man
14. Somebody Cares
15. I'm Living the Right Life Now
16. Just Over in the Glory Land
17. I'm in the Gloryland Way
18. If I Lose, Let Me Lose
19. Great Reaping Day
20. Oh Why Did I Ever Get Married
21. Back to Johnson City
22. Ramshackle Shack
23. Memory Lane
24. Wild Bill Jones
25. I Want to Be Loved

Disc 2

26. What Are You Going to Do Brother?
27. Companions Draw Nigh
28. Mountain Sweetheart
29. Don't Forget Me Little Darling
30. Lonely Tomb
31. Pale Moonlight
32. All My Friends
33. Don't Get Too Deep in Love
34. Don't Leave Me Alone
35. I Won't Be Worried
36. Where Romance Calls
37. Another Alabama Camp Meetin'
38. Mitchell Blues
39. Farther Along
40. Dear Loving Mother and Dad
41. Can't Tell About These Women
42. That Kind
43. If I Had Listened to Mother
44. She Is Spreading Her Wings for a Journey
45. The Same Old You to Me
46. Life's Ev'nin' Sun
47. Mother Still Prays for You Jack
48. You're Awfully Mean to Me
49. Home in the Sky
50. A Little Love

Disc 3

51. North Carolina Moon
52. More Good Women Gone Wrong
53. Sparkling Blue Eyes
54. We Will Miss Him
55. I Left My Home in the Mountains
56. I Met Her at a Ball One Night
57. You May Forsake Me
58. Look on and Cry
59. One Little Kiss
60. Mama Don't Make Me Go to Bed
61. Crying Holy
62. Heaven Bells Are Ringing
63. Sparkling Blue Eyes No. 2
64. The Poor Drunkard's Dream
65. Were You There?
66. The Gospel Cannonball
67. The Great and Final Judgement
68. What a Wonderful Saviour Is He
69. Why Not Make Heaven Your Home
70. Mansions in the Sky
71. Not a Word of That Be Said
72. Drifting Through an Unfriendly World
73. Shake My Mother's Hand for Me
74. Anywhere Is Home
75. I Can Tell You the Time

Disc 4

76. He Gave His Life
77. Ramblin' Boy
78. The Precious Jewel
79. Old Reuben
80. Precious Memories
81. Since I Met My Mother-in-Law
82. Bachelor Blues
83. Only a Broken Heart
84. Happy or Lonesome
85. Darling I'm Still in Love with You
86. No Letter in the Mail Today
87. Come Back, Sweetheart
88. I Hope She's Satisfied
89. Happy-Go-Lucky Breakdown
90. What-Cha Gonna Go with the Baby?
91. Garden of Prayer
92. Dream of the Miner's Child
93. Little Nellie
94. One Little Word
95. Wabash Cannon Ball No. 2
96. It's Blues
97. Gabriel's Trumpet
98. Drunkard's Hiccoughs
99. Country Blues
100. Concord Rag

Album Credits

Performance Credits

J.E. Mainer   Primary Artist,Vocals,Fiddle
Wiley Morris   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guitar
Zeke Morris   Primary Artist,Mandolin,Vocals,Guitar
Steve Ledford & the Mountaineers   Primary Artist
Wade Mainer & the Sons of the Mountaineers   Primary Artist
Clyde Moody   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Mandolin
Jay Hugh Hall   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Vocal Harmony
Wade Mainer & His Little Smilin' Rangers   Primary Artist
J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers   Primary Artist
Steve Ledford   Primary Artist,Vocals,Fiddle,String Bass
The Morris Brothers   Primary Artist
The Happy-Go-Lucky Boys   Primary Artist
Wade Mainer   Banjo,Vocals,Harmonica
Julia Mainer   Vocals,Yodeling
Curley Shelton   Vocals,Mandolin
DeWitt Jenkins   Banjo
Jack Shelton   Guitar,Vocals
Leonard Stokes   Vocals,Mandolin
Dan Hornsby   Vocals
Eunice Ayers   Vocals
Tiny Dodson   Fiddle
Morris "Buddy" Banks   Vocals,Mandolin
Robert "Buck" Banks   Guitar,Vocals
George Morris   Vocals,Guitar

Technical Credits

Pat Harrison   Annotation
Zeke Morris   Duet
Wiley Morris   Duet