On any Saturday night, rollicking down-home music can be heard throughout the USA, be it bluegrass, blues, boogie woogie, country, Cajun, zydeco, Texas swing, or Texas Mexican conjunto. Down Home Saturday Night has them all. Smithsonian Folkways archivist Jeff Place compiled these 15 tracks of American regional and ethnic roots music with one idea in mind: to bring people together and have fun with music and musicians from across the land.
1 Minglewood Blues – John Sebastian and the J Band with Geoff Muldaur
2 White House Blues – Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys
3 Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme – Balfa Toujours
4 El Sinaloense – Mingo Saldã-Var y y Sus Tremendos Cuatro Espadas
5 Twenty-Four Hours a Day – Erbie Bowser, T.D. Bell, and the Blues Specialists
6 Big Ball’s in Cowtown – the Texas Playboys
7 Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie – Memphis Slim
8 Bill Morgan and His Gal – the New Lost City Ramblers
9 You Keep on Doggin’ Me – Sonny Terry, J.C. Burris, and Sticks McGhee
10 Bosco Stomp – Nonc Allie Young, Bessyl Duhon, and Rodney Balfa 3:02
11 Walking Blues – Arbee Stidham, Memphis Slim, and Jump Jackson
12 Hey Bartender, There’s a Bug in My Beer – Warner Williams and Eddie Pennington
13 Oh Baby, You Don’t Have to Go – the Chambers Brothers
14 Chiquitos Pero Picos – los Polkeros de Ben Tavera King
15 Uncle Bud – Boozoo Chavis and the Magic Sounds