A survey of traditional Southern banjo techniques, styles, instrumentals and songs played solo on a variety of 23 mostly vintage banjos. Styles range from 19th-century African-American Mississippi style to a song played in the style evolved in the 1940s by Northern Carolinian Earl Scruggs. Recorded and annotated by Mike Seeger.
1 Soon in the Morning Babe
2 Josh Thomas’s Roustabout
3 Jim Crack Corn
4 Darling Cora
5 Devil’s Dream
6 Little Birdie
7 Around the World
8 Whoopin’ Up Cattle
9 Flop Eared Mule
10 Lost Gander
11 The Sailor and the Soldier
12 American Spanish Fandango
13 Got No Silver Nor Gold Blues
14 We’re Up Against It Now
15 That’s What the Old Bachelor’s Made Out of
16 Thje Last of Callahan
17 Lady Gay
18 Down South Blues
19 Last Night When My Willie Come Home
20 Wabash Blues
21 Bright Sunny South
22 Roll on John
23 Needlecase
24 Come My Little Pink
25 Battle in the Horseshoe
26 I’m Head Over Heels in Love