The Rough Guides: American Roots Box [Box set]

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Today, American music encompasses a huge area of styles and owes a great deal to its diverse and colourful roots. From the banjos and fiddles typical of bluegrass, to the heart-soaring tunes of gospel, and from the French influenced Cajun music of Louisiana to the soul stirring Delta blues, this box set is an essential introduction to the roots of American music.

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The Rough Guides: American Roots Box
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    		The Rough Guides: American Roots Box
    Various Artists
    Manufacturer: World Music Network
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Blues | Styles | Music
    Memphis BluesMemphis Blues | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music
    Traditional BluesTraditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Compilations | Blues | Styles | Music
    Acoustic BluesAcoustic Blues | Blues | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Folk | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | International | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B0000AQORJ
    Release Date: 2003-08-26

    Tracks:

    1. One Step at a Time - Clifton Chenier
    2. Zydeco Boogaloo - Buckwheat Zydeco
    3. Balfa Waltz - David Doucet
    4. La'tit Cord - Jimmy C. Newman
    5. Mis M'A Fait Brailler - The Eunice Playboys
    6. Rolling Pin - Beausoleil
    7. Grande Bosco - Eddie LeJeune
    8. Bayou Pon Pon - Mike Doucet
    9. Two Step d'Am
    10. Disco et Fais Do-Do - Bruce Daigrepont
    11. Kolinda - Beausoleil
    12. Slow Horses and Fast Women - Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas, Zydeco Cha-Chas
    13. Pointe - Mamou Playboys,
    14. Fiddle Stop
    15. Jolie, Petite Blonde - Nathan Abshire
    16. Chicot Two-Step - The California Cajun Orchestra
    17. J'Etais au Bal - Jo-El Sonnier
    18. Let the Good Times Roll - Buckwheat Zydeco
    19. I Passed in Front of Your Door - D.L. Menard

    Tracks:

    1. Gospel Train - Larry Sparks
    2. Every Time You Say Goodbye - Alison Krauss, Union Station
    3. Lonesome Moonlight Waltz - The Bluegrass Album Band
    4. Matterhorn - The Country Gentlemen
    5. Hills of Home - Hazel Dickens
    6. Chicken Reel - Jim & Jesse, Virginia Boys
    7. Lonesome Wind Blues - Rhonda Vincent
    8. Hello City Limits - Red Allen,
    9. My Better Years - The Johnson Mountain Boys
    10. Shiloh - Emerson & Waldron, Cliff Waldron
    11. Rank Stranger - Clinch Mountain Boys, Tom T. Hall, Ralph Stanley
    12. Brighter Mansion - Longview
    13. Nashville Blues - J.D. Crowe, New South
    14. Sweetheart, Darlin' of Mine
    15. I've Waited as Long as I Can - Tony Rice
    16. Crossfire - B Fleck
    17. You'll Get No More of Me - Hazel Dickens
    18. You've Got the Look of a Perfect Diamond - The McCoury Brothers
    19. Can't Say Goodbey - IIIrd Tyme Out
    20. Mama's Hand - Lynn Morris
    21. I've Lived a Lot in My Time - Dry Branch Fire Squad

    Tracks:

    1. Jumper on the Line - R.L. Burnside
    2. Preaching Blues (Up Jump the Devil)
    3. Done Left Here - Mississippi Fred McDowell
    4. High Water Everywhere, Pt. 1 - Charley Patton
    5. Walkin' Blues - Son House,
    6. Sitting on Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks
    7. Country Blues - Muddy Waters
    8. Goin' Back to the Bridge - Asie Payton
    9. Last Kind Words Blues - Elvie Thomas,
    10. Catfish Blues - Robert Petway
    11. Cool Drink of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson
    12. Black Mattie - Robert Belfour
    13. Outside Woman Blues
    14. Future Blues - Willie Brown
    15. On the Wall - Louise Johnson
    16. Stack O' Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
    17. Mississippi Swamp Moan - Alfred Lewis
    18. Aberdeen Mississippi Blues - Bukka White
    19. Meet Me in the City - Junior Kimbrough
    20. That's No Way to Get Along - Robert Wilkins
    21. Banker's Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
    22. Don't Mash My Digger So Deep - Bo Carter
    23. Baby Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams
    24. I'm So Glad - Skip James

    Tracks:

    1. Christ Is All - The Soul Stirrers
    2. I Feel Good - Shirley Caesar, The Caravans
    3. Oh Lord-Stand by Me - The Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama
    4. New Home - The Staple Singers
    5. I'm on My Way to Canaan - Mahalia Jackson
    6. Move Upstairs - Bessie Griffin
    7. Heaven's Grocery Store - The Dixie Hummingbirds
    8. Keep Your Hand on the Plow
    9. Jesus Is All - The Staple Singers
    10. Run All the Way - Mahalia Jackson
    11. Life Is Like a Mountain Railroad - Dorothy Norwood, Albertina Walker
    12. I'm Willing - Inez Andrews, The Caravans, Albertina Walker
    13. Go Tell It on the Mountain - Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir
    14. Tribute to Granny - Maggie Ingram,
    15. Leaning and Depending on the Lord - Sweet Honey in the Rock
    16. Halleujah - The Fairfield Four

    Album Description

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