| Other author/creator | Barbecue Bob, 1902-1931, composer. |
| Other author/creator | Carter, A. P. (Alvin Pleasant), 1891-1960, composer. |
| Other author/creator | Cohen, John, 1932-2019, instrumentalist, writer of accompanying material. |
| Other author/creator | Hutchison, Frank, 1897-1945, composer. |
| Other author/creator | Stanley, Carter, composer. |
| Other author/creator | Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings. |
| Contents |
Swanno mountain (3:14) -- Across the rocky mountain (5:19) -- Graveyard blues (2:57) -- Single girl (2:58) -- Little Maggie (2:58) -- Born and raised in Covington (2:14) -- Barbara Allen blues (1:26) -- Coal Creek (1:28) -- Rock Island prison (1:31) -- I am a man of constant sorrow / Carter Stanley (2:56) -- Combs Hotel burned down (2:29) -- The hills of Mexico (2:29) -- Knife guitar (1:14) -- Mississippi heavy water blues / Robert Hicks (2:13) -- Coney Isle / Frank Hutchison (1:47) -- Train that carried my girl from town / Frank Hutchison (1:58) -- Milk cow blues / Kakamo Arnold (2:06) -- Black Eye Susie (1:11) -- Darling Cory (3:37) -- I ain't got no sugar baby now (2:47) -- Sitting on top of this world (2:39) -- Frankie and Johnnie (5:08) -- Foggy mountain top / A.P. Carter (1:48) -- Fair miss in the garden (3:49) -- Willow garden (3:23) -- True love (6:24). |
| General note | Originally issued as compact disc. |
| Performer |
Roscoe Holcomb, voice, banjo, guitar, knife guitar, harmonica, and fiddle ; John Cohen, guitar (tracks 4 and 25). |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded, variously, in Cambridge, MA (1953, 1973), New York (1961, 1964), and on the performer's front porch in Daisy, KY (1972). |
