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Album Info
Release Date: 1995Label: Rhino Records
Track 1 recorded at Castle Studio, Nashville, Oct. 15, 1950 / Decca single #46283, Dec. 18, 1950Track 2 recorded in Cincinnati, Dec. 11, 1949 / Mercury single #6247, Apr. 1950
Track 3 recorded at Bradley Studio, Nashville, Aug. 9, 1953 / Mercury single #70217, Aug. 20, 1953
Track 4 recorded at Castle Studio, Nashville, June 13, 1952 / Capitol single #2233, Sept. 29, 1952
Track 5 recorded in Nashville, Jan. 13, 1960 / Decca single #31157, ca. Sept. 7, 1960
Track 6 recorded at Bradley's Barn, Nashville, Nov. 16, 1967 / Decca single #32242, Dec. 25, 1967
Track 7 recorded at Bradley Studio, Nashville, Sept. 4, 1954 / Decca single #29289, Oct. 4, 1954
Track 8 recorded at Radio Station WNER, Live Oak, FL, 1960 / Originally recorded for the "Jim Walter Jamboree" radio show; first issued on the album "On Radio, Vol.1", County #780, Nov. 23, 1983
Track 9 recorded at Columbia Studio, Nashville, Sept. 24, 1962 / Columbia single #42606, Oct. 12, 1962
Track 10 recorded at World Pacific Studios, Hollywood, (prob) late 1962 / Elektra single #45003, 1963
Track 11 recorded at World Pacific Studios, Hollywood, Feb. 25, 1964 / From the album "Appalachian Swing!", World Pacific #1821, Apr. 20, 1964
Track 12 recorded at Capitol Transcriptions Studios, Washington D.C., late 1959 / From the album "Country Songs, Old And New", Folkways #2409, 1960
Track 13 recorded at Tracy Schwarz's house, Glenrock, PA, Dec. 10, 1967 / From the album "Del McCoury Sings Bluegrass", Arhoolie #5006, 1968
Track 14 recorded in Clayton, GA,, May 16, 1971 / Warner Bros. Single #7659, Nov. 15, 1972
Track 15 recorded at Woodland Sound Studios, Nashville, Aug. 1971 / From the album "Will The Circle Be Unbroken", United Artists #9801, Oct. 2, 1972
Track 16 recorded at Track Recorders, Silver Spring, MD, Jan. 1975 / From the album "The New South", Rounder #0044, Aug. 1975
Track 17 recorded at Studio By The Pond, Hendersonville, TN & Enactron Truck, Los Angeles, 1979 / From the album "Sweet Temptation", Sugar Hill #3706, 1979
Track 18 recorded at Nashville Sound Connection, Nashville, 1989 / From the album "Two Highways", Rounder #0265, May 1989
Cover painting, "The Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley", 1934.
Courtesy of The Spencer Museum of Art/The University of Kansas/The Elizabeth Watkins Fund