American Epic: The Collection (Mono) American Epic

• 1 The Coo Coo Bird (The Cuckoo) 02:58
• 2 On the Road Again 02:51
• 3 The Panama Limited 03:12
• 4 Indian War Whoop 03:11
• 5 Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do, Pt. 1 03:17
• 6 K. C. Railroad Blues 03:30
• 7 I Am Bound for the Promised Land 03:12
• 8 Cottonfield Blues, Pt. 2 03:21
• 9 I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground 03:20
• 10 Down On Penny's Farm 02:49
• 11 Foldin' Bed 02:58
• 12 Greenback Dollar 03:10
• 13 Tallahatchie River Blues 02:49
• 14 Walk Right In 02:57
• 15 Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow 03:00
• 16 Old Dog Blue 03:04
• 17 Bayou Teche 02:55
• 18 Cool Drink of Water Blues 03:35
• 19 Train On the Island 03:02
• 20 My Heart Keeps Singing 03:11
• 21 Ninety-Nine Year Blues 03:07
• 22 I Get My Whiskey From Rockingham 03:03
• 23 Death's Black Train Is Coming 03:14
• 24 Waiting for a Train 02:48
• 25 Darling, Where Have You Been So Long? 03:24
• 26 Rocky Road 02:46
• 27 Ma Blond Est Partie 02:51
• 28 Peg and Awl 02:57
• 29 Chocolate to the Bone 02:55
• 30 Down On Me 03:10
• 31 Prenez Courage 02:58
• 32 Pickin' Off Peanuts 03:30
• 33 Just Because 02:54
• 34 Dupree Blues 03:31
• 35 Ladies On the Steamboat 03:16
• 36 Mamma, 'Tain't Long Fo' Day  03:13
• 37 Cecilia 03:12
• 38 La Coquetera 03:03
• 39 Coconito 03:02
• 40 Lovesick Blues 02:52
• 41 Long Tall Mama 02:52
• 42 John Henry Blues 02:49
• 43 Mr. Tom Hughes' Town 03:08
• 44 Louis Collins 03:02
• 45 I Am The Light of the World 03:04
• 46 Fifty Miles of Elbow Room 02:43
• 47 Chant of the Eagle Dance 02:29
• 48 Hilo Hula 03:21
• 49 If The River Was Whiskey 03:11
• 50 Stackalee 03:07
• 51 The Wreck of the '97 02:50
• 52 Faded Coat of Blue 03:12
• 53 Country Blues 03:03
• 54 Sail Away Ladies 03:01
• 55 Sail Away Lady 03:01
• 56 Sally Gooden                                  03:11
• 57 Arkansas Traveller 03:07
• 58 Hard Time Blues 03:21
• 59 Down the Dirt Road Blues 02:57
• 60 Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home 03:12
• 61 Hastings Street 03:15
• 62 See That My Grave's Kept Clean 02:55
• 63 Gonna Have 'Lasses In the Morning 02:44
• 64 New Orleans Stop Time 02:59
• 65 Prove It On Me Blues 02:43
• 66 Gonne Die with My Hammer in My Hand 03:26
• 67 Last Kind Words Blues 03:04
• 68 Banjoreno 03:15
• 69 It's a Good Thing 03:01
• 70 Trust In God and Do the Right 02:50
• 71 Someday Baby Blues 03:03
• 72 Lonesome Road Blues 03:07
• 73 Future Blues 02:58
• 74 Bull Doze Blues 03:29
• 75 Brown Skin Gal (Down the Lane) 02:47
• 76 Henry Lee aka Young Hunting 03:26
• 77 Old Country Rock 03:02
• 78 La Danseuse 02:56
• 79 My Black Mama, Pt. 1 & 2 06:24
• 80 Cypress Grove Blues 03:16
• 81 Cross Road Blues 02:33
• 82 Mal Hombre 03:32
• 83 Sunshine Special 03:11
• 84 Old Jim Canan's 02:55
• 85 Les Blues De Voyage 02:57
• 86 The Lost Child 03:07
• 87 I'm Gonna Cross the River Jordan Some of These Days 03:07
• 88 Tomi Tomi 02:43
• 89 Sittin' On Top of the World 03:16
• 90 James Alley Blues 03:09
• 91 The Indian Tom Tom 02:37
• 92 Blues In a Bottle 03:25
• 93 Je Me Suis En Alle 02:53
• 94 Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground 03:27
• 95 E Mama Ea 03:12
• 96 Ghost Dance 03:03
• 97 Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind On Jesus) 02:52
• 98 Allons A Lafayette 02:58
• 99 Corrido De Joaquin Murrieta, Pt. 1 & 2 05:55
• 100 Denomination Blues (Part 1 & 2) 05:40
• Total Runtime 05:16:01

Info for American Epic: The Collection (Mono)

American Epic, a film series produced by Allison McGourty, Duke Erikson and Director Bernard MacMahon, explores the pivotal recording journeys at the height of the Roaring Twenties, when music scouts armed with cutting-edge recording technology captured the breadth of American music and discovered the artists that would shape our world.

The recordings they made of all the ethnic groups of America democratized the nation and gave a voice to everyone. Country singers in the Appalachians, Blues guitarists in the Mississippi Delta, Gospel preachers across the south, Cajun fiddlers in Louisiana, Tejano groups from the Texas Mexico border, Native American drummers in Arizona, and Hawaiian musicians were all recorded. It was the first time America heard itself.

American Epic: The Collection gathers 100 of these original recordings from the 1920s and 1930s in one five-disc set, restored to unprecedented levels of sonic fidelity. For this box set, compiled by Director Bernard MacMahon, engineer Nicholas Bergh refined a transfer process using a mix of both modern and vintage equipment in order to extract the remarkable resolution from the records that is often missed. This reverse engineering approach to the transfer process enabled the restoration team of Grammy Award-winning engineer Peter Henderson, Duke Erikson and Joel Tefteller to get the resulting audio closer to the original performance than ever before.

This is not "remastering," in the normal sense, but something closer to fine art restoration. The intent is not for people to marvel at the antiquity of these discs, but rather to experience them as vital, immediate performances that speak to us as directly as they did on the day they were recorded not simply great art for their time, but great art for all times. It includes a 100-page book filled with stunning unpublished photographs, quotes from the artists, their friends and families, lyrics for every song, essays and recording notes. Among the artists included are Mississippi John Hurt, The Carter Family, Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, Lydia Mendoza, Nelstone's Hawaiians, Big Chief Henry's String Band, Robert Johnson and many others.

Digitally remastered

Please note: these are Mono recordings from 1928

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