Uncle Dave Macon – Classic Cuts 1924-1938 – Vol. 2 – 4 CD

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Track Listing:

CD1: 1924-1936
1. Hill Billie Blues - 3:01   2. The Old Maid's Last Hope - 2:34   3. All I've Got's Gone - 2:45   4. The Fox Chase - 2:47   5. Papa's Billie Goat - 2:50   6. The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane - 2:55   7. (She Was Always) Chewing Gum - 2:58   8. Jonah and the Whale - 3:14   9. I'm Going Away to Leave You Love - 2:57   10. Love Somebody - 3:01   11. Soldier's Joy - 2:57   12. Bile Them Cabbage Down - 3:05   13. Rooster Crow Medley - 3:03   14. Just from Tennessee - 3:04   15. From Jerusalem to Jericho - 3:08   16. I Tickled Nancy - 2:35   17. Arkansas Travelers - 3:06   18. The Girl I Left Behind Me - 3:08   19. Muskrat Medley - 3:10   20. Down in Arkansas - 3:09   21. Down by the Old Mill Stream - 3:03   22. I Don't Reckon It'll Happen Again - 3:17   23. Save My Mother's Picture from the Sale - 2:56   24. He Won the Heart of My Sarah Jane - 3:12   25. Just Tell Them That You Saw Me - 3:14

CD2: 1926-1927
1. I Ain't Got Long to Stay - 2:57   2. Ain't It a Shame to Keep Your Honey Out in the Rain - 2:57   3. Shout Mourner, You Shall Be Free - 2:58   4. I Don't Care If I Never Wake Up - 3:00   5. In the Good Old Summer Time - 2:54   6. Something's Always Sure to Tickle Me - 2:51   7. In the Good Old Days of Long Ago - 2:59   8. My Girl's a High Born Lady - 3:09   9. In the Old Carolina State (Where the Sweet Magnolias Bloom) - 3:00   10. Never Make Love No More - 3:10   11. Them Two Gals of Mine - 2:52   12. Tossing the Baby So High - 2:58   13. Uncle Ned - 3:00   14. Braying Mule - 2:59   15. Take Me Home Poor Julia - 3:03   16. Lullaby Song - 3:25   17. Poor Old Dad - 3:22   18. Oh Bear Me Away on Your Snowy Wings - 3:09   19. The Mockingbird Song Medley - 3:06   20. In the Sweet Bye and Bye - 2:56   21. In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree - 3:03   22. Got No Silver Nor No Gold Blues - 3:02   23. Heartaching Blues - 3:03   24. Roe Rire Poor Girl - 3:05   25. Backwater Blues - 3:15

CD3: 14928-1938
1. Jesus Lover of My Soul - 3:01   2. Had the Razor - 3:00   3. Put Me in My Little Bed - 2:47   4. New in Town - 2:57   5. We Need a Change in Business All Around - 3:01   6. Mister Johnson - 3:08   7. Hush Little Baby Don't You Cry - 2:54   8. Oh Lovin' Babe - 3:14   9. Come on Buddie, Don't You Want to Go - 3:08   10. Go on Nora Lee - 3:06   11. Was You There When They Took My Lord Away - 2:59   12. Thank God for Everything - 3:03   13. When the Train Comes Along - 3:05   14. Tennessee Tornado - 3:15   15. Don't Get Weary Children - 3:04   16. Over the Mountain - 2:38   17. One More River to Cross - 2:48   18. Just One Way to the Pearly Gates - 3:08   19. Fame Apart from God's Approval - 2:30   20. From Jerusalem to Jericho - 3:24   21. Travelin' Down the Road - 3:29   22. He Won the Heart of Sarah Jane - 2:39   23. Working for My Lord - 2:34   24. She's Got the Money Too - 2:36   25. Wait Till the Clouds Roll By - 3:01

CD4: 1928-1936
1. Things I Don't Like to See - 3:12   2. They're After Me - 3:20   3. Beautiful Love - 3:34   4. Give Me Back My Five Dollars - 2:50   5. Railroadin' and Gamblin' - 2:40  6. Johnny Brey - 2:37   Sam McGhee: 7. Buck Dancer's Choice - 2:53   8. The Franklin Blues - 2:49   9. In a Cool Shady Nook - 2:32   10. If I Could Only Blot Out the Past - 3:02   11. Knoxville Blues - 3:00   The McGhee Brothers: 12. Old Master's Run Away - 2:57   13. Charming Bill - 3:00   14. A Flower from My Angel Mother's Grave - 2:43   15. C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken - 2:52   16. Salty Dog Blues - 3:00   17. Salt Lake City Blues - 3:02   18. Rufus Blossom - 3:07   19. Ragged Jim - 2:52   20. Someone Else May Be There While I'm Gone - 3:02   21. Hannah Won't You Open the Door - 2:45   22. My Family Has Been a Crooked Set - 2:58   23. The Tramp - 2:47   24. As Willie and Mary Strolled by the Seashore - 2:25   25. The Ship Without a Sail - 2:58

Reviews:

1. AllMusic - Steve Leggett
This is the second four-disc box set JSP Records has issued of Uncle Dave Macon, which means close to 200 tracks of old-time folk pieces, vaudeville standards, restructured minstrel songs, and more cornball humor than you can shake a banjo at (Macon had a habit of stopping a song in the middle, telling a short joke, then moving on back to the song). Not bad for a musician who didn't begin recording until he was 50. Before 1924 he owned and operated a mule-driven hauling service, but eventually similar businesses using trucks cornered the hauling market, and Macon became a professional musician -- and he never missed a chance to slam the virtue of trucks and praise mules in his routines. Macon didn't really understand the recording studio, and these tracks sound very much like a performer in front of a live audience as he introduces and explains songs, stomps his feet, and moves all about the microphone exactly as he would on stage -- which made him a nightmare for recording engineers. Past all the cornball bluster, though, was an energetic and charismatic performer who was a more than capable banjo player, and he single-handedly saved countless folk and string band songs from extinction by tracking them before they vanished into America's musical past. Most of Macon's more famous pieces are in JSP's first set, but there are some scattered gems here, including the intricate waltz called "He Won the Heart of My Sarah Jane," the bluesy "Oh Lovin' Babe," some kinetic banjo on "Come on Buddie, Don't You Want to Go," and a pair of lovely fiddle and banjo instrumentals (with Sid Harkreader on fiddle), "Bile Them Cabbage Down" and "Arkansas Travelers." Most of the fourth disc is made up of sides by brothers Sam & Kirk McGee (with Macon occasionally sitting in on banjo), and these are a special delight, especially Sam’s breat.htaking acoustic guitar lines. Four discs are a lot of Macon, and most casual listeners would be better served by picking up a singl -disc collection, but archivists and collectors will treasure this set of his lesser-known sides.