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From the pioneering string bands and old-time banjo maestros to country music's first superstar Jimmie Rodgers, this Rough Guide features many of the trailblazing artists who paved the way for the country music explosion to come.01 Uncle Dave Macon & Sam McGee Way Down The Old Plank Road 02 5602 Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers Leaving Home 03 0203 Jimmie Rodgers Somewhere Down Below The Dixon Line 02 5504 J.P. Nester Train On The Island 02 5905 Darby & Tarlton Sweet Sarah Blues 02 5806 Dock Boggs Old Rub Alcohol Blues 03 0507 East Texas Serenaders Acorn Stomp 02 5008 Clarence Ashley The Coo Coo Bird 02 5409 The Carter Family Wildwood Flower 03 0810 Tenneva Ramblers The Longest Train I Ever saw 03 0511 Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers Ain't Nobody's Business 02 5712 B.F. Shelton Darling Cora 03 4913 Ernest V. Stoneman & The Sweet Brothers John Hardy 03 07 14 Cliff Carlisle Chicken Roost Blues 02 3015 Eck Robertson & Family Texas Wagoner 03 00 16 Ray Brothers Got The Jake Leg Too 02 5517 Fruit Jar Guzzlers Stack-O-Lee 03 16 18 Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles Sleepy Desert 03 04 19 Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' 02 55 20 Burnett & Rutherford Curly Headed Woman 03 06 21 Fiddlin' Doc Roberts Trio Cumberland Blues 02 50 22 Lowe Stokes Billy In The Lowground 03 02 23 Buell Kazee The Orphan Girl 02 59 24 Leake County Revelers Leake County Blues 03 0325 Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers Gonna Swing On The Golden Gate 02 55 Album Tracks 1. Way Down the Old Plank Road - By Uncle Dave Macon & Sam McGee 2. Leaving Home - By Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers 3. Somewhere Down Below the Dixon Line - By Jimmie Rodgers 4. Train on the Island - By J.P. Nester 5. Sweet Sarah Blues - By Darby & Tarlton 6. Old Rub Alcohol Blues - By Dock Boggs 7. Acorn Stomp - By East
