Part one of this is highly entertaining anthologies that present an overview of early American rural music and home grown entertainment-square dances, fiddling, contests, school house exhibitions and a lot more too! Many of the greatest American rural musician of the century are featured, like Eck Robertson, Lowe Storkes, Andrew and Jim Baxter, Uncle Dave Macon, the Crockett Mountaineers and more!
1) Little Rabbit ; Rabbit Where's Your Mammy? - Crockett's Kentucky Mountaineers
2) Mississippi Square Dance (Part 2) - Freeny's Barn Dance Band
3) Forty Drops - Andrew ; Jim Baxter
4) Serenade in the Mountains (Part 2) - Stoneman's Blue Ridge Cornshuckers
5) Kidder Cole - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
6) Old Country Stomp - Henry Thomas
7) Old Virginia Reel (Part 1) - Fiddlin' Powers ; Family
8) Old Virginia Reel (Part 2) - Fiddlin' Powers ; Family
9) Way Down in Arkansas - Hambone Willie Newbern
10) Bull at the Wagon - Lewis Brothers
11) Fire in the Mountain - Red Headed Fiddlers
12) Bill Cheatem - James Cole's String Band
13) Rabbit Chase - Charlie Parker
14) Moselle - Judge Sturdy's Orchestra
15) Old Hen Cackle - Evans ; McClain
16) Flying Engine - Reeves White County Ramblers
17) I'll Rise When the Rooster Crows - Binkley Brothers Dixie Clodhoppers
18) Soldier's Joy - Taylor's Kentucky Boys
19) Sand Mountain Drag - Seven Foot Dilly ; His Dill Pickles
20) Kansas City Call - Winston Holmes/Charlie Turner
21) On Our Turpentine Farm - Pigmeat Pete/Catjuice Charlie
22) Husking Bee - Coon's Joy Boys
23) The Cornshuckers Frolic - Calloway's West Virginia Mountaineers