Accompanying book title: Never a pal like mother : vintage songs & photographs of the one who's always true / [produced by Steven Lance Ledbetter ; foreword by Rosanne Cash ; essay by Sarah Bryan]
2 audio discs (122 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 cm)
ISBNs
9780981734231, 0981734235
OCLC
ocn733104903
Blues and country songs; performed by various artists.
"Original photographs: Sarah Bryan, Betty Curl, Dust-to-Digital archives, Magda Freeman, Sarah Ledbetter, Jim Linderman, Rob Millis and David Murray"--Accompanying book, 3rd p. from end.
Compact discs.
Essay by Sarah Bryan in book of mother photographs ([96 p.]).
Recorded 1927-1956.
Sung in English.
Disc 1: God bless her, she's my mother (Louvin Brothers) -- The pal that's always true (Doc Hopkins) -- Little Moses (Mr. and Mrs. Harmon E. Helmick) -- Mama blues (William McCoy) -- Mama's little sunny boy (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Mother's love (Mighty Destroyer) -- Mama don't allow it (Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon) -- Mama says it's naughty (Maddox Brothers & Rose) -- You mother heart breakers (Rev. J.M. Gates) -- Mother came to get her boy from jail (Wade Mainer) -- Mother's last word to her son (Washington Phillips) -- The Dixie cowboy (Taylor's Kentucky Boys) -- That's no way to get along (Robert Wilkins) -- Only mother cares for me (Dixieland Jug Blowers) -- Whisper softly, mother's dying (Kid Smith and Family) -- Hold fast to the right (Carter Family) -- Mother called her child to her dying bed (Lil McClintock) -- A mother's last word to her daughter (Washington Phillips) -- Mother is with the angels (Wright Brothers Quartet) -- Sleep on, Mother (Diamond Four)
Disc 2: Mother's gone (J.P. Ryan) -- Stand in the test in judgement (Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet) -- Mama, where you at? (Leo Soileau) -- Kujawiak babki (Grandmother's dance) (Jan Wysowski) -- Tie me to your apron strings again (Bob Wills) -- My mother's hands (Shortbuckle Roark & Family) -- The picture on the wall (Georgia Yellow Hammers) -- Where is my momma? (Carolina Twins) -- I've got the blues for Mammy (Milton Brown & his musical Brownies) -- Motherless child blues (Elvie Thomas) -- If I could hear my mother pray again (Rev. Anderson Johnson) -- Tell Mother I'll meet her (The Virginia Possum Tamers) -- Shake mother's hand for me (Golden Eagle Gospel Singers) -- Mother went her holiness way (Blue Sky Boys) -- Mother bowed (The Pilgrim Travelers) -- Will my mother know me there? (L.V. Jones & his VA Singing Class) -- The bright crystal sea (Cecil Surratt & his W. VA Ramblers) -- Over the hills and far away (McNulty Family) -- Masanga (Leon Bukasa) -- Sleep on Mother, sleep on (Lonnie McIntorsh)