20 Original King Recordings

by J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers

Overview

Born in a one-room log cabin in North Carolina in 1898, J.E. Mainer was playing the banjo by the time he was nine-years old. By the time he formed the first version of his bluegrass band the Mountaineers, however, he had switched his main instrument to fiddle, and it is as a fiddler, songwriter, and bandleader that Mainer is treasured today by the bluegrass nation. Mainer & His Mountaineers recorded 24 songs for King Records in 1946, and then returned in 1961 to track an additional album and a couple of singles for the label. This budget 20-song set collects the best of those King sessions. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	03/15/2011
Label:	Gusto Records
UPC:	0792014220528
Rank:	162074

Tracks

1. What'll I Do with the Baby-O
2. Don't Tease Me This Way
3. Run Mountain
4. I'll Remember You Love in My Prayers
5. Mainer's Breakdown
6. John Henry
7. Forks of the Road
8. Big Ball's in Town
9. Pale Moonlight
10. Mother's Only Sleeping
11. Nobody's Business
12. Lonely Train
13. Forty Years Ago
14. Hard Times in a Cotton Mill
15. I've Take My Fun Where I've Found It
16. Shoot the Turkey Buzzard
17. Little Adobe Shack
18. I'll Be True to the One I Love
19. Get Away Old Man Get Away
20. Johnson County Blues

Album Credits

Performance Credits

J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Moe Lytle   Package Production
Chuck Young   Art Direction,Liner Notes