Folk Songs of the Hills

by Merle Travis

Overview

This German import -- which goes for about double the cost of the U.S. CD Folk Songs of the Hills -- contains not only Folk Songs of the Hills and Back Home (but not the previously unreleased "This World Is Not My Home"), but also an entire additional Merle Travis album, the 1963 Songs of the Coal Mines, which deals with the lot and lives of coal miners. The songs include "Black Gold," "Harlan County Boys," "The Browder Explosion," and "Bloody Brethitt County," a song as savage as its title implies. The extra cost is worth it, in the absence of a separate U.S. CD release of Songs of the Coal Mines. Travis completists will want it, and any folk or blues enthusiast (check out "Pay Day Comes Too Slow") should want it. ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	06/28/1994
Label:	Bear Family Records
UPC:	4000127156365

Tracks

1. Nine Pound Hammer
2. That's All
3. John Bolin
4. Muskrat
5. Dark as a Dungeon
6. John Henry
7. Sixteen Tons
8. Possum Up a Simmon Tree
9. I Am a Pilgrim
10. Over by Number Nine
11. Barbara Allen
12. Lost John
13. Black Gold
14. The Harlan County Boys
15. Pay Day Comes Too Slow
16. The Browder Explosion
17. Bloody Brethitt County
18. Here's to the Operator, Boys
19. The Miner's Wife
20. The Courtship of Second Cousin Claude
21. Miner's Strawberries
22. Paw Walked Behind Us with a Carbide Lamp
23. Preacher Lane
24. Dear Old Halifax

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Merle Travis   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Merle Travis   Composer
Tex Ann   Composer
Harold Hensley   Composer
Traditional   Composer