Never a Pal Like Mother: Songs & Photographs of the One Who’s Always True

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This release includes 40 vintage songs from 1927-1956 (2 CDs) and a 96 page hardcover photo book with an essay by Sarah Bryan and foreword...

This release includes 40 vintage songs from 1927-1956 (2 CDs) and a 96 page hardcover photo book with an essay by Sarah Bryan and foreword by Rosanne Cash, providing an authentic glimpse into America's past and the unbreakable bond between mothers and their children.

Rosanne Cash writes, "These songs capture the very essence of American roots music, and they could never be recreated in today's modern world."

1. Louvin Brothers – "God Bless Her, She’s My Mother”
2. Doc Hopkins – "The Pal That’s Always True”
3. Mr. & Mrs. Harmon E. Helmick – "Little Moses”
4. William McCoy – "Mama Blues”
5. Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band – "Mama’s Little Sunny Boy”
6. Mighty Destroyer – "Mother's Love”
7. Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon – "Mama Don’t Allow It”
8. Maddox Brothers & Rose – "Mama Says It’s Naughty”
9. Rev. J. M. Gates – "You Mother Heart Breakers”
10. Wade Mainer – "Mother Came to Get Her Boy from Jail”
11. Washington Phillips – "Mother’s Last Word to Her Son”
12. Taylor's Kentucky Boys – "The Dixie Cowboy”
13. Robert Wilkins – "That’s No Way to Get Along”
14. Dixieland Jug Blowers – "Only Mother Cares for Me”
15. Kid Smith and Family – "Whisper Softly, Mother’s Dying”
16. Carter Family – "Hold Fast to the Right”
17. Lil McClintock – "Mother Called Her Child to Her Dying Bed”
18. Washington Phillips – "A Mother’s Last Word to Her Daughter”
19. Wright Brothers Quartet – "Mother is with the Angels”
20. Diamond Four – "Sleep On, Mother”
21. J. P. Ryan – "Mother's Gone”
22. Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet – "Stand in the Test in Judgment”
23. Leo Soileau – "Mama, Where You At?”
24. Jan Wysowski – "Kujawiak Babki (Grandmother's Dance)”
25. Bob Wills – "Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again”
26. Shortbuckle Roark & Family – "My Mother's Hands”
27. Georgia Yellow Hammers – "The Picture on the Wall”
28. Carolina Twins – "Where Is My Momma?”
29. Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies – "I've Got the Blues for Mammy”
30. Elvie Thomas – "Motherless Child Blues”
31. Rev. Anderson Johnson – "If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again”
32. The Virginia Possum Tamers – "Tell Mother I'll Meet Her”
33. Golden Eagle Gospel Singers – "Shake Mother's Hand for Me”
34. Blue Sky Boys – "Mother Went Her Holiness Way”
35. The Pilgrim Travelers – "Mother Bowed”
36. L. V. Jones & His Virgnia Singing Class – "Will My Mother Know Me There?”
37. Cecil Surratt & His West Virginia Ramblers – "The Bright Crystal Sea”
38. McNulty Family – "Over the Hills and Far Away”
39. Leon Bukasa – "Masanga”
40. Lonnie McIntorsh – "Sleep On Mother, Sleep On”

Catalog Number DTD-19

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Recording Era(s)

["1927-1956"]

Number of Tracks

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Label(s) / Partner(s) Dust-to-Digital

Producer(s) Steven Lance Ledbetter

Audio Engineer(s) Michael Graves

Designer(s) Debbie Berne

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Additional Information

  • USA

  • English

  • Blues
  • Country