4-CD box (LP-size) with 28-page book, 121 tracks. Playing time approx. 310 mns

Back in the depth of the Depression, the Sons of the Pioneers began recording radio shows on transcription for Standard Radio in Los Angeles. Unheard for more than 60 years, these transcriptions show western music's preeminent harmony group in a fresh and different light. Roy Rogers, Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer and Hugh Farr began recording for Standard less than one year after they had organized their group, and the repertoire was comprised for the greater part of songs that they didn't record commercially. The looseness and spontaneity are infectious, the harmonies are faultless, and the instrumentation features the jazzy fiddle and guitar of Hugh and Karl Farr.

This second 4-CD volume of Standard transcriptions comprises 121 songs, including some that went on to become Sons of the Pioneers' classics, such as One More Ride and Cool Water. The core of the shows, though, was vintage pop and western songs, hymns, folk songs, and the Farrs' improvisations. These include Stephen Foster favorites like Nelly Bly, Ring Ring De Banjo, Hard Times, Swanee River, and Old Kentucky Home; traditional western ballads such as When The Work's All Done This Fall, Jesse James, Old Paint, Darling Clementine, and Billy The Kid; hymns, including Leaning On The Everlasting Arm, Climbing Jacob's Ladder, and Old Time Religion; and innovative arrangements of traditional folk songs like Gambler's Blues, Rosewood Casket, Jack O'Diamonds, Birmingham Jail, and Rye Whiskey.

The box includes a 32-page LP-size booklet by Laurence J. Zwisohn that continues the story of the Sons of the Pioneers during their formative era, and includes rare photos, as well as a discography.

Track Listing

• Me And My Burro
• Old Sky Ball Paint
• Outlaw Rag
• Way Down South
• De Camp Town Races
• Old Dog Trey
• Ragtime Annie
• Soldier's Joy
• Oompah Rag
• Pop Eye's Spiritual
• West Of The Rio Grande
• One More River To Cross
• Bring Roses To Your Mother
• Dolly Day
• Cow Across The Road
• Darling Clementine
• Black Sheep Blues
• Railroad Boomer
• Rocky Mountain Express
• The Yodeling Cowboy
• Pride Of The Ball
• Standin' In Need Of Prayer
• Cowboy Jack
• Roll Along Jordan
• Tom And Jerry
• Old Madeira Waltz
• Rye Whiskey Waltz
• Where The Morning Glories Grow
• Methodist Pie
• Seein' Nellie Home (Aunt Dinah's Quilting...)

• Miss Lucy Long
• Hard Times Come Again No More
• Yankee Doodle
• All God's Chillun Got Wings
• T For Texas
• Harvester
• Custer's Last Battle
• Goodbye My Lover Goodbye
• Covered Wagon Roll Me On (Westward Ho)
• Beulah Land (Dwelling In Beulah Land)
• Follow The Stream (I Follow The Stream)
• Darling Nellie Grey
• Chicken
• Going Home
• Blues In E
• Old Rover
• Beautiful Nell
• Main Street
• Drifting Sands (Sands Of The Desert)
• And I Still Do
• Climb Up Chillun'
• Falling Leaf
• I Wish I'd Stayed In The Wagon Yard
• Some Folks
• We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder
• Dixie
• Wind
• Old Paint
• Tenting Tonight (On The Old Camp Ground)

• Travelin' With The Sun
• Roll On (Cowboy's Dream)
• Old Time Religion
• Florine Waltz
• Swanee River
• Waggoner
• Big Rock Candy Mountain
• Little Old Sod Shanty
• Keep A-Inchin' Along
• Gambler's Blues
• Down The Lane To Happiness
• Coming Through The Rye
• Ninety And Nine
• Tom Bigbee River
• (Down In The) Old Cherry Orchard
• Jesse James
• When The Bees Are In The Hive
• Hifalutin'
• Rosewood Casket
• Bum Song (Hallelujah, I'm A Bum)
• Call Of The South (Come On Home)
• Song Of The Pioneers
• Utah Trail
• The Crawdad Song
• Old Black Mountain Trail
• (My) Old Kentucky Home
• Get Away Old Man, Get Away
• Eight Of January
• Jack Of Diamonds
• Bugler's Blues
• Fine Time At Our House

• Oh There's Power (In The Blood)
• Leaning On The Everlasting Arm
• I Need Thee
• Prairie Schooner (Over The Santa Fe Trail)
• Nelly Bly
• Oh Lemuel
• Ring Ring De Banjo
• Auld Lang Syne
• Billy Boy
• Memories Of The Range
• Birmingham Jail
• New River Train
• In The Saddle (Ridin', Ropin')
• Give My Love To Nell
• Listen To The Mockingbird
• Whispering Hope
• Mellow Mountain Moon
• Sagebrush Stomp
• Bury Me Beneath The Willow
• When The Bloom Is On The Sage
• Rock Me To Sleep In My Rocky Mountain Home
• I Want To Follow The Swallow Back Home...
• One More Ride
• Lane County Bachelor
• Cool Water
• When The Work's All Done This Fall
• Sleepy Rio Grande
• When It's Prayer Meetin' Time In The Hollow
• Nighttime In Nevada
• Cotton Eyed Joe

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Country

Run Time: 310 mins

Release Date: 01/02/07

UPC: 4000127161048