category: instrumental country / jazz / easy listening

[excerpt from the CD liner notes]:
"Even before reliable amplification made it possible for the guitar to compete in volume with other musical instruments in a band, it had become a key element in the Country music sound. The very fact that Jimmie Rodgers, dubbed the 'Father Of Country Music', self-accompanied himself on guitar ensured that it was this instrument above all others which would dominate the music, even into the 21st Century." -- Paul Pelletier, Jasmine Records 2001

CD Track Listing

  1. JOE MAPHIS - Flying Fingers (Collins) (3:05)
  2. JIMMIE SAUL & His Prairie Drifters - Firecracker Stomp (Saul / Dalton) (2:45)
  3. LES PAUL & His Trio - Steel Guitar Rag (McAulliffe / Travis / Stone) (2:52)
  4. JIMMY BRYANT - Red Headed Polka (Bryant / O'Dell / Blair) (2:29)
  5. SPEEDY WEST & JIMMY BRYANT - Hub Cap Roll (West) (2:13)
  6. TEXAS JIM LEWIS & His Lone Star Cowboys - The wild Guitar (Lewis) (2:56)
  7. CECIL CAMPBELL & His Tennessee Ramblers - Tar Heel Rag (Campbell) (2:25)
  8. HANK GARLAND & His Sugar Footers - Guitar Shuffle (H.Garland: guitar & vocals) (DuPuy / Runner / Starr) (3:09)
  9. HANK SNOW - Wabash Blues (Ringle / Meinken) (1:58)
10. CHET ATKINS w/Homer & Jethro - Main Street Breakdown (Atkins) (2:14)
11. JIMMY BRYANT - Bryant's Boogie (Bryant) (2:32)
12. ARTHUR "Guitar Boogie" SMITH - South (Moten / Hayes) (2:24)
13. MERLE TRAVIS - Guitar Rag (Travis / Allen) (2:20)
14. MERLE TRAVIS - Merle's Boogie Woogie (Merle: vocals) (Travis) (3:00)
15. SHEB WOOLEY & His Caumet Indians - Boogie Woogie Waltz (Wooley) (2:19)
16. BIG JIM DeNOONE - 'E' Ramble (DeNoone) (2:15)
17. MERLE TRAVIS & Porky Freeman Trio - Boogie Woogie Boy (Merle: guitar & vocals) (Freeman) (2:56)
18. CHET ATKINS w/Homer & Jethro - BARBER SHOP RAG (Atkins) (2:46)
19. GRADY MARTIN - Slewfoot Rag (Bradley / Martin) (2:20)
20. CLIFFIE STONE BAND feat. PORKY FREEMAN - Spanish Bells (Freeman / Dolan / Stone) (2:38)
21. ARTHUR "Guitar Boogie" SMITH - Blue Boogie (Smith) (2:31)
22. HANK GARLAND & His Sugar Footers - Sugarfoot Rag (Garland / Vaughn) (2:40)

  Total timing: 52:47

Label/No: Jasmine Records 3539 (UK import)

Release date: 2001 reissue