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Let Me Be Your Side Track: The Influence of Jimmy Rogers

Various Artists

Initial release : 2008

Bear Family

This wide ranging 6 CD box set includes the Garcia/Grisman track from the 1997 Jimmie Rodgers tribute CD, The Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute. John Kahn and Martin Fierro also play on that track. The collection also includes a Bob Dylan track.

Tracks

Disc 1;

  • Sweet Mama Hurry Home - Rex Griffin
  • Yodeling Ranger - Gene Autry
  • Hobo Bill's Last Ride - Cliff Carlisle
  • Wind Swept Desert (Desert Blues) - Buell Kazee
  • Any Old Time - George Hall
  • T.B. Blues No. 2 (T.B. Blues) - Glenn Davis
  • In My Dear Old Southern Home (Dear Old Sunny South by the Sea) - Webb Pierce
  • Daddy and Home - Hank Snow
  • Blue Yodel No. 6 - Lefty Frizzell
  • Never No More Hard Times Blues (No Hard Times) - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
  • Blue Yodel No. 5 - Gene Autry
  • Yodeling Cowboy - The Sons of the Pioneers
  • Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel #8) - Roy Acuff & His Smokey Mountain Boys
  • Once I Had a Sweetheart (Soldier's Sweetheart) - Darby & Tarlton
  • Frankie and Johnny (You'll Miss Me in the Days to Come) - The Nite Owls
  • Polka Dot Blues (Gambling Polka Dot Blues)
  • She Was Happy Till She Met You - Harry Hillard
  • Nobody Knows But Me - Roy Bledsoe
  • Mississippi Delta Blues - Rice Brothers Gang
  • Mother the Queen of My Heart - The Tune Wranglers
  • One Rose (That's Left in My Heart) - Gene Autry
  • California Blues (Blue Yodel No. 4) - Pie Plant Pete
  • High Powered Mama - Bill Monroe
  • Travelin' Blues - The Light Crust Doughboys
  • I'm Looking for a Brand New Mama (Looking for a New Mama) - Roy Rogers
Disc 2;
  • She's in the Jailhouse Now - The Monroe Brothers
  • My Carolina Sunshine Girl - Bill Cox
  • Pistol Packin' Papa - Clayton McMichen
  • Sweetest Girl in the World (My Blue Eyed Jane) - Ross' Rhythm Rascals
  • Waiting for the Railroad Train (Waiting for a Train) - Joe Steen
  • Blue Yodel No. 7 - Bill Boyd
  • Prairie Lullaby - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
  • Hadie Brown (My Little Lady) - Dwight Butcher
  • Old Man's Story (Why There's a Tear in My Eye) - Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell Orchestra
  • My Rough and Rowdy Ways - Gene Autry
  • Prohibition Blues (Prohibition Has Done Me Wrong) - Jack & Leslie
  • Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues - Harry Hillard
  • Memphis Yodel - Texas Ruby
  • Ben Dewberry's Final Run - Frankie "Frankie Wallace" Marvin
  • Mean Mama Blues (Jimmie's Mean Mama Blues) - Howard Keesee
  • No Hard Times - Buddy Jones
  • Roll Along Kentucky Moon - Jess Hillard & His West Virginia Hillbillies
  • In the Jailhouse Now, No. 2 - Beverly Long
  • Mississippi River Blues - Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra
  • Blue Yodel No. 9 - Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra
  • Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) - Tal Henry
  • Away out on the Mountain - King Oliver
  • Gambling Blues (Those Gambler's Blues) - Memphis Sheiks
  • My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans - Gene Kardos
  • Blue Yodel No. 10 (Ground Hog Rootin' in My Back Yard) - The Rhythm Wreckers
  • Soldier's Sweetheart - The Callahan Brothers
Disc 3;
  • Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) - John Sellers
  • Away out on the Mountain - Harry Belafonte
  • My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans - John Jackson
  • Everybody Does It in Hawaii - Harmonica Frank Floyd
  • In the Jailhouse Now - Brenda Boykin
  • In the Jailhouse Now - Roy Gonzalez
  • One Rose (That's Left in My Heart) - Rayne-Bo Ramblers
  • Never No Mo' Blues - Tex Morton
  • Let Me Be Your Business - Hawking Brothers
  • Muleskinner (Blue Yodel No. 8-Muleskinner Blues) - The Monroe Brothers
  • T.B. Blues - Rick & Thel Carey
  • Blue Yodel No. 6 - Buddy "The Yodelling Jackaroo" Williams
  • Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) - Slim Dusty
  • Anuiant et Blue [Lonely and Blue] - Reg Lindsay
  • Dor, Baby, Dor [Sleep Baby Sleep] - Peter Alexander, Bill Ramsey
  • Dreaming with Tears in My Eyes - Roland Heinrich
  • Let Me Be Your Sidetrack - Roland Heinrich
  • Ol Pal of My Heart - Roland Heinrich
  • She Was Happy Till She Met You - Hank Snow
  • Dear Old Sunny South by the Sea - Red River Dave McEnery
  • Any Old Time - Ernest Tubb
  • Jimmie the Kid - Lefty Frizzell
  • Missouri Cowboy (Blue Yodel No. 8-Muleskinner Blues) - Slim Rinehart
  • Land Meines Kindheitstraums [Land of My Boyhood Dreams] - Jack Guthrie
  • Ich Such Mir eine Neue Frau [I'm Looking for a New Mama] - Gary Williams
  • Jetzt Ist Er im Knast [in the Jailhouse Now - Jimmie Skinner
Disc 4;
  • In the Jailhouse Now - Johnny Cash
  • I've Ranged, I've Roamed, I've Travelled - Bill Monroe
  • I'm Free (From the Chain Gang Now) - Lefty Frizzell
  • Sleep, Baby, Sleep - Cliff Carlisle
  • For the Sake of Days Gone By - Wilf Carter
  • Blue Yodel No. 3 (Evening Sun Yodel) - Patsy Montana
  • Hobo's Meditation - Merle Travis
  • Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel - Gary Williams
  • Mystery of Number Five - Jim Reeves
  • Sailor's Plea - Tommy Duncan
  • My Good Gal's Gone Blues - Red Foley
  • Blue Yodel No. 2 (My Lovin' Gal Lucille) - Hank Snow
  • Cowhand's Last Ride - Jimmie Skinner
  • Treasures Untold
  • Blue Yodel # 1 (T for Texas)
  • Jimmie's Texas Blues
  • Waiting for a Train
  • Never No Mo' Blues
  • I'm Sorry We Met
  • Ninety Nine Year Blues
  • Why Should I Be Lonely?
  • Miss the Mississippi and You
  • Old Love Letters (Bring Memories of You) - Dwight Butcher
  • Rock All the Babies to Sleep - Jimmy Hinchee
  • Gambling Bar Room Blues - Gary Williams
  • Wonderful City - Ernest Tubb
  • Mississippi Moon - Cowboy Slim Rinehart
  • Blue Yodel #8 (Mule Skinner Blues) - Lonnie Donegan
  • Whippin' That Old T.B. - Jack Elliott
  • Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas) - Pete Seeger
Disc 5;
  • Down the Old Road to Home - Merle Haggard
  • Land of My Boyhood Dreams - Hank Snow
  • Lullaby Yodel - Grandpa Jones
  • Waiting for a Train - Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Blue Yodel #8 (Mule Skinner Blues) - The Fendermen
  • Everybody Does It in Hawwaii - Hank Snow
  • Long Tall Mama - Jessie Clifton
  • (When It's) Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia - Elton Britt
  • You and My Old Guitar - Bob King
  • Fifteen Years Ago - Molly O'Day
  • Home Call - Hank Snow
  • When the Cactus Is in Bloom - Jack Guthrie
  • My Mother Was a Lady - Marty Robbins
  • Moonlight and Skies - Jimmie Skinner
  • Drunkard's Child - Ernest Tubb
  • Southern Cannon Ball - Hank Snow
  • In the Hills of Tennessee - Gary Williams
  • I'm Lonely and Blue - Lefty Frizzell
  • Train Whistle Blues - Merle Haggard
  • Blue Yodel #8 (Mule Skinner Blues) - Dolly Parton
  • Whisper Your Mother's Name - Wilf Carter
  • Big Chief Buffalo Nickel (The Desert Blues) - Rick Nelson
  • My Time Ain't Long - Gary Williams
  • Pistol Packing Papa - Claude King
  • Waiting for a Train - Dick Curless
  • Somehwere Down Below the Mason Dixon Line - Jimmy Skinner
  • Blue Yodel #12 (Daybreak Blues) - Hank Snow
  • Why Did You Give Me Your Love? - Ernest Tubb
  • My Old Pal - Eddie Noack
  • Brakeman's Blues (Yodeling the Blues Away) - Grandpa Jones
  • Blue Yodel #8 (Mule Skinner Blues) - Connie Francis, Hank Williams, Jr.
Disc 6;
  • Blue Yodel #11 - Dean Mitchell
  • I'm Lonesome, Too - Dean Mitchell
  • I've Only Loved Three Women - Dean Mitchell
  • Take Me Back Again - Dean Mitchell
  • That's Why I'm Blue - Dean Mitchell
  • What Is It? - Dean Mitchell
  • Yodeling My Way Back Home - Dean Mitchell
  • Dreaming with Tears in My Eyes - Bono
  • Any Old Time - Alison Krauss & Union Station
  • Waiting for a Train - Dickey Betts
  • Somewhere Down Below the Mason Dixon Line - Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Miss the Mississippi and You - David Ball
  • My Blue Eyed Jane - Bob Dylan
  • Peach Pickin' Time Down in Georgia - Willie Nelson
  • In the Jailhouse Now - Steve Earle and the V-Roys
  • Blue Yodel #9 (Standin' on the Corner) - Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, John Kahn
  • Hobo Bill's Last Ride - Iris DeMent
  • Gambling Bar Room Blues - John Mellencamp
  • Mule Skinner Blues - Van Morrison
  • Why Should I Be Lonely - Aaron Neville
  • T for Texas - Dwight Yoakam
The musicians on the Garcia/Grisman version of Blue Yodel #9 are;
  • Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocal
  • David Grisman - mandolin-banjo, vocal
  • John Kahn - acoustic bass
  • Sally Van Meter - dobro
  • George Marsh - drums
  • Martin Fierro - tenor saxophone
  • Jim Rothermel - clarinet
  • Peter Welker - trumpet
  • Kevin Porter - trombone
Related releases

The last 14 tracks on disc 6, including the Garcia/Grisman version of Blue Yodel #9, were originally released on;

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