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

Various Artists

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

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

• The Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute, Various Artists, 1997, Egyptian/Columbia 485189 2