Gutbucket Brothers 17 — Branches & Roots (2 CDs)

The Branches
1. Andrew Bird - Fatal Flower Garden
2. The Dickel Brothers - Hungry Hash House
3. Richard Thompson with Eliza Carthy - The Coo Coo Bird
4. Kathy Kallick - Willie Poor Boy
5. Nickel Creek - House Carpenter
6. Edith Frost - When The Bees Are In The Hive
7. The Kentucky Colonels - Blackberry Blossom
8. Carl Sandburg - Careless Love
9. Wilco - Sugar Baby
10. John Prine - Nine Pound Hammer
11. The Mammals - Way Down The Old Plank Road. Wav
12. Bob Dylan - James Alley Blues
13. John Hartford - John Henry
14. The New Lost City Ramblers - I've Always Been A Rambler
15. Bill Morrissey - Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight
16. Petra Haden and Bill Frisell - John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man
17. Abigail Washburn - Who's Gonna Shoe
18. Nancy & Norman Blake - Rise When The Rooster Crows
19. Alison Krauss & Union Station - Cluck Old Hen
20. Carolina Chocolate Drops - Jack Of Diamonds
21. The Chieftains With Buddy & Julie Miller - Country Blues
22. Bruce Springsteen - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
23. Uncle Tupelo - Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down
24. David Johansen & The Harry Smiths - Last Kind Deal

The Roots
1. Nelston's Hawaiians - Fatal Flower Garden
2. Uncle Dave Macon - Hungry Hash House
3. Clarence "Tom" Ashley - The Coo Coo Bird
4. Roy Harvey & Posey Rorer - Willie Poor Boy
5. Mrs. Texas Gladden - House Carpenter
6. Roy Harvey & Posey Rorer - When The Bees Are In The Hive
7. Burnett & Rutherford - Blackberry Blossom
8. Eva Parker - Careless Love
9. Dock Boggs - Sugar Baby
10. Grayson & Whitter - Nine Pound Hammer
11. Uncle Dave Macon - Way Down The Old Plank Road.
12. Richard Rabbit Brown - James Alley Blues
13. Gabriel Brown - John Henry
14. Grayson & Whitter - I've Always Been A Rambler
15. Mississippi John Hurt - Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight
16. The Carter Family - John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man
17. Woody Guthrie - Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet
18. Binkley Brothers' Clodhoppers - Rise When The Rooster Crows
19. Wade Ward - Cluck Old Hen
20. Ben Jarrell & Frank Jenkins - Jack Of Diamonds
21. Dock Boggs - Country Blues
22. Blind Alfred Reed - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
23. Blind Joe Taggart - Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down
24. Geeshie Wiley - Last Kind Deal


This is actually a mix Tex and I came up with since Easter, based out of a blog that Franklin Onn turned us on to. We have been focusing so heavily on old-timey musicians that we wanted to share some of the more modern artists who have really strapped themselves to the tree with roots.

Gutbucket Brothers 16 — Another Man Done Gone (2 CDs)

Disk 1
1. Odetta - Another Man Done Gone
2. Los Cuatesones - Cadena (The Chain Gang)
3. Robert Pete Williams - Prisoner's Talking Blues
4. Big Joe Williams - Prison Bound
5. Leadbelly - Go Down Old Hannah
6. Son House - Mississippi County Farm Blues
7. Chorus from Mississippi and Louisanna State Penitentiaries (recorded by Alan Lomax) - It Makes A Long Time Man Feel Bad
8. Bill Cox - Long Chain Charlie Blues
9. Robert Pete Williams - Some Got Six Months
10. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Prison Cell Blues
11. Jimmie Rodgers - Nobody Knows But Me
12. Ernest V. Stoneman - The Prisoner's Lament
13. Willie Williams - O Lord Don't 'Low Me Beat 'Em
14. Bessie Smith - Sing Sing Blues
15. Texasas Alexander - Levee Camp Moan
16. Mattie May Thomas - No Mo' Freedom
17. Henry Jimpson Wallace & Axe Gang - No More, My Lord
18. The Carter Family - Prisoner's Dream
19. Lonesome Whistle Blues - Bob Dylan
20. Scrapper Blackwell - Penal Farm Blues
21. Rory Block - County Farm Blues
22. Del McCoury - Blackjack County Chains
23. Riley Puckett - Chain Gang Blues
24. Johnny Cash - I'm Free From the Chain Gang Now
25. Angola Choir - Rise and Fly

Disk 2
1. Jelly Roll Morton - The Murder Ballad, Part 1
2. Big Bill Broonzy - Police Station Blues
3. Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O' Lee
4. Leadbelly - Midnight Special
5. Hobart Smith - Hawkins County Jail
6. Dock Boggs - Wise County Jail
7. Jelly Roll Morton - The Murder Ballad, Pt. 4 ( 'They Brought That Gal to the Prison Gate. . . ')
8. The Delmore Brothers - Lonesome Jailhouse Blues
9. Fiddlin' Doc Roberts - 99 Years
10. J. E. Mainer Band - Columbus Stockade
11. Steve Earle - Prison Cell Blues
12. Ramblin' Jack Elliot with John Prine - Walls of Red Wing
13. Darby & Tarlton - Birmingham Jail
14. David Johansen & the Harry Smiths - Jailbird Love Song
15. Dr. Ralph Stanley with Junior Brown - Stone Walls and Steel Bars
16. Charlie Moore - The Convict And The Rose
17. Merle Haggard - Mama Tried
18. Nina Simone - Mr. Bojangles
19. William Elliott Whitmore - From the Cell Door to the Gallows
20. Mary Johnson - Death Cell Blues
21. Steve Earle - Over Yonder (Jonathan's Song)
22. Rube Lacy - Mississippi Jail House Groan
23. Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat
24. Wally Fowler and his Georgia Clodhoppers - Just Thirteen Steps Away
25. Jelly Roll Morton - The Murder Ballad, Pt. 7 ('Goodbye to the World, I Know I'm Gone. . . ')
This time the Gutbucket Brothers journey through the mysterious south of chain gangs, work camps & prison farms, only to end up on death row.

Gutbucket Brothers 15 — Every Man's Conscience Is Vile and Depraved (2 CDs)

Disk 1
1. The Skillet Lickers - Devilish Mary
2. Ernest V. Stoneman - It's Sinful to Flirt
3. Clarence Williams & Clarence Todd - Temptation Blues
4. Bessie Smith - Sinful Blues
5. Arthur Collins - Temptation Rag
6. Bayless Rose - Original Blues
7. The Carter Family - You're Gonna Be Sorry You Let Me Down
8. The Skillet Lickers - Broken Down Gambler
9. Georgia Crackers - Diamond Joe
10. Jimmie Rodgers - Hobo Bill's Last Ride
11. Tommy Johnson - Alcohol & Jake Blues
12. The Hokum Boys - Gin Mill Blues
13. Black Bottom McPhail - Whiskey Man Blues
14. Dock Boggs - Old Rub Alcohol Blues
15. Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett - Three Nights Drunk
16. Jimmie Davis - Keyhole in the Door
17. Hank Williams - Wealth Won't Save Your Soul
18. Lefty Frizzell - My Rough and Rowdy Ways
19. George Jones - Out Of Control
20. The Callahan Brothers - Corn Licker Rag
21. Memphis Jug Band - Cocaine Habit Blues
22. Victoria Spivey and Lonnie Johnson - Dope Head Blues
23. Manuel C. Valdez& Juan Gonzalez - Por Morfina y Cocaína, Pt. 1
24. Dick Justice - Cocaine

Disk 2
1. Sid Hemphill & Lucius Smith - Old Devil's Dream
2. Ed Lewis & Prisoners - Tom Devil
3. Fiddlin' Doc Roberts - Did You Ever See The Devil, Uncle Joe
4. Frank Hutchinson - Hell Bound Train
5. Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers - Falling By The Wayside
6. Cliff Carlisle - Memories That Haunt Me
7. Blind Willie Johnson - The Soul of a Man
8. Dock Boggs - Country Blues
9. Fiddlin' John Carson - Goin' Where the Climate Suits My Clothes
10. Uncle Dave Macon - I Don't Care If I Never Wake Up
11. Grayson & Whitter - I Saw A Man At The Close Of Day
12. Frank Hutchison - The Deal
13. David Krussel - Ole Lady & the Devil
14. Horton Barker - The Farmer's Curst Wife
15. Son House - Death Letter Blues
16. Amos Milburn - My Tortured Mind
17. Tucomsa McDowell - So-Called Friend Blues
18. Sonny Boy Williamson I - I Been Dealing With the Devil
19. Peetie Wheatstraw - Devil's Son-In-Law
20. Noah Lewis Jug Band - New Minglewood Blues
21. Blind Boy Grunt - Talkin' Devil
22. Mississippi Sheiks - I Am The Devil
23. Dave Edwards - Done Sold My soul to the Devil
24. Eugene Fox with Ike Turner - Sinner's Dream

As Brother Tex and I were serving our Lenten penance, we pretty much filled our days with mixing. I wanted to do this one, with Temptation as a working title, as the flipside to our Gutbucket Easter Praise mix, though in some cases, the choices were made using the essence of Tex.This one deals with man’s weaknesses on the one hand and then Lucifer himself (or herself) on the other.

The Best of the Rest of The Original Carter Family/ Law of Fang and Claw

Disc 1
1. The Original Carter Family - Buddies in the Saddle
2. The Original Carter Family - Waves on the Sea
3. The Original Carter Family - He Never Came Back
4. The Original Carter Family - My Dixie Darling
5. The Original Carter Family - You've Been a Friend to Me
6. The Original Carter Family - East Virginia Blues
7. The Original Carter Family - Are You Lonesome Tonight?
8. The Original Carter Family - Sailor Boy
9. The Original Carter Family - One Little Word
10. The Original Carter Family - My Native Home
11. The Original Carter Family - I'll Be Home Someday
12. The Original Carter Family - Meeting In The Air
13. The Original Carter Family - Honey in the Rock
14. The Original Carter Family - There'll Be No Distinction There
15. The Original Carter Family - The Spirit of Love Watches Over Me
16. The Original Carter Family - A Distant Land To Roam
17. The Original Carter Family - Lover's Lane
18. The Original Carter Family - March Winds Gonna Blow My Blues All Away
19. The Original Carter Family - It'll Aggravate Your Soul
20. The Original Carter Family - No Depression in Heaven

Disc 2
1. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - Young But Daily Growin'
2. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - Bring It On Home
3. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - All You Have To Do Is Dream(Take 2)
4. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - I Forgot To Remember To Forget
5. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - Rocksalt And Nails
6. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - Cool Water
7. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - All American Boy
8. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - Joshua Gone Barbados
9. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - Bonnie Ship The Diamond
10. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - The Hills Of Mexico
11. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - The Big Flood
12. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - Get Your Rocks Off
13. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - Gonna Get You Now
14. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - You Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dog
15. The Hawks - If I Lose,Let Me Lose
16. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - Ol' Roison The Beau
17. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - People Get Ready
18. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - Sign On The Cross
19. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - Wildwood Flower
20. Bob Dylan & The Hawks - I'm Not There
Just a couple other mixes that Tex and I came up with during our Lenten sabbatical. Not originally conceived as a double-album or even as a gutbucket offering, it just seemed natural to place these side-by-side and both carry the rustic charm of true gutbucket. But I think I'll shut up now and just let the music speak for itself.

Gutbucket Brothers 14 — Man’s Will Is Not Weak (2 CDs)

Disc 1
1. Texas Hobart - Seeker of Superstitions
2. Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson - Amazing Grace
3. June Carter Cash - Wings Of Angels
4. Norman And Nancy Blake - Angel Gabriel
5. Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper - Are You Walking And A-Talking For The Lord
6. Jim Watson, Mike Craver &Tommy Thompson - Meeting In The Air
7. Harry & Jeanie West - Sweet Bye and Bye
8. Bill Harrell And The Virginians - Aren't You Glad to Be Saved?
9. Del McCoury & Marty Stuart - Let Us Travel, Travel On
10. J. Burton Fuller & Jacky Jack White - Satisfied
11. Mississippi John Hurt - Farther Along
12. Joe Thompson - I Shall Not Be Moved
13. Ernest V. Stoneman - I Remember Calvary
14. Elizabeth Cotten - Hallelujah, It Is Done
15. Ernest Stoneman - I Remember Cavalry
16. Cliff Carlisle - Shine Your Light for Others
17. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Calvary
18. Dock Boggs - Calvary
19. Sister Sallie Sanders - I've Gotta Ride To The Tree Of Life
20. The Dixie Hummingbirds - Jesus I Love You
21. E.C. Ball with Orna Ball & the Friendly Gospel Singers - I See God in Everything
22. Dr. Ralph Stanley - God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign
23. Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley - Daniel Prayed
24. Jerry Douglas - In The Sweet By and By

Disc 2
1. Uncle Dave Macon - Oh Bear Me Away on Your Snowy Wings
2. Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama - In the Garden
3. The Soul Stirrers - The Last Mile of the Way
4. Sunshine Boys - Noah
5. Flatt & Scruggs - You Can Feel It in Your Soul
6. The Flying Burrito Brothers - Farther Along
7. Washington Phillips - Honey In The Rock
8. Rev. Gary Davis - I Am the Light of the World
9. Golden Gate Quartet - The Negro Spiritual/Rock My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham
10. Blind Willie McTell & Curley Weaver - Lord Have Mercy If You Please
11. The Sauceman Brothers - Shine On Me
12. The Dixie Hummingbirds with the Blind Boys of Alabama - Search Me
13. Jesse Fuller - Where Could I Go But to the Lord
14. Blind Willie Johnson - Let Your Light Shine On Me
15. Johnny Cash - Oh, Come Angel Band
16. Elvis Presley - Working On The Building
17. Marley's Ghost - How Can I Keep From Singing?
18. The Turney Brothers - At the Cross
19. Dave Van Ronk & Friends - Soon My Work Will All Be Done
20. Dottie Peoples - I Believe in You
21. Dr. John with Mavis Staples - Lay My Burden Down
22. The Five Blind Boys of Alabama - Amazing Grace
23. Pete Drake - Southern Sunday
24. John Lilly - Spirit (Bend Close To Me)


This third installment of Gutbucket Gospel (after GB2 & GB10) finds Brother Tex, with his Roman Catholic heritage, and Brother Doowad, with his pseudo-Catholic wanderings, separately opting to give up visiting the various mix sites during Lent.

So much so that they basically became each other’s own Gutbucket support group, putting together 3 Gutbucket volumes (among other things) in the interim, this first one exploring the joys of theism.

Primarily in the old-timey genre, though with a few choice exceptions.

Here’s hoping this goes down as smooth as boiled eggs on white toast smothered in country ham gravy (a gutbucket Easter tradition).

Happy Easter, one and all, from all of us here in Gutbucket Country.