The Singing Brakeman [bear Family]

This box set includes a 60-page booklet with unpublished photos and extensive notes by Nolan Porterfield.

Track Listing

• Disc 1
• • 1 the soldier's sweetheart
  • 2 sleep, baby, sleep
  • 3 ben dewberry's final run
  • 4 mother was a lady
  • 5 t for texas (blue yodel no. 1)
  • 6 away out on the mountain
  • 7 dear old sunny south by the sea
  • 8 treasures untold
  • 9 brakeman's blues (yodeling the blues awa
  • 10 the sailor's plea
  • 11 in the jailhouse now
  • 12 my lovin' gal lucille [blue yodel no. 2]
  • 13 memphis yodel
  • 14 evening sun yodel [blue yodel no. 3]
  • 15 my old pal
  • 16 mississippi moon [previously unreleased]
  • 17 my little old home down in new orleans
  • 18 you and my old guitar
  • 19 daddy and home
  • 20 my little lady
  • 21 i'm lonely and blue [previously unreleas
  • 22 lullaby yodel
  • 23 never no mo' blues
• Disc 2
• • 1 my carolina sunshine girl
  • 2 california blues [blue yodel no. 4]
  • 3 waiting for a train
  • 4 i'm lonely and blue
  • 5 desert blues
  • 6 any old time
  • 7 blue yodel, no. 5
  • 8 high powered mama
  • 9 i'm sorry we met
  • 10 everybody does it in hawaii
  • 11 tuck away my lonesome blues
  • 12 train whistle blues
  • 13 jimmie's texas blues
  • 14 frankie and johnny
  • 15 frankie and johnny
  • 16 home call
  • 17 home call [previously unreleased]
  • 18 whisper your mother's name
  • 19 the land of my boyhood dreams
  • 20 the land of my boyhood dreams
  • 21 midnight turning day blues (blue yodel n
  • 22 yodeling cowboy
  • 23 my rough and rowdy ways
  • 24 i've ranged, i've roamed, i've traveled
  • 25 i've ranged, i've roamed, i've traveled
  • 26 hobo bill's last ride
• Disc 3
• • 1 mississippi river blues [previously unre
  • 2 mississippi river blues
  • 3 nobody knows but me
  • 4 anniversary blue yodel [blue yodel no. 7
  • 5 anniversary blue yodel [blue yodel no. 7
  • 6 she was happy till she met you
  • 7 blue yodel, no. 11
  • 8 blue yodel, no. 11
  • 9 a drunkard's child
  • 10 that's why i'm blue
  • 11 why did you give me your love? [previous
  • 12 why did you give me your love?
  • 13 my blue-eyed jane
  • 14 why should i be lonely?
  • 15 moonlight and skies
  • 16 pistol packin' papa
  • 17 take me back again
  • 18 those gambler's blues
  • 19 i'm lonesome too
  • 20 the one rose
  • 21 for the sake of days gone by
  • 22 jimmie's mean mama blues
  • 23 the mystery of number five
  • 24 mule skinner blues (blue yodel no. 8)
• Disc 4
• • 1 in the jailhouse now, no. 2 [take 2]
  • 2 standin' on the corner [blue yodel no. 9
  • 3 t.b. blues [previously unreleased]
  • 4 t.b. blues
  • 5 travellin' blues [previously unreleased]
  • 6 travellin' blues
  • 7 travellin' blues [previously unreleased]
  • 8 jimmie the kid
  • 9 jimmie the kid [previously unreleased]
  • 10 why there's a tear in my eye [and sara c
  • 11 the wonderful city [and sara carter]
  • 12 let me be your sidetrack [previously unr
  • 13 let me be your sidetrack
  • 14 let me be your sidetrack [previously unr
  • 15 jimmie rodgers visits the carter family
  • 16 the carter family and jimmie rodgers in
  • 17 when the cactus is in bloom
  • 18 gambling polka dot blues
  • 19 looking for a new mama [previously unrel
  • 20 looking for a new mama
  • 21 what's it?
  • 22 my good gal's gone blues [previously unr
  • 23 my good gal's gone blues
  • 24 southern cannonball
• Disc 5
• • 1 roll along, kentucky moon [previously un
  • 2 roll along, kentucky moon
  • 3 hobo's meditation
  • 4 hobo's meditation [previously unreleased
  • 5 my time ain't long
  • 6 ninety nine year blues
  • 7 mississippi moon
  • 8 mississippi moon [previously unreleased]
  • 9 down the old road to home
  • 10 groundhog rootin' in my backyard [blue y
  • 11 home call
  • 12 mother, the queen of my heart
  • 13 rock all our babies to sleep
  • 14 whippin' that old t.b. [previously unrel
  • 15 whippin' that old t.b.
  • 16 no hard times
  • 17 no hard times [previously unreleased]
  • 18 long tall mama blues
  • 19 peach pickin' time in georgia
  • 20 gambling bar room blues
  • 21 i've only loved three women
  • 22 in the hills of tennessee
  • 23 prairie lullaby
  • 24 miss the mississippi and you
• Disc 6
• • 1 sweet mama hurry home
  • 2 barefoot blues [blue yodel no. 12]
  • 3 dreaming with tears in my eyes
  • 4 the cowhand's last ride
  • 5 i'm free from the chain gang now
  • 6 dreaming with tears in my eyes
  • 7 yodeling my way back home
  • 8 jimmie rodgers' last blue yodel (women m
  • 9 the yodeling ranger
  • 10 old pal of my heart
  • 11 old love letters
  • 12 mississippi delta blues
  • 13 somewhere down below the dixon line
  • 14 years ago
  • 15 the singing brakeman [the movie soundtra
  • 16 the pullman porters [take 1][previously
  • 17 in the jailhouse now, no. 2 [take 2]
  • 18 mule skinner blues (blue yodel no. 8) [o
  • 19 peach pickin' time in georgia [overdub]
  • 20 mother, the queen of my heart [overdub]
  • 21 never no mo' blues [overdub]
  • 22 t for texas (blue yodel no. 1)
  • 23 daddy and home [overdub]
  • 24 memphis yodel [overdub][previously unrel