Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You: The Fonotone Years 1958–1965

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. 1 Interview: John Fahey on Fonotone Records and Joe Bussard 2:59
2. 2 Franklin Blues 3:15
3. 3 Smoketown Strut 3:14
4. 4 Steel Guitar Rag 3:24
5. 5 Takoma Park Pool Hall Blues 3:31
6. 6 Buck Dancer’s Choice (1) 3:19
7. 7 Medley: Pretty Polly / Shortnin’ Bread 3:40
8. 8 Barbara Namkin Blues 3:13
9. 9 In Christ There Is No East or West 3:57
10. 10 Stak ’o Lee Blues (Louis Collins) 3:24
11. 11 The Transcendental Waterfall (1) 3:01
12. 12 John Henry (1) 3:09
13. 13 Over the Hill Blues (1) 3:57
14. 14 St. Louis Blues 4:06
15. 15 On Doing an Evil Deed Blues 3:29
16. 16 Reinumeration Blues (Brenda’s Blues) (1) 2:08
17. 17 The Transcendental Waterfall (2) 5:09
18. 18 Mississippi Boweavil Blues 2:46
19. 19 Green River Blues 2:59
20. 20 Over the Hill Blues (2) 2:44
21. 21 Libba’s Rag 3:08
22. 22 Chris’s Rag 3:14

Disc 2

1. 1 St. Louis Tickle 3:12
2. 2 Pat Sullivan’s Blues 3:24
3. 3 Blind Blues (a.k.a. Martin’s Esso Blues) 2:41
4. 4 Poor Boy Blues 3:36
5. 5 Long Time Town Blues 3:29
6. 6 Gulf Port Island Blues 3:32
7. 7 Blind Thomas Blues, Part 1 3:20
8. 8 Blind Thomas Blues, Part 2 3:24
9. 9 New Newport News Blues #2 2:56
10. 10 Wanda Russell’s Blues 3:20
11. 11 Going Away to Leave You Blues 3:13
12. 12 Lay My Burden Down 2:28
13. 13 Hill High Blues 3:06
14. 14 John Henry (2) 2:54
15. 15 Paint Brush Blues 3:18
16. 16 Blind Thomas Blues, Part 3 3:11
17. 17 Blind Thomas Blues, Part 4 3:29
18. 18 You Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond 3:00
19. 19 Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin’ Bed 3:11
20. 20 Banty Rooster Blues 3:13
21. 21 Tom Rushen Blues 3:35

Disc 3

1. 1 Yallaboosha River Blues 3:43
2. 2 You Gonna Miss Me 3:20
3. 3 Wissenschaftlich River Blues, Part 1 3:17
4. 4 Wissenschaftlich River Blues, Part 2 3:28
5. 5 Zekiah Swamp Blues 3:25
6. 6 Nobody’s Business 3:12
7. 7 Going Crabbing Talking Blues, Part 1 3:09
8. 8 Going Crabbing Talking Blues, Part 2 3:15
9. 9 You Better Get Right So God Can Use You 3:27
10. 10 Weissman Blues 3:06
11. 11 Dasein River Blues 3:12
12. 12 Racemic Tartrate River Blues, Part 1 3:11
13. 13 Racemic Tartrate River Blues, Part 2 3:13
14. 14 Smoky Ordinary Blues (1) (Dance of the Inhabitants (1)) 3:01
15. 15 I Shall Not Be Moved 3:06
16. 16 Old Country Rock 3:11
17. 17 Little Hat Blues 3:19
18. 18 Guitar Solo Title Unknown (1) (Revelation on the Banks of the Pawtuxent (1)) 2:57
19. 19 Guitar Solo Title Unknown (2) (Night Train to Valhalla (1)) 3:27
20. 20 Some Summer Day (2) 5:44
21. 21 The Langley Two-Step 1:37
22. 22 Dream of the Origin of the French Broad River 2:53

Disc 4

1. 1 Saint John’s Hornpipe 1:12
2. 2 Sail Away Ladies 1:16
3. 3 Dreaming Under the B & O Trestle 3:19
4. 4 900 Miles 4:36
5. 5 Prince George’s Dance 2:59
6. 6 Imrpovisation for Flute and Guitar 3:33
7. 7 Dorothy / Calvert Street Blues (1) (Brenda’s Blues (2)) 1:40
8. 8 Brenda’s Blues (3) 0:46
9. 9 Buck Dancer’s Choice (2) 1:29
10. 10 Night Train to Valhalla (2) 4:22
11. 11 In the Pines 2:49
12. 12 Pretty Polly 3:31
13. 13 Take This Hammer 4:09
14. 14 Yazoo Basin Blues 6:38
15. 15 Stomping Tonight on The (Old) Pennsylvania / Alabama Border 3:47
16. 16 Smokey Ordinary Blues (2) (Dance of the Inhabitants (2)) 2:22
17. 17 Revelation on the Banks of the Pawtuxent (2) 3:17
18. 18 Bean Vine Blues (Pea Vine Blues) 2:18
19. 19 Green Blues 2:46
20. 20 Stone Pony 2:49

Disc 5

1. 1 Dorothy / Calvert Street Blues (2) (Brenda’s Blues (4)) 0:57
2. 2 Days Have Gone By 3:11
3. 3 Some Summer Day (2) 3:47
4. 4 Texas & Pacific Blues (My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It) 2:09
5. 5 John Henry Blues 2:37
6. 6 Brenda’s Blues (5) 1:49
7. 7 St. Patrick's Hymn 1:52
8. 8 Bicycle Built for Two 1:24
9. 9 The Blues You Saved for Me 1:35
10. 10 House Carpenter 1:30
11. 11 How Long (1) 2:25
12. 12 The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California 4:32
13. 13 You Take the E Train (The Last Steam Engine Train) 2:33
14. 14 I Sing a Song of the Saints of God 3:14
15. 15 How Long (2) 2:11
16. 16 O Jesus I Have Promised (1) 3:06
17. 17 Untitled (1) 1:09
18. 18 Medley: Untitled (2) / O Jesus I Have Promised (2) 3:24
19. 19 I Am a Rake and Rambling Boy 1:46
20. 20 Medley: Goodbye Old Paint (1) / Whoopee Ti‐Yi‐Yo, Git Along Little Doggies 1:25
21. 21 Goodbye Old Paint (2) 1:00
22. 22 Simple Gifts 0:53
23. 23 Untitled (3) 1:37
24. 24 Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie 1:41
25. 25 Goodbye Old Paint (3) 1:16
26. 26 Western Medley 6:01
27. 27 Durgan Park 2:06
28. 28 The Bitter Lemon 2:46
29. 29 Old Southern Medley (Fragment) 0:12
30. 30 Bottleneck Blues 2:59

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