TRACK LIST
Side A
1. GREEN FIELDS OF AMERICA, (1:30) (Stelle Elam, fiddle solo)
2. STONEY POINT, (:56) (Stelle Elam, fiddle solo)
3. FAIR FANNY MOORE, ( 3:35) (Cecil Goodwin, guitar and vocal)
4. OLD AGE PENSION, (1:24) (Cecil Goodwin, guitar and vocal)
5. CROW CREEK -- JAY BIRD -- TENNESSEE WAGGONER, (2:56) (Stelle
Elam, fiddle; Lyle Mayfield, guitar)
6. THE BLACK SHEEP, (3:33) (Lyle Mayfield, guitar and vocal)
7. THE LETTER EDGED IN BLACK, (3:45) (Doric Mayfield, guitar and
vocal; Lyle Mayfield, mandolin)
8. DRINK 'ER DOWN, (3:02) (Lyle Mayfield, guitar and vocal)
9. GREEN CORN, (:42) (Jim Goodwin, banjo solo)
10. HASTE TO THE WEDDING, (:52) (Jim Goodwin, fiddle; Cecil Goodwin,
guitar)
11. SALLY GOODIN, (:55) (Lyle Mayfield, mandolin; Doris Mayfield, guitar)
Side B
1. BILLY IN THE LOW GROUND, (1:32) (Stelle Elam, fiddle solo*)
2. BUFFALO NICKEL, (1:28) (Stelle Elam, fiddle solo*)
3. MY LITTLE GIRL, (:38) (Cecil Goodwin, guitar and vocal)
4. BILLY RICHARDSON'S LAST RIDE, (2:20) (Cecil Goodwin, guitar and
vocal)
5. APPLES IN THE SUMMERTIME, (1:02) (Jim Goodwin, guitar solo)
6. OLD COON DOG -- MISSISSIPPI SAWYER, (1:40) (Jim Goodwin, fiddle;
Cecil Goodwin, guitar)
7. PUT MY LITTLE SHOES AWAY, (2:10) (Lyle Mayfield, guitar and
vocal; Doris Mayfield, vocal)
8. MISSISSIPPI FLOOD, (1:50) (Cecil Goodwin, guitar and vocal)
9. TRAMP ON THE STREET, (2:36) (Cathy Reynolds, vocal; Lloyd
Reynolds, guitar)
10. FARTHER ALONG, (3:00) (Cathy Reynolds, vocal; Lloyd Reynolds, guitar
and vocal)
11. LORD, BUILD ME A CABIN IN GLORY LAND, (1:40) (Cathy Reynolds, vocal;
Lloyd Reynolds, guitar and vocal)
12. LIFE'S RAILWAY TO HEAVEN, (3:24) (Cathy Reynolds, vocal; Lloyd
Reynolds, guitar; Lyle Mayfield, mandolin)
* The record cover and booklet show
these tracks as being fiddle solo, but in fact there is a guitar accompaniment
on both. I suspect that, as on "Crow Creek-Jay Bird-Tennessee
Waggoner" on Side A, the guitarist is Lyle Mayfield.
"Green Fields Of
Illinois" was a record of traditional folk music performed by artists from
southern Illinois, released by the Campus Folksong Club of the University
of Illinois in 1963. It was accompanied by a booklet with extensive
documentation about the artists and their songs. At this website I have
reproduced much of the content of that booklet as well as some of the images and
cover art.
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