The Rich-R-Tone Folk Star Story: Appalachia on Record 1946-1954 (deluxe edition)

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Annotation

Released as a LP-sized box set, limited to 1000 copies

Includes 12 CDs in four six-panel digisleeves, and a 148-page book with liner notes on the history of the Rich-R-Tone label, biographical notes for the artists included on the box set, as well as a session discography and a label discography.

© 2025 Bear Family Records GmbH

Some copies come with a bonus disc of "Various – Tell It To Me / Revisiting The Johnson City Sessions 1928-1929" inside the box.

Other Identifiers
Label Code: LC 05197
Rights Society: GEMA
Other (Cat.nr. CD1/CD2/CD3): BCD 17549-1/2/3
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Other (Cat.nr. CD7/CD8/CD9): BCD 17549-7/8/9
Other (Cat.nr. CD7): BCD 17549-7
Other (Cat.nr. CD8): BCD 17549-8
Other (Cat.nr. CD9): BCD 17549-9
Other (Cat.nr. CD10/11/12): BCD 17549-10/11/12
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Other (Cat.nr. CD11): BCD 17549-11
Other (Cat.nr. CD12): BCD 17549-12
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Annotation last modified on 2025-12-13 09:21 UTC.

Tracklist

1▶CD: Rich-R-Tone 398-411
2▶CD: Rich-R-Tone 412 - 427
3▶CD: Rich-R-Tone 431-452
4▶CD: Rich-R-Tone 453-476
5▼CD: Rich-R-Tone 701-703 / Eureka 801 / Rich-R-Tone 1002-1013
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1I'll Be No Stranger There
Sauceman Brothers with their Hillbilly Ramblers Quartet2:21
2Hallelujah, We Shall Rise
guitar:
J.P. Sauceman
mandolin:
Joe Stuart (US bluegrass musician)
vocals:
Ralph Mayo, Carl Sauceman, J.P. Sauceman and Joe Stuart (US bluegrass musician)
Sauceman Brothers with their Hillbilly Ramblers Quartet1:56
3Whisper Goodbye
Buffalo Johnson3:35
4Goodbye Boogie
Buffalo Johnson2:48
5I Was a Fool (To Fall in Love with You)
Lloyd Haynes2:43
6I Heard an Angel Weeping
Lloyd Haynes2:51
7Don't You Want to Join That Number
Happy Gospel Singers3:11
8Just a Closer Walk With Thee
Happy Gospel Singers3:37
9Too Many Tears
Bill Ward2:57
10Trouble
Bill Ward2:36
11Why Does the Army Need My Daddy
George Simerly & His Tennesseans3:05
12It Happens Every Day
George Simerly & His Tennesseans2:52
13A Wife to Love and a Horse to Plow
Buster Pack & His Lonesome Pine Boys3:01
14Honey Won't You Tell Me Please
Buster Pack & His Lonesome Pine Boys2:45
15I Want to Be Ready
Christian Crusaders Quartet2:50
16Bound for the Kingdom
Christian Crusaders Quartet2:54
17I Don't Know Why
Bill Alford & His Tennessee Hillbillies3:46
18The Worried Blues
Bill Alford & His Tennessee Hillbillies2:52
19I'm Lonely for You
The Church Brothers & Their Blue Ridge Ramblers2:29
20A Sweeter Love Than Yours I'll Never Know
The Church Bros. & Their Blue Ridge Ramblers2:53
21You Gotta Eat Sometime
Texas Slim Owenby2:39
22Look What You've Gone and Done to Me
Texas Slim Owenby2:36
23Time Don't Mean Much Anymore
Frank Hunter & His Country Boys2:57
24Two Can't Win - One Must Lose
Frank Hunter & His Country Boys2:51
25Let's Live a Little (Before We Say Goodbye)
Buffalo Johnson2:47
26You Sure Look Lonesome (In That Corner)
Buffalo Johnson2:37
6▶CD: Rich-R-Tone 1014-1031
7▶CD: Rich-R-Tone 1032-1049
8▶CD: Rich-R-Tone 1050-1062
9▶CD: Rich-R-Tone 1063-1067 / Folk Star 500-601
10▶CD: Folk Star 602-619
11▶CD: Folk Star 621-655
12▶CD: Champion 901-902 / Folk Star 1000-1007

Credits

Release

copyrighted (©) by:Bear Family Records
pressed by:TAKT (Polish manufacturer)
glass mastered at:TAKT in Olkusz, Małopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship), Poland
Discogs:https://www.discogs.com/release/34882697 [info]