art direction Coco Shinomiya
compilation producer James Austin
compilation producer Patrick Milligan
design Rachel Gutek
liner notes Mark Humphrey
liner notes [discographical annotation] Patrick Milligan
painting [cover painting] Thomas Hart Benton
photography by [photos: courtesy of] Country Music Foundation
remastered by Chris Clarke
remastered by Dan Hersch
Phonographic Copyright (p) Rhino Records Inc.
Copyright (c) Rhino Records Inc.
Glass Mastered At Specialty Records Corporation
Pressed By Allied Record Company
Recorded At Castle Studio
Recorded At Bradley Film & Recording Studios
Recorded At Bradley's Barn
Recorded At Radio Station WNER
Recorded At Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville
Recorded At World Pacific Studios
Recorded At Capitol Transcriptions Studios
Recorded At Tracy Schwarz's House
Recorded At Woodland Studios
Recorded At Track Recorders
Recorded At Studio By The Pond
Recorded At Enactron Truck
Recorded At Nashville Sound Connection
Remastered At DigiPrep
Track 1 recorded at Castle Studio, Nashville, Oct. 15, 1950 / Decca single #46283, Dec. 18, 1950
Track 2 recorded in Cincinnati, Dec. 11, 1949 / Mercury single #6247, Apr. 1950
Track 3 recorded at Bradley Studio, Nashville, Aug. 9, 1953 / Mercury single #70217, Aug. 20, 1953
Track 4 recorded at Castle Studio, Nashville, June 13, 1952 / Capitol single #2233, Sept. 29, 1952
Track 5 recorded in Nashville, Jan. 13, 1960 / Decca single #31157, ca. Sept. 7, 1960
Track 6 recorded at Bradley's Barn, Nashville, Nov. 16, 1967 / Decca single #32242, Dec. 25, 1967
Track 7 recorded at Bradley Studio, Nashville, Sept. 4, 1954 / Decca single #29289, Oct. 4, 1954
Track 8 recorded at Radio Station WNER, Live Oak, FL, 1960 / Originally recorded for the Jim Walter Jamboree radio show; first issued on the album On Radio, Vol.1, County #780, Nov. 23, 1983
Track 9 recorded at Columbia Studio, Nashville, Sept. 24, 1962 / Columbia single #42606, Oct. 12, 1962
Track 10 recorded at World Pacific Studios, Hollywood, (prob) late 1962 / Elektra single #45003, 1963
Track 11 recorded at World Pacific Studios, Hollywood, Feb. 25, 1964 / From the album Appalachian Swing!, World Pacific #1821, Apr. 20, 1964
Track 12 recorded at Capitol Transcriptions Studios, Washington D.C., late 1959 / From the album Country Songs, Old And New, Folkways #2409, 1960
Track 13 recorded at Tracy Schwarz's house, Glenrock, PA, Dec. 10, 1967 / From the album Del McCoury Sings Bluegrass, Arhoolie #5006, 1968
Track 14 recorded in Clayton, GA,, May 16, 1971 / Warner Bros. Single #7659, Nov. 15, 1972
Track 15 recorded at Woodland Sound Studios, Nashville, Aug. 1971 / From the album Will The Circle Be Unbroken, United Artists #9801, Oct. 2, 1972
Track 16 recorded at Track Recorders, Silver Spring, MD, Jan. 1975 / From the album The New South, Rounder #0044, Aug. 1975
Track 17 recorded at Studio By The Pond, Hendersonville, TN & Enactron Truck, Los Angeles, 1979 / From the album Sweet Temptation, Sugar Hill #3706, 1979
Track 18 recorded at Nashville Sound Connection, Nashville, 1989 / From the album Two Highways, Rounder #0265, May 1989

Cover painting, The Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley, 1934.
Courtesy of The Spencer Museum of Art/The University of Kansas/The Elizabeth Watkins Fund
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