tracks 8 arranged by Warner Williams
tracks 5, 13 backing vocals Jay Summerour
design Joe Parisi
tracks 9 guitar Eddie Pennington
guitar Warner Williams
tracks 1 to 4, 11, 12, 14 harmonica Jay Summerour
layout Joe Parisi
liner notes [editing] Leslie Spitz-Edson
mastered by Pete Reiniger
producer Nick Spitzer
production manager Mary Monseur
recorded by Big Mo Mobile Recording
recorded by John Tyler
recorded by Smithsonian Productions
research Leslie Spitz-Edson
supervised by D.A. Sonneborn
supervised by Daniel Sheehy
vocals Warner Williams
tracks 5, 13 whistling Jay Summerour
tracks 6 written-by Al Neiburg
tracks 13 written-by Andy Razaf
tracks 3, 5, 12 written-by Big Bill Broonzy
tracks 4 written-by Bob Wills
tracks 5 written-by Charles Segar
tracks 6 written-by Doc Daugherty
tracks 6 written-by Ellis Reynolds
tracks 13 written-by Fats Waller
tracks 1 written-by J.B. Long
tracks 14 written-by Jay Summerour
tracks 2 written-by John Henry Barbee
tracks 10 written-by Maceo Merriweather
tracks 11 written-by Robert Brown
tracks 7 written-by Sonny Boy Williamson
tracks 9 written-by Vern Orr
Phonographic Copyright (p) Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Copyright (c) Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Recorded At Wolf Trap, Vienna
℗© 2004 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Center for Folklore and Cultural Heritage 750 9th St., NW, Suite 4100
Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC 20560-0953
www.si.edu/folkways

Recordings made March 6, 1993, March 19, 1994, and April 7, 1995 -- Recorded by John Tyler, Smithsonian Productions and Big Mo Mobile Recording.

Guitarist and songster Warner Williams of Takoma Park, Maryland, is one of the greatest unsung heroes of the Piedmont blues, an Eastern seaboard style that incorporates fiddle tunes, ballads, country and popular songs, ragtime. and gospel. With a jaunty, rhythmic, finger-picked guitar style and an eclectic repertoire that ranges from blues to honky-tonk, jazz crooning to children's songs. Warner Williams is an old-style community entertainer of national significance. He is joined by Maryland native Jay Summerour on harmonica and backing vocals. Together they conjure up a historic Piedmont duo like Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee as they make their on way on the blues highway.

Produced in collaboration with the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts and the University of New Orleans, College of Urban and Public Affairs. Underwritten by The Wallace Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Barcode: 0 93074 01202 4
Label Code: LC 9628
ASIN: B00019PDJI
Rights Society: ASCAP
Rights Society: BMI
Matrix / Runout: 53668AM-01 SFW-40120 040601-26