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From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music – 4 CD box set

Produced by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music chronicles nearly one-hundred years of country music made by Black artists—from the stringbands of the 1920s and ’30s and the country songs covered by rhythm & blues stars, to the breakthrough of Charley Pride and his contemporaries, and the wide-ranging artists who have continued to blaze a trail into the twenty-first century.

The collection originally appeared as a three-disc box set in 1998 and was immediately greeted with both a warm reception and critical acclaim. This expanded and updated edition adds two new essays and a fourth disc of music featuring twenty-first century artists, bringing the story up to the present.

Disc 1 – The Stringband Era

1. DeFord Bailey- “Pan American Blues”
2. DeFord Bailey- “Muscle Shoals Blues”
3. Taylor’s Kentucky Boys - “Gray Eagle”
4. Georgia Yellow Hammers - “G Rag”
5. Andrew & Jim Baxter - “K. C. Railroad Blues”
6. The Dallas String Band - “Dallas Rag”
7. James Cole String Band - “Bill Cheatem”
8. Peg Leg Howell & Eddie Anthony - “Turkey Buzzard Blues”
9. Charlie McCoy & Bo Chatmon - “Corrine Corrina”
10. Mississippi Sheiks - “Sitting on Top of the World”
11. Mississippi Sheiks - “Yodeling Fiddling Blues”
12. Memphis Sheiks- “He’s in the Jailhouse Now”
13. Mississippi Mud Steppers- “Morning Glory Waltz”
14. Lead Belly - “The Midnight Special”
15. Lead Belly - “Rock Island Line”
16. Nathan Frazier & Frank Patterson - “Eighth of January”
17. Murph Gribble, John Lusk & Albert York - “Apple Blossom”
18. DeFord Bailey - “Fox Chase”

Disc 2 – Soul Country

1. Wynonie Harris - “Bloodshot Eyes”
2. The Orioles - “Crying in the Chapel”
3. Big Al Downing - “Down on the Farm”
4. Ivory Joe Hunter - “City Lights”
5. Ray Charles - “I’m Movin’ On”
6. Ray Charles - “I Can’t Stop Loving You”
7. Bobby Hebb - “Night Train to Memphis”
8. Solomon Burke - “Just Out of Reach”
9. Fats Domino - “You Win Again”
10. Esther Phillips -  “Release Me”
11. Joe Hinton - “Funny How Time Slips Away”
12. Arthur Alexander - “Detroit City”
13. The Supremes - “It Makes No Difference Now”
14. Bobby Hebb - “A Satisfied Mind”
15. The Staple Singers - “Will the Circle Be Unbroken”
16. Joe Tex - “Half a Mind”
17. Etta James - “Almost Persuaded”
18. Joe Simon - “The Chokin’ Kind”
19. Ivory Joe Hunter - “He’ll Never Love You”
20. Dorothy Moore - “Misty Blue”

Disc 3 – Forward with Pride

1. Charley Pride - “The Snakes Crawl at Night”
2. Charley Pride - “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone”
3. Charley Pride - “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’”
4. Linda Martell - “Color Him Father”
5. Otis Williams & the Midnight Cowboys -  “How I Got to Memphis”
6. La Melle Prince - “The Man That Made a Woman Out of Me”
7. Stoney Edwards - “She’s My Rock”
8. Stoney Edwards - “Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul”
9. Stoney Edwards - “Pickin’ Wildflowers”
10. O. B. McClinton - “Don’t Let the Green Grass Fool You”
11. Jo Ann Sweeney - “I’ll Take It”
12. The Pointer Sisters - “Fairytale”
13. Ruby Falls - “Show Me Where”
14. Lenora Ross - “Lonely Together”
15. Big Al Downing - “Touch Me (I’ll Be Your Fool Once More)”
16. Professor Longhair -  “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)”
17. Dobie Gray - “From Where I Stand”
18. Cleve Francis - “Love Light”
19. Aaron Neville - “The Grand Tour”
20. Barrence Whitfield - “Irma Jackson”
21. Ted Hawkins - “There Stands the Glass”
22. Herb Jeffries - “I’m a Happy Cowboy”

Disc 4 – Reclaiming the Heritage

1. Carolina Chocolate Drops - “Ruby, Are You Mad at Your Man?”
2. Rhiannon Giddens - “At the Purchaser’s Option”
3. Darius Rucker - “Wagon Wheel”
4. Darius Rucker - “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It”
5. Valerie June - “Workin’ Woman Blues”
6. Our Native Daughters - “Black Myself”
7. Mavis Staples - “Touch My Heart”
8. Tony Jackson - “I Didn’t Wake Up This Morning”
9. Rissi Palmer -  “Country Girl”
10. Miko Marks - “It Feels Good”
11. Kane Brown - “Heaven” 
12. Kane Brown - “Worldwide Beautiful”
13. Yola - “Ride Out in the Country”
14. Allison Russell - “Nightflyer”
15. Wendy Moten - “’Til I Get It Right”
16. Cowboy Troy - “I Play Chicken with the Train”
17. Blanco Brown - “The Git Up”
18. BRELAND - “Cross Country” 
19. Brittney Spencer - “Bigger Than the Song”
20. Mickey Guyton - “Black Like Me”
21. Keb’ Mo’ - “Loving Arms”
22. The War and Treaty - “A Lesson in Leavin’”