Contains "Down On The Farm" by Big Al Downing and The Poe Kats and "Touch Me" by Big Al Downing.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

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

Disc 2:

1. Bloodshot Eyes - Wynonie Harris
2. Crying in the Chapel - The Orioles
3. Down on the Farm - Big Al Downing
4. City Lights - Ivory Joe Hunter
5. I'm Movin' On - Ray Charles
6. Night Train to Memphis - Bobby Hebb
7. Just Out of Reach - Solomon Burke
8. You Win Again - Fats Domino
9. Release Me - Esther Phillips
10. Funny How Time Slips Away - Joe Hinton
11. Detroit City - Arthur Alexander
12. It Makes No Difference Now - The Supremes
13. Satisfied Mind - Bobby Hebb
14. Will the Circle Be Unbroken - The Staple Singers
15. Half a Mind - Joe Tex
16. Almost Persuaded - Etta James
17. Chokin' Kind - Joe Simon
18. For the Good Times - Al Green
19. He'll Never Love You - Ivory Joe Hunter
20. Misty Blue - Dorothy Moore

Disc 3:

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

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #236757 in Music
• Released on: 1998-02-03
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Box set

Amazon.com essential recording
From Where I Stand traces the history of a specific influence--the country tradition--on a particular group: black American musicians. In both conception and execution it's nearly perfect. Through three discs, this 60-song box shows how country music began in the string-band era as something shared, more than less, by both black and white musicians; how country songs have been a consistent source of inspiration to R&B and soul performers from Etta James to Al Green; and how singers such as Stoney Edwards and O.B. McClinton have followed in the footsteps of Charley Pride to help in the creation of today's brand of rock & roll-influenced country music. Which is all just to say that, for fans of country-music history, From Where I Stand is absolutely essential. --David Cantwell

Vibe
Obsessed with farm, family, religion, alcohol, and movin' on, this collection of songs--all credited to black performers--documents the gray areas wherein two rural cultures collide.... [A] lot of From Where I Stand: [The Black Experience in Country Music] is black drawing on white drawing on black.... Not every jump-blueser or Motowner covering Hank or Willie on these discs adapts naturally to country's sway. But certain superstars--Al Green, Fats Domino, and, most famously, Ray Charles--do surprisingly well on this very complete boxed set....

Entertainment Weekly
It painstakingly explores the stylistic interplay between country and blues and folk, highlighting such groundbreakers as Grand Ole Opry harmonica master DeFord Bailey, soul man Ray Charles (who made two albums of country songs in the '60s), and Nashville star O.B. McClinton. . . .