The Best of the Vanguard Years

Original Release Date:  January 26, 1999

Track Listing

• 1. Midnight Special
• 2. Cotton Fields
• 3. Special Delivery Blues
• 4. Rambling Round Your City
• 5. Cool Water
• 6. Down on Me
• 7. I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain/Water Boy
• 8. Saro Jane
• 9. Battle Hymn of the Republic
• 10. If I Had a Hammer
• 11. Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
• 12. Meetin' at the Building
• 13. No More Auction Block
• 14. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
• 15. Spoken Introduction: He Had a Long Chain On
• 16. Another Man Done Gone
• 17. He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
• 18. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor [#]
• 19. Livin' with the Blues [#]
• 20. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out [#]
• 21. House of the Rising Sun [#]

Credits

• Alan Lomax: Composer
• Samuel Charters: Liner Notes
• Bill Lee: Bass
• John A. Lomax: Composer
• Milton Okun: Conductor
• Captain Jeff Zaraya: Engineer
• Tom Vickers: Producer
• Vera Hall: Composer
• David Gahr: Photography
• Drew Cartwright: Design
• William Steffe: Composer
• Ruby Pickens Tartt: Composer
• Julia Ward Howe: Composer