Traveling Shoes Aaron Smithers, music editor (bio) Despite a devotion to the idyllic homestead, the southern journey circumvents the globe. The traveler takes to the road on a never-ending search for home, that ever-elusive sanctuary constructed in memory and remodeled in song. The seeker looks to the edges of the earth for enlightenment, and the sinner looks beyond for sonic salvation. Their stories feed the dreams of voices as yet unheard, singing songs of a new South that reverberate with echoes from the past. Track List 1 |. "Waipio" WILLIAM SMITH & WALTER K. KOLOMOKU 3:10 Edison Records, 2726 Edison Blue Amberol (1915), Cylinder 1000, courtesy of the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, Department of Special Collections, Donald C. Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, cylinders.library.ucsb.edu 2 |. "New Nashville" JOSEPH DECOSIMO & THE BUCKING MULES 2:51 Sequatchie Valley, cdbaby.com/cd/josephdecosimo 3 |. "Appalachistan" HINDUGRASS 6:17 Hindugrass, hindugrass.net 4 |. "Para el mundo entero" ORQUESTA GARDEL 4:50 Lo Que Tú Querías, orquestagardel.com 5 |. "Bani" DIALI CISSOKHO & KAIRA BA 4:28 Resonance, kairabamusic.com 6 |. "Our Lady of the Tall Trees" CAHALEN MORRISON & ELI WEST 3:36 Our Lady of the Tall Trees, cahalenandeli.com 7 |. "Ana Mía" LOS TEXMANIACS 3:19 Texas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds, Smithsonian Folkways, courtesy of Max Baca, folkways.si.edu, texmaniacs.com 8 |. "Cry for Judas" THE MOUNTAIN GOATS 3:09 Transcendental Youth, courtesy of Merge Records, mergerecords.com, mountain-goats.com 9 |. "Tout ça" TOUSSA 3:52 Toussa, courtesy of Toussa Senerap, reverbnation.com/toussasenerap 10 |. "Lotus" ANN YAO 3:13 More Music from the Florida Folklife Collection, CD 2, courtesy State Library and Archives of Florida and Ann Yao, floridamemory.com 11 |. "Lamplighting Time" RAYNA GELLERT & NATHAN SALSBURG 4:24 Old Light: Songs from My Childhood & Other Gone Worlds, StorySound Records, storysoundrecords.com, raynagellert.com 12 |. "Night Comes In" DAN MELCHIOR 2:54 The Backwards Path, Northern-Spy, in recognition of the Letha Rodman Melchior Cancer Fund, northern-spy.com, danmelchior.net, melchiorfund.blogspot.com 13 |. "Parte Pri" JEFF REHNLUND 3:54 peripheral heavens, discogs.com/artist/Jeff+Rehnlund 14 |. "Looking for All (All Rendered Truth)" LONNIE HOLLEY 3:05 Just Before Music, Dust-to-Digital, dust-digital.com 15 |. "Seven Pines" DANIEL BACHMAN 7:06 Seven Pines, Tompkins Square, tompkinssquare.com, discogs.com/artist/Daniel+Bachman 16 |. "Flat Wheel Train Blues (Part 1)" JACK WELLMAN & RED GAY 3:18 Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music, 1923-1936, Tompkins Square, tompkinssquare.com, roothogordie.wordpress.com 17 |. "Resurrection Blues" HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER 5:36 Root Work, Heaven and Earth Magic Recording Company, heavenandearthmagic.com 18 |. "Standing in Your Door" JESSE LÉGE, JOEL SAVOY, & THE CAJUN COUNTRY REVIVAL 2:46 The Right Combination, Valcour Records, valcourrecords.com, jesseandjoel.com, CalebKlauder.com 19 |. "Agua Fresca" PAVELID CASTAÑEDA 3:15 I Love You Much Too Much, reverbnation.com/pavelid 20 |. "Pretty Good Beards of the Civil War" THE TWO MAN GENTLEMEN BAND 2:11 thetwogentlemen.com RUNNING TIME 77:14 MASTERED BY Aaron Smithers and John Loy, UNC's Southern Folklife Collection Aaron Smithers Aaron Smithers is a folklorist living in Carrboro, NC. A long time organizer of the International Accordion Festival in San Antonio, TX, he currently works as assistant to the curator at UNC's Southern Folklife Collection and as an instructor of audio documentary at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Special thanks to Steve Weiss, Head, UNC's Southern Folklife Collection [End Page 1] Copyright © 2013 Center for the Study of the American South