Not technically a Cairo records release but it has one of their catalogue numbers and Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records assisted!

An austere and dialed compilation of 1920's and 1930's ballads. All plaintive solo vocals accompanied by the banjo. No dance songs.

Instead you get intense very American tunes about existential angst, murder, love, mystical happenings and so on. The mana.

As far as Cairo know, this is the first record to compile purely hard hitting banjo ballads from the golden 78 era.

Tracklist:

Side A
Clarence Ashley - Dark Holler Blues
Crockett Family Mountaineers - Sugar Hill
John Hammond - As Free A Little Bird As Can Be
BF Shelton - Darling Cora
Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Italy
Emry Arthur & Della Hatfield - Short Life of Trouble

Side B
John Hammond - Pretty Polly
Dock Walsh - In The Pines
John Hammond - My Mama Always Talked To Me
BF Shelton - Oh Molly Dear
Samantha Bumgarner - Georgia Blues
John Hammond - Little Birdie