Merle and Grandpa's Farm and Home Hour (CMH Records CMH-9032, 1985) is a studio album from Merle Travis and Grandpa Jones recorded in Albuquerque and styled as a nostalgic recreation of the 1940s radio barn dance — complete with between-song banter and an on-mic announcer persona. Travis plays guitar and banjo and sings; Jones plays banjo and sings; Joe Maphis plays guitar, mandolin, and fiddle; Rose Lee Maphis sings; Ramona Jones plays mandolin and fiddle; Mark Jones plays banjo; Marsha Jones plays autoharp; Alisa Jones plays hammered dulcimer; and Billy Linneman holds the bass. Travis and Jones were longtime friends and former members of the Brown's Ferry Four, and the album reunites them with the Maphis family and the full Jones family ensemble in a project that evokes the communal variety-show spirit of the radio barn-dance world both men had inhabited since the 1940s.
Tracklist
- 1 Darlin' Corey 3:09
- 2 Fair & Tender Ladies 2:52
- 3 I'll Be All Smiles Tonight 3:33
- 4 Wished I'd Stayed In the Wagon Yard 1:56
- 5 Red Rockin' Chair 2:52
- 6 Whipperwill Song 2:11
- 7 Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down alt version 2:13
- 8 Prisoner’s Song alt version 2:43
- 9 In the Baggage Coach Ahead 2:44
- 10 Jesse James alt version 2:39
- 11 Devil’s Dream alt version 2:35
- 12 Girl In the Blue Velvet Band 2:38
- 13 There'll Come a Time 4:29
- 14 Dark Hollow alt version 2:53
- 15 Are You From Dixie 2:02
- 16 Life is Like a Mountain Railway alt version 3:28
- 17 Will the Circle be Unbroken alt version 5:38
- 18 Little Rosewood Casket 4:17
- 19 Log Cabin in the Lane alt version 2:55
- 20 Darby's Run 1:44
- 21 The House of the Rising Sun alt version 3:27
- 22 Little Blossom 3:09
- 23 Fiddler’s Dram alt version 4:42
- 24 Down the Old Plank Road 2:22
- 25 Whiskey Before Breakfast alt version 2:51
- 26 Black Eyed Suzy 1:43
- 27 You Are My Flower alt version 3:09
- 28 Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms alt version 2:37
- 29 I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes alt version 3
- 30 Little Liza Jane alt version 1:31
- 31 Pictures From Life's Other Side 4:33
- 32 Maple on the Hill 2:54
- 33 Rank Stranger alt version 3:08
- 34 Gathering Flowers From the Hillside 3:01
- 35 The Blind Girl 3:22
- 36 I Wonder How the Old Folks are at Home alt version 3:03
- 37 Limehouse Blues alt version 1:20
- 38 Shuckin’ the Corn alt version 2:06
- 39 Arkansas Traveler alt version 3:04
- 40 Old Camp Meeting Time 2:14
