Track listing

1. "Take Me in Your Lifeboat" (Traditional) - 3:42
2. "Milk Cow Blues" (Arnold Kokomo) - 5:03
3. "I Find Jesus" (Jimmy Ibbotson) - 3:52
4. "Hold Whatcha Got" (Jimmy Martin) - 2:55
5. "Mama's Opry" (Iris Dement) - 4:21
6. "Diamonds in the Rough" (A. P. Carter
   A. P. Carter
   Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter , best known as A.P. Carter, was an American musician and founding member of The Carter Family, one of the most notable acts in the history of country music.-Life:...
   
   , Maybelle Carter
   Maybelle Carter
   "Mother" Maybelle Carter was an American country musician. She is best known as a member of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s and also as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters.-Biography:...
   
   , Sara Carter) - 3:39
7. "Lonesome River" (Carter Stanley) - 4:23
8. "Some Dark Holler" (Traditional) - 3:19
9. "The Lowlands" (Gary Scruggs) - 3:49
10. "Love, Please Come Home" (Leon Jackson) - 2:48
11. "Goodnight Irene" (Huddie Ledbetter, John A. Lomax) - 3:54
12. "I Know What It Means to be Lonesome" (James Brockman, James Kendis, Nathaniel Vincent) - 3:49
13. "I'll Be Faithful to You" (Paul Kennerley
    Paul Kennerley
    Paul Kennerley is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer working in the American contemporary country music industry. His works include the concept albums, White Mansions and The Legend of Jesse James...
    
    ) - 2:32
14. "Tears in the Holston River" (John R. Cash) - 4:14

1. "Fishin' Blues" (Taj Mahal
   Taj Mahal (musician)
   Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He incorporates elements of world music into his music...
   
   ) - 4:31
2. "Save It, Save It" (Charles Rufus Shoffner) - 1:57
3. "Wheels" (Chris Hillman
   Chris Hillman
   Christopher Hillman was one of the original members of The Byrds which in 1965 included Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby, and Michael Clarke....
   
   , Gram Parsons
   Gram Parsons
   Gram Parsons was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Parsons is best known for his work within the country genre; he also mixed blues, folk, and rock to create what he called "Cosmic American Music"...
   
   ) - 3:14
4. "Roll in my Sweet Baby's Arms" (Traditional) - 3:53
5. "Oh Cumberland" (Matraca Berg, Gary Harrison) - 4:21
6. "I Am a Pilgrim" (Doc Watson
   Doc Watson
   Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. He has won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's flatpicking skills and knowledge of traditional American music are highly regarded...
   
   ) - 4:09
7. "Sallie Ann" (Earl Scruggs
   Earl Scruggs
   Earl Eugene Scruggs is an American musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a 3-finger banjo-picking style that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music...
   
   ) - 2:37
8. "Catfish John" (Bob McDill
   Bob McDill
   Robert Lee "Bob" McDill is an American country music songwriter. Active from the 1960s until 2000, he has written several songs for country music artists, including more than thirty Number One hits...
   
   , Alan Reynolds
   Alan Reynolds
   Alan Reynolds is one of the original supply side economists.He is currently Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and was formerly Director of Economic Research at the Hudson Institute...
   
   ) - 4:07
9. "Roll The Stone Away" (Jeff Hanna, Marcus Hummon) - 4:09
10. "All Prayed Up" (Vince Gill
    Vince Gill
    Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
    
    ) - 3:09
11. "Return to Dismal Swamp II" (Walter McEuen, William McEuen) - 3:16
12. "There is a Time" (Mitchell Jayne, Rodney Dillard) - 3:31
13. "Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Glory, Glory)" (A. P. Carter, Taj Mahal) - 4:39
14. "Farther Along" (Traditional) - 1:10

Personnel

• Jeff Hanna - Lead & harmony vocal, guitar, mandolin, National slide guitar, washboard
• Jimmy Ibbotson - Lead & harmony vocal, snare, percussion box, guitar, bouzouki, drum box, kick drum, porch board
• Bob Carpenter - Harmony vocal, accordion
• Jimmie Fadden - Harmonica, snare, harmony vocal
• John McEuen
  John McEuen
  John McEuen , is an American folk musician and entertainer. He was one of the earliest members of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. He played with the band from 1966 to 1986, and returned in 2001.The group prior to that 'dissolved' a few times briefly, but none as long as in 1968, right after spending 4...
  
   - Banjo, mandolin, frailing banjo, finger style lead guitar, harmony vocal

• Del McCoury
  Del McCoury
  Delano Floyd McCoury is an American bluegrass musician. As leader of the Del McCoury Band, he plays guitar and sings lead vocals along with his two sons, Ronnie McCoury and Rob McCoury, who play mandolin and banjo respectively...
  
   - Lead vocal, guitar
• Doc Watson
  Doc Watson
  Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. He has won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's flatpicking skills and knowledge of traditional American music are highly regarded...
  
   - Lead Vocal, guitar
• Randy Scruggs
  Randy Scruggs
  Randy Scruggs is a music producer, songwriter and guitarist. He had his first recording at the age of 13...
  
   - Lead vocal, guitar, banjo, mandolin
• Jimmy Martin - Lead vocal, guitar
• Iris DeMent - Lead vocal, guitar
• June Carter Cash
  June Carter Cash
  Valerie June Carter Cash was an American singer, dancer, songwriter, actress, comedienne and author who was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash...
  
   - Lead vocal, Autoharp
• Sam Bush - Lead vocal, mandolin
• Dwight Yoakam
  Dwight Yoakam
  Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music...
  
   - Lead Vocal, guitar
• Jaime Hanna - Lead vocal, guitar, sticks
• Jonathan McEuen - Lead vocal, guitar
• Willie Nelson
  Willie Nelson
  Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...
  
   - Lead vocal, guitar
• Matraca Berg - Lead vocal, harmony vocal, guitar
• Tom Petty
  Tom Petty
  Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T...
  
   - Lead vocal, guitar
• Pat Enright - Lead vocal, guitar
• Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...
  
   - Lead Vocal, guitar, harmony vocal
• Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
  
   - Lead vocal, guitar
• Taj Mahal
  Taj Mahal (musician)
  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He incorporates elements of world music into his music...
  
   - Lead vocal, Archtop guitar
• Alison Krauss
  Alison Krauss
  Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...
  
   - Lead vocal, fiddle
• Vince Gill
  Vince Gill
  Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
  
   - Lead vocal, guitar
• Rodney Dillard - Lead vocals, guitar

• Robbie McCoury - Banjo
• Ronnie McCoury - Mandolin
• Glen Duncan - Fiddle
• Byron House - Upright Bass
• Richard Watson - Guitar
• Josh Graves - Dobro
• Ray Martin - Harmony vocal, mandolin
• David Nance - Harmony vocal, dobro
• Kevin Grantt - Upright Bass
• Earl Scruggs
  Earl Scruggs
  Earl Eugene Scruggs is an American musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a 3-finger banjo-picking style that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music...
  
   - Guitar
• Dan Dugmore - Dobro
• Glenn Worf - Upright Bass
• Mickey Raphael
  Mickey Raphael
  Michael Siegfried "Mickey" Raphael is a professional harmonica player, best known for his work with Willie Nelson. He has recorded with Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Elton John, Mötley Crüe, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Chesney, U2 and Neil Young.Raphael's style is mostly second...
  
   - Harmonica
• David Jackson - Upright Bass
• Alan O'Brant - Banjo
• Stuart Duncan - Fiddle
• Mike Compton - Mandolin
• Dennis Crouch - upright bass
• Vassar Clements
  Vassar Clements
  Vassar Clements was a Grammy Award- winning American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and bluegrass along with roots also in country and other musical...
  
  - Fiddle
• Jerry Douglas - Dobro
• Barry Bales - Upright bass
• Tony Rice - Lead guitar

Chart performance