Cannonball Blues - Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie

It wouldn’t be a true American Guitar Album without some influence from Maybelle Carter and the original Carter Family. The first melody, one of the hundreds they recorded between 1927 and 1941, is an American folk/blues standard with many identities, including “Railroad Bill,” “Solid Gone,” “White House Blues” and no doubt many others. The second comes from, and is sometimes attributed to, another great lady of American folk guitar and the composer of “Freight Train,” Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten (although I first heard it played by that legendary folk group the Grateful Dead).