American Epic represents a 10-year odyssey undertaken by director Bernard MacMahon and producers Allison McGourty and Duke Erikson, and audio engineer Nicholas Bergh that involved tracking down countless long forgotten musicians, restoring the music that they recorded and reassembling the technology that created it. Along the way they brought some of the most important figures in contemporary culture to help them on their quest. Executive Producers Jack White, T Bone Burnett and Robert Redford have lent their support to what Redford calls "America's greatest untold story."
In addition to American Epic: The Sessions soundtrack, Third Man Records is slated to release 180 gram 12" audiophile vinyl versions of American Epic: The Carter Family, American Epic: Memphis Jug Band, American Epic: Mississippi John Hurt, American Epic: Blind Willie Johnson and American Epic: Lead Belly plus thematic collections including American Epic: Blues and American Epic: Country.
Early champions of Country Music - The Carter Family, Uncle Dave Macon, the Massey Family, Jimmie Rodgers and many more - have been painstakingly remastered using a mix of analog and digital technology for a hybrid sound that is simultaneously contemporary, immediate but still completely true-to-form. Single LP with single pocket tip-on jacket with soft touch finish.
- Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow by The Carter Family
- If the River Was Whiskey by Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers
- The Coo-Coo BirD by Clarence Ashley
- Waiting For A Train by Jimmie Rodgers
- Henry Lee by Dick Justice
- Sail Away Ladies by Uncle Dave Macon and His Fruit Jar Drinkers
- I Wish I Was A Mole in the Ground by Bascom Lamar Lundsford
- Stackalee by Frank Hutchison
- Peg and Awl by Carolina Tar Heels
- Blues in A Bottle by Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
- Ladies On the Steamboat by Burnett and Rutherford
- Country Blues by Dock Boggs
- Brown Skin Gal (Down the Lane) by Massey Family
- I Am Bound For The Promised Land by Alfred G. Karnes
- I Get My Whiskey From Rockingham by Earl Johnson and His Clodhoppers
- The Lost Child by Stripling Brothers
