From 1961 to 1965, New York City's trailblazing Friends of Old Time Music presented 14 concerts that brought dozens of legendary traditional musicians before city audiences for the first time. This "folk arrival" changed the course of American folk music, expanding the vision of the Folk Song Revival and leaving an indelible mark on the musical landscape. For Friends of Old Time Music, Peter K. Siegel, who personally recorded most of the concerts, handpicked 55 tracks from the original master tapes. They include the first concert appearances by Doc Watson, Roscoe Holcomb, and Joseph Spence, and the triumphant return visits to New York by Dock Boggs and Mississippi John Hurt, who had made classic recordings in the city during the 1920s.

1. Doc and Arnold Watson - I'm Troubled
2. Dock Boggs - The Country Blues
   
3. Fred McDowell - Going Down to the River
4. Roscoe Holcomb - East Virginia Blues
5. Maybelle Carter - The Storms are on the Ocean
   
6. The Stanley Brothers - The Dream of the Miner's Child
   
7. Hobart Smith - Soldier's Joy
   
8. Mississippi John Hurt - Coffee Blues
   
9. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - Live and Let Live
   
10. The Watson Family - Lonely Tombs
    
11. Jesse Fuller - Rockin' Boogie
    
12. Gaither Carlton and Doc Watson - Brown's Dream
    
13. Dock Boggs - Down South Blues
    
14. Sam McGee - Knoxville Blues
    
15. The Stanley Brothers - Have a Feast Here Tonight
    
16. John Davis and the Georgia Sea Island Singers - Riley
    
17. Jesse Fuller - Buck and Wing
    
18. Arthur Smith - Hell Among the Yearlings
19. The Greenbriar Boys - Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
    
20. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - The Brakeman's Blues
    
21. Maybelle Carter - Foggy Mountain Top
22. Doc Watson - Hicks' Farewell
    
23. The New Lost City Ramblers - Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel
    
24. Fred McDowell - Write Me a Few of Your Lines
    
25. Joseph Spence - Bimini Gal
    
26. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - Shady Grove
    
27. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - Grey Eagle
    
28. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - Walkin' the Dog
    
29. Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues
30. Doc and Arnold Watson - Short Life of Trouble
    
31. Roscoe Holcomb - John Henry
    
32. Stanley Thompson - Kneelin' Down Inside the Gate
    
33. McKinley Peebles - Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt
    
34. Maybelle Carter - Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow
    
35. The Stanley Brothers and their Clinch
36. Mountain Boys - Mansions for Me
    
37. Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers - Before This Time Another Year
38. Mississippi John Hurt - My Creole Belle
39. Jesse Fuller - "Guitar Lesson"
    
40. Jesse Fuller - Cincinnati Blues
    
41. Dock Boggs - Poor Boy in Jail
    
42. Maybelle Carter - He's Solid Gone
    
43. The Clarence Ashley Group - Maggie Walker Blues
    
44. Ed Young and Emma Ramsay - Chevrolet
45. Roscoe Holcomb - Rising Sun Blues
    
46. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - Lord, Build Me a Cabin in Glory
    
47. Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie and Albert
48. The Stanley Brothers - Hard Times
    
49. Horton Barker - The Miller's Will
    
50. Clarence Ashley - The Coo Coo Bird
    
51. Gaither Carlton and Doc Watson - Double File
    
52. Annie Bird - The Wandering Boy
    
53. Jesse Fuller - Stranger Blues
    
54. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - I Saw the Light
    
55. Maybelle Carter - Sugar Hill
    
56. The Clarence Ashley Group - Amazing Grace