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The Successor To The Phenomenally Successful Down The Old Plank Road, This Mixed-Bag Collection Of Folk Perennials And Newer Material Features The Same Cast As The Former Album Inmuch Of The Same Folk-Meets-Country Setting. A Welcome Result Of The Hugely Successful O Brother, Where Art Thou? Moviesoundtrack, This Pair Of Albums Brought Together The Chieftains And A Plethora Of Country Artists In A Meeting Of Old And New Worlds, A Physical Manifestation Of The Cultural Cross-Pollination That Has Been Ongoing Between Europe And America For Centuries.
Here, As On The Former Album, Old-Timers Such As Doc Watson, Don Williams, John Prine, And The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Share Equal Time With Such Comparative Newcomers As Allison Moorer And Patty Loveless, Whose Reading Of "Three Little Babes" Is A Highlight. Sadly, Further Down The Old Plank Road Features What Was To Be The Last Performance Of Chieftains Member Derek Bell, Who Died Shortly After The Album Was Completed.
Track listing:
1. The Raggle Taggle Gypsy - with Nickel Creek
2. Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel - with John Hiatt
3. Hick's Farewell - with Alison Moorer
4. Shady Grove - Tim O'Brien
5. The Girl I Left Behind in Tennessee - with John Prine
6. Rosc Catha na Mumhain/Arkansas Traveller/The Wild Irishman - with Jerry Douglas
7. Lambs in the Greenfield - with Emmylou Harris
8. The Moonshiner/I'm a Rambler, I'm a gambler - with Joe Ely
9. Wild Mountain Thyme - with Don Williams
10. Chief O' Neill's Hornpipe -with Chet Atkins
11. Bandit of Love/The Cheatin' Waltz - with Carlene Carter and Sharon Shannon
12. The Squid Jiggin' Ground/Larry O' Gaff - with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
13. Three Little Babes - with Patty Loveless
14. Fisherman's Hornpipe/The Devil's Dream - with Doc Watson
15. Talk About Suffering/Man of the House (Reel) - with Ricky Skaggs
16. The Lily of the West - with Rosanne Cash
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