A leafy album covers a plethora of old photographs, frequent mention of a hoodoo-working woman known as Aunt Caroline Dye and a collection of songs re-recorded by a group of talented musicians looking to keep the old sounds of the Tennessee hills and deep, deep south alive.

Gritty delta blues and primitive hill music, mainly from the 1920s and 1930s, is performed by a semi-supergroup due to special guest appearances that include Mississippi-born Jimbo Mathus of Squirrel Nut Zippers and the Black Crowes’ Luther Dickinson. Jake Leg Stompers resurrect recordings by a variety of artists including Blind Blake, Otha Turner, Charlie Burse and his Memphis Mudcats and more. They occasionally tack on some additional lyrics but still preserve the bare-bones scratching and plucking of the guitars, the harmonica’s thick vibrations and the brassy stomp of the tuba—sounds that resonated from hot porches at the end of long work days.

The band savors the flavor of the music and mostly does it justice, employing expressive vocals often in call-and-response, occasional vaudeville-inspired, theatric-style, rackety percussion and lots of splintered vocals, like in Julius Daniels’ “99 Year Blues.”

“That’ll Never Happen No More” implements a bluesy scat and a bayou flavor with the use of strings, while “Hard Time Killin’ Floor” by Skip James is a dark, gypsy lament sung in female vocals, and “Linin’ Track” is a rolling march while “K.C. Moan” ambles like a slow-moving riverboat. The 14-track album has variety, and the Stompers execute each song well, showing us the beauty in the rustic and untrained nature of century-old tunes.