Most of the selections on this CD were popular during the years before and after the period that the Marathon Motor Works was manufacturing automobiles in Nashville, Tennessee from 1910 to 1914, The pop and country tunes recorded on the CD became great ragtime, country and popular hits that ushered in the days when Nashville was considered tops in the recording industry. NEAR YOU was Nashville's first GOLD record followed by DOWN YONDER Nashville's first instrumental GOLD. And of course JON Weaver III included a selection of his own ragtime compositions to reflect the history, times and era, as well as his expertise in"Ragtime Piano."