Classic Mountain Songs From Smithsonian Folkways

Locations
Call Number: CD Folk Classic 2002
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 3rd Floor, CDs 2-week checkout	CD Folk Classic 2002	2-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 3rd Floor, CDs 2-week checkout	CD Folk Classic 2002	2-week checkout	On Shelf

Folk music from North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, including "old-time fiddle and banjo pieces, early bluegrass, [and] traditional ballads, with a special emphasis on Appalachian vocal traditions"--Container verso.
Selections originally released 1958-1997.
Compact disc.
Program notes by Jeff Place, including bibliography, (25 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
Omie Wise / Doug Wallin (3:03) -- Sugar baby / Dock Boggs (2:50) -- I am a poor pilgrim of sorrow / Indian Bottom Association (5:24) -- Sixteen tons / George Davis (Merle Travis) (3:05) -- John Henry / Lesley Riddle (2:25) -- Lost Indian / Marion Sumner (0:51) -- Southbound / Doc and Merle Watson (2:39) -- High on a mountain / Ola Belle Reed (Alex Campbell) (3:02) -- Coal Creek march / Pete Steele (1:23) -- Coal miner blues / Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (2:42) -- Railroad blues / Sam McGee (2:45) -- Cuckoo bird / Clarence Ashley (2:33) -- Conversation with Death ; Oh, Death / Berzilla Wallin (5:03) -- Lone prairie / Wade Ward (0:52) -- Rain and snow / Dillard Chandler (2:23) -- Mole in the ground / Bascom Lamar Lunsford (3:19) -- Moonshiner / Roscoe Holcomb (1:59) -- Wildwood flower / Kilby Snow (1:23) -- Barbry Ellen / Jean Ritchie (5:01) -- Daniel prayed / Watson, Price, and Howard (G.T. Speer) (2:54) -- Wreck of the Number Nine / Pop Stoneman (2:48) -- Red Jacket Mine explosion / Phipps Family (4:00) -- Kingdom come / Norman Edmonds (2:02) -- Amazing grace / Horton Barker (4:16).

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Straight from the Source submitted by Meginator on July 1, 2020, 7:25pm These recordings are often very simple, capturing single voices accompanied by minimal instrumentation, yet they get at the heart of folk traditions from the U.S.’s eastern mountainous regions. Listening to this album feels like stepping into a time capsule, with the music drawing on several musical legacies and the lyrics telling of timeless concerns filtered through the language and experiences of a different era. This is a great change of pace and a lovely introduction to working-class music from the early 20th century.