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Mountain Music of Kentucky

CD - 1996 CD Folk Mountain 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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Call Number: CD Folk Mountain
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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

Smithsonian/Folkways: SF 40077 (on container: SF CD 40077).
"Contains over 60 minutes of additional, previously unreleased material. Originally compiled, recorded and annotated by John Cohen in 1959 as Folkways [FA] 2317"--Insert p. 36.
Compact discs.
Program notes and photographs by John Cohen (36 p.) inserted in container.
disc 1. Old-age pension blues ; Hook & line ; John Henry ; Pretty Polly ; Old Reuben (Bill Cornett) -- Spring of '65 ; Sally in the garden ; Barbara Allen (J.D. Cornett) -- When we shall meet ; Amazing grace (Old Baptist Church) -- Across the rocky mountain ; Graveyard blues ; Cripple Creek ; True love (Roscoe Holcomb) -- Sally in the garden ; Lost Indian ; Hollow poplar (Marion Sumner) -- Death of the Blue Eagle (George Davis) -- Little birdie ; Lost Indian ; Jaw bone ; Bunkers Hill ; Cacklin' hen ; Julie Ann (Willie Chapman) -- Born in old Kentucky ; Buck Creek girls ; Sweet Willie ; Cluck old hen (Bill Cornett) -- Coney Island ; Baby let your hair roll down ; Wayfaring stranger (Roscoe Holcomb) -- disc 2. Stingy woman ; East Virginia blues ; Single girl ; Black eyed Susie ; Hills of Mexico (Roscoe Holcomb) -- Foreign lander ; Kitty alone ; Young & tender ladies (Martha Hall) -- Charlie's neat ; Cotton-eyed Joe ; Little Sunshine ; Wild Bill Jones (Granville Bowlin) -- Great speckled bird ; Clap & shout ; Cry from the Cross ; Clap & shout & shriek (Holiness Church) -- The Wagoner's lad ; The absentee ; The coo coo (Mr. & Mrs. Sams) -- Marthis Campbell ; Sally Goodin' ; Fiddler a dram ; Fox chase ; Old Joe Clark ; Fire on the mountain ; Ways of the world ; Inch along ; Skip to my lou (James Crase) -- St. Louis blues ; Pretty Polly ; Fly around ; Fox chase (Lee Sexton) -- Ruby ; No letter in the mail ; Fair Miss in the garden ; John Henry ; Rocky Island (Grigsby & Young).
Various performers.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Mountain Music submitted by SBNB on July 18, 2015, 1:39pm I checked this out because I was curious. Two songs in, I was quite sure this wasn't my cup of tea. It kind of grated on my nerves. But if you like this kind of thing, it's probably good.

Great Collection submitted by wrku on May 18, 2016, 10:25am Authentic Kentucky folk music from the amazing Folkways collection. The real deal.