Ballads and Songs of the Blue Ridge Mountains: Persistence and Change

Stemming from a want to preserve the dwindling unique oral traditions of the Blue Ridge Mountain back-country region, Eric Davidson, Paul Newman and Caleb Finch performed field recordings of songs that exemplified the evolution of ballads in the region, creating an anthology of music that characterized the musical mountain traditions. Originating from folk music of the British Isles, many of the songs are performed with little or no instrumental accompaniment. These beautiful archaic folk melodies have retained their roots in the ballad and lament tradition, sung here by both men and women (traditionally ballads were sung only by women) with occasional lively banjo accompaniments.

Track Listing

101	The Hanging of Georgie (Child No. 209)- Sharp 34	Paul Joines	01:34
102	Returning Sweetheart - Sharp 98 - A Pretty Fair Maid Down in the Garden - The Broken Token	Sarah Hawkes	01:54
103	Barbry Allen (Barbara Allen)	Granny Porter and Wade Ward	02:43
104	The Young Men and Maids - Sharp 165 - Silver Dagger	Paul Joines	02:19
105	The Green Willow Tree - Child 286 - Sharp 41 - Golden Vanity	Paul Joines	04:21
106	Ho Lilly Ho - Sharp 65 - Jack Went A-Sailing - Jack Munro	Sarah Hawkes	02:15
107	Walkin' in the Parlor	Kilby Reeves	01:22
108	Little Sparrow - Sharp 118 - Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	Sarah Hawkes	01:50
109	County Jail - Long Lonesome Road	Kilby Reeves	01:50
110	Warfare is A-Raging - Sharp 113	Polly "Aunt Polly" Joines	01:22
111	Pig in a Pen	Spud Gravely and Glen Smith	02:31
112	Roving Ranger - Sharp 179 - Come All Ye Southern Soldiers - The Texas Rangers	Paul Joines	02:52
201	Pretty Polly - Sharp 49 - The Cruel Ship's Carpenter	Ivor Melton, Cullen Galyean, Bobby Harrison	02:09
202	George Allen - Child 85 - Lady Alice - Sharp 25 - Giles Collins	Spud Gravely	01:16
203	Roving Gambler	Hobart and Larry Delp with Joe Kyles	02:28
204	Ten Thousand Miles - 10,000 Miles - Sharp 114 - The True Lover's Farewell	Ruby Vass	03:22
205	1809 - Sharp 76 - Pretty Saro	Glen Neaves	03:12
206	Little Maggie	Ivor Melton, Cullen Galyean, Claudine Lambert	03:36
207	Death of the Lawson Family	Glen Neaves	01:55
208	Lonesome Day	Ruby Vass	02:13
209	Budded Roses - Little Bunch of Roses	Paul Joines and Cliff Evans	02:35