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Classic Old-Time Music from Smithsonian Folkways

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Classic Old-Time Music from Smithsonian Folkways This collection of old-time social and instrumental string-band music spotlights instrumental prowess. Old-time music features playing styles that pre-date bluegrass, emerging from the string band tradition stretching back to the early years of United States history. Both African-American and Anglo-American ingredients are at its core, the banjo having African origins, the fiddle European. Some of the most revered sources of old-time roots music—Dock Boggs, Roscoe Holcomb, Wade Ward, Tommy Jarrell, and more—are heard playing in their original styles. The Grateful Dead's cover of "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" and Bob Dylan's rendition of Clarence Ashley's "Little Sadie" clearly attest to the continuing influence of these songs. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place.

Track Listing

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The Iron Mountain String Band
03:35
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102
The New Lost City Ramblers
02:57
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103
Dock Boggs
03:52
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104
Clarence Ashley
02:20
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105
Frank Bode and Tommy Jarrell
02:59
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106
Clark Kessinger
03:07
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107
The New Lost City Ramblers
03:05
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108
Maybelle Carter and Sara Carter Bayes
02:37
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109
Doc Watson and Fred Price
01:42
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110
Sam and Kirk McGee
03:03
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111
Roscoe Holcomb
02:18
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112
Wade Ward
01:08
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113
David, Bill and Billie Ray Johnson
02:25
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114
Lee Sexton
02:13
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115
Mike Seeger
01:29
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116
J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers
02:15
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117
George Pegram
02:18
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118
Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers
01:49
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119
John W. Summers
03:12
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120
Old Reliable String Band
02:10
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121
The Spare Change Boys
02:53
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122
Joe and Tommy Thompson
02:15
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123
Red Clay Ramblers with Al McCanless
01:27
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124
Andy Cahan, Lisa Ornstein and Laura Fishleder
01:46
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125
Sam and Kirk McGee
02:26
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126
Gaither Carlton
02:07
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127
Gordon Tanner, Joe Miller, and John Patterson
02:38
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128
Etta Baker and Cora Phillips
01:51
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129
The New Lost City Ramblers
01:35