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Classic Old-Time Music from Smithsonian Folkways

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Classic Old-Time Music from Smithsonian Folkways
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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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Sugar Hill The Iron Mountain String Band 3:35
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Bill Morgan and His Gal (My Name is Morgan But It Ain't J.P.) The New Lost City Ramblers 2:57
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Country Blues Dock Boggs 3:52
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Little Sadie Clarence Ashley 2:20
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Susannah Gal (Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss) Frank Bode and Tommy Jarrell 2:59
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Wednesday Night Waltz Clark Kessinger 3:07
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Cyclone of Rye Cove The New Lost City Ramblers 3:05
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108
I'm Leaving You This Lonesome Song Maybelle Carter and Sara Carter Bayes 2:37
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Carroll County Blues Doc Watson and Fred Price 1:42
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Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Sam and Kirk McGee 3:03
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Trouble in Mind Roscoe Holcomb 2:18
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Chilly Winds Wade Ward 1:08
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Going Down the Road Feeling Bad David, Bill and Billie Ray Johnson 2:25
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114
Pretty Polly Lee Sexton 2:13
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115
Bonaparte's Retreat Mike Seeger 1:29
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116
Concord Rag J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers 2:15
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117
John Henry George Pegram 2:18
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Bowling Green Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers 1:49
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Fine Times in Our House John W. Summers 3:12
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Streets of Glory (Welcome Table) Old Reliable String Band 2:10
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Policeman (This Mornin', this Evenin', so Soon) The Spare Change Boys 2:53
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Love Somebody (Soldier's Joy) Joe and Tommy Thompson 2:15
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House of David Blues Red Clay Ramblers with Al McCanless 1:27
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Ship in the Clouds Andy Cahan, Lisa Ornstein and Laura Fishleder 1:46
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Late Last Night Sam and Kirk McGee 2:26
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Look Down That Lonesome Road Gaither Carlton 2:07
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Down Yonder Gordon Tanner, Joe Miller, and John Patterson 2:38
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Jaybird March Etta Baker and Cora Phillips 1:51
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John Brown's Dream The New Lost City Ramblers 1:35

Album Info

Catalog Number

SFW40093

Year(s) Released

2003

Label/Collection

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Series

Classic Series

Genre(s)

American Folk; Old Time

Country(s)

United States

Instrument(s)

Autoharp; Banjo; Banjo-guitar; Bass; Dulcimer; Fiddle; Guitar; Vocals

Language(s)

English

Credit(s)

Communication Visual - Designer
 Jeff Place - Compiler, Liner Notes
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