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Close to Home: Old Time Music from Mike Seeger's Collection 1952-1967

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Close to Home: Old Time Music from Mike Seeger's Collection 1952-1967 In the 1950's and sixties musician-collector Mike Seeger, inspired by the great folksong collectors of the 1930's, visited traditional musicians of the rural South. This is his handpicked selection of the recordings made during those visits. Included in the 38 selections are previously unreleased recordings by the well-known Sara & Maybelle Carter, Arthur Smith, Elizabeth Cotten, and Dock Boggs, as well as treasures by lesser-known artists. The enclosed booklet contains photographs and notes on the performance, which include virtuoso fiddle, banjo, and guitar music, unaccompanied ballad singing, and a story-teller entertaining his buddies in a fiddler's convention parking lot.

Track Listing

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101
Elizabeth Cotten
01:24
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102
Will Adam
02:41
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103
J.C. "Cleve" Sutphin
02:01
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104
V.L. Sutphin
01:16
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105
V.L. Sutphin and J.C. "Cleve" Sutphin
01:45
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106
V.L. and Cleve Sutphin
01:30
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107
J.J. Neece
03:24
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108
J.J. Neece, J.C. "Cleve" Sutphin and V.L. Sutphin
02:16
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109
Louise Foreacre
00:51
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110
Kilby Snow
02:19
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111
Ernest V. Stoneman and Hattie Stoneman
00:53
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112
Elizabeth White and Gideon Craig
01:42
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113
Lesley Riddle
02:26
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114
Clarence Ashley
02:29
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115
Pearly "Grandma" Davis
01:23
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116
Pearly "Grandma" Davis and Oliver Davis
02:13
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117
A.L. Hall
02:12
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118
Wade Ward
01:36
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119
Wade Ward
01:23
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120
Edsel Martin and Bill McElreath
01:43
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121
Bill and Jean Davis
01:11
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122
The Blue Ridge Buddies with E.C. and Orna Ball
02:36
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123
The Blue Ridge Buddies with E.C. and Orna Ball
01:44
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124
Snuffy Jenkins and Ira Dimmery
00:59
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125
The McGee Brothers and "Fiddlin'" Arthur Smith
02:21
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126
Clyde Lewis
04:52
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127
Lost John Ray and Walt Koken
00:53
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128
Eck Robertson and the New Lost City Ramblers
03:02
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129
Sherman Lawson
02:01
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130
Emmett Cole
00:59
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131
George Landers
00:50
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132
Dock Boggs
02:41
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133
Archie Sturgill
01:47
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134
Kate Peters Sturgill
03:09
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135
Scott Boatright
02:19
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136
Sara Carter Bayes and Maybelle Carter
02:38
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137
The Stancer Quartet
02:56
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138
Clarence Ferrill
01:32