Skip to main content

Hand-Me-Down Music: Old Songs, Old Friends, Vol. 2: Traditional Music of Union County, North Carolina

Various Artists
Hand-Me-Down Music: Old Songs, Old Friends, Vol. 2: Traditional Music of Union County, North Carolina The second of two recordings in the Hand Me Down Music series, this collection of traditional folk music is performed by local North Carolina musicians and singers who learned the songs and lyrics from previous generations. The collection includes both secular and religious songs—and one song, “Amazing Grace,” Sung both ways. The first version is performed by Horace Helms and Shady Grove Partners as a brief bluegrass rendition, and the second by the CJ Evans Gospel Choir from the Nice Grove Baptist Church as a hymn.

Track Listing

icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
101
Hambone Donald Crowder 02:19
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
102
Little Red Rooster Willie Hamilton 02:37
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
103
Black Cat Bone Willie Hamilton 02:50
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
104
Barbara Allen Seena Helms 03:23
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
105
Ground Hog Seena Helms 00:45
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
106
Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot? Horace Helms and Shady Grove Partners 01:25
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
107
George Collins Henry Griffin 01:59
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
108
Dancing Girl Bascom Traywick and George Griffin 01:42
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
109
Rock-A-My Soul Taylor Sisters 01:20
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
110
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say Bishop Bowen and Combined Gospel Choirs 04:54
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
201
Old Gray Beard A-Flappin' Otis High 00:55
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
202
Watermelon on the Vine Roy Pope and Carolina Homeboys 02:48
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
203
Hard Times Seena Helms 01:25
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
204
Roll, Jordan, Roll Elizabeth Bivens 02:37
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
205
Somebody's Gone (That Was Here Last Year) Elizabeth Bivens 01:21
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
206
Go Tell It on the Mountain Elizabeth Bivens 01:44
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
207
Climbing up the Mountain Taylor Sisters 01:14
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
208
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Taylor Sisters 02:36
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
209
City on a Hill Roy Pope and the Carolina Homeboys 03:05
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
210
Amazing Grace (1) Horace Helms and Shady Grove Partners 01:17
icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button
211
Amazing Grace (2) C.J. Evans Gospel Choir of Nicey Grove Baptist Church 04:05