Across the Amerikee: Showpieces from Coal Camp to Cattle Trail

Grassroots singers and players throughout the United States have long cultivated their own varieties of recital music. A simple dance tune transforms into a concert masterpiece; a personal plaint becomes emblematic of an era. With banjo and occasional guitar, Stephen Wade explores this music made for music’s sake. His selections draw from Southern sources as well as Northern interpreters, centering on lyric folksong and old-time instrumentals transmitted, as one of its older players memorably said, “across the Amerikee.” 62 minutes, 44-page booklet with extensive notes.

Track Listing

101	Wild Horse	Stephen Wade	01:31
102	Come on Buddie, Don’t You Want to Go	Stephen Wade	02:40
103	Chesley Chancey’s Cumberland Gap	Stephen Wade	02:03
104	Swing and Turn, Jubilee	Stephen Wade	03:57
105	Fly around My Pretty Little Miss	Stephen Wade	01:50
106	Diamond Joe	Stephen Wade	03:34
107	Puncheon Camps	Stephen Wade	00:57
108	Hard Head Hardy	Stephen Wade	04:50
109	KC Whistle	Stephen Wade	02:38
110	Willie Moore	Stephen Wade	03:56
111	Uncle Dave’s Fandango	Stephen Wade	02:07
112	Goodbye, Old Paint	Stephen Wade	04:17
113	Tom Paley’s John Henry	Stephen Wade	02:01
114	Trouble at the Coal Creek Mines	Stephen Wade	05:20
115	Gray Eagle	Stephen Wade	02:19
116	Lost John	Stephen Wade	02:22
117	Shortenin’ Bread	Stephen Wade	01:53
118	Reno Factory / Brown Skin Blues	Stephen Wade	03:55
119	Sourwood Mountain	Stephen Wade	04:02
120	In the Pines	Stephen Wade	04:04
121	Cherry Blossom Waltz	Stephen Wade	02:08