Black Appalachia : string bands, songsters and hoedowns.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : Rounder, p1999.
Description:1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:English
Series:Deep river of song
The Alan Lomax collection
Alan Lomax collection,
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Format: CD Audio Music recording
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4488605
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Varying Form of Title:String bands, songsters and hoedowns
Other authors / contributors:Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002
Archive of American Folk Song.
Notes:Includes some previously unreleased material.
Compact disc.
Program notes by Stephen Wade and song texts ([32] p. : ports.) inserted in container.
Various performers.
Field recordings made for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, by Alan Lomax and others, 1933-1946.
Standard no.:011661182325
Publisher's no.:11661-1823-2 Rounder
Table of Contents:
  • Cripple Creek (Jimmie Strothers, banjo)
  • Christmas Eve (Murphy Gribble, banjo; John Lusk, fiddle; Albert York, guitar)
  • Washboard rhythm (Theopolis Stokes, washboard)
  • Soldier's joy ; Old Joe (Nashville Washboard Band)
  • Arkansas traveler (Sid Hemphill, fiddle, vocals; Lucius Smith, banjo; Will Head, bass drum; Alec Askew, guitar)
  • Black bayou ; Banty rooster (Blind Pete, fiddle, vocals; George Ryan, guitar)
  • Poontang little, poontang small (Strothers, guitar)
  • Give the fiddler a dram ; Eighth of January (Gribble; Lusk; York)
  • Introduction of band
  • Eighth of January ; Skillet good and greasy (Hemphill; Smith; Head; Askew)
  • Devil's dream (Hemphill, 10-note quills, with snare and bass drums)
  • John Henry (Hemphill; Smith; Head; Askew)
  • Steel-laying holler (John "Black Sampson" Gibson)
  • Pauline (Allen Prothero)
  • Track-lining song (Gibson)
  • New careless love (Sonny Terry, vocals, harmonica)
  • Red Cross store (Brownie McGhee, vocals, guitar; Terry, harmonica)
  • How long blues (McGhee; Lead Belly, vocals, guitar; Terry, vocals, harmonica).