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Black Appalachia : string bands, songsters and hoedowns

Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: CD 1823 | RounderSeries: Alan Lomax collection, Deep river of songPublication details: Rounder, 1999.Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s):
Contents:
1. Cripple Creek / Jimmie Strothers -- 2. Christmas eve / Murphy Gribble; John Lusk & Albert York -- 3. Washboard rhythm / Theopolis Stokes -- 4. Soldier's joy / Nashville Washboard Band -- 5. Old Joe / Nashville Washboard Band -- 6. Arkansas traveler / Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew -- 7. Black bayou / Blind Pete & George Ryan -- 8. Banty rooster / Blind Pete & George Ryan -- 9. Poontang little, poontang small / Jimmy Strothers -- 10. Give the fiddler a dram / Murphy Gribble, John Lusk & Albert York -- 11. Eighth of January / Murphy Gribble, John Lusk & Albert York -- 12. Introduction of band -- 13. The eighth of January / Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew -- 14. Skillet good and greasy / Sid Hemphill -- 15. Devil's dream / Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head, & Alec Askew -- 16. John Henry / Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew -- 17. Steel laying holler / John "Black Sampson" Gibson -- 18. Pauline / Allen Prothero -- 19. Track-lining song / John "Black Sampson" Gibson -- 20. New careless love / Sonny Terry -- 21. The Red Cross store / Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry -- 22. How long blues / Brownie McGhee, Leadbelly & Sonny Terry.

Compact disc.

Ethnographic and historical information plus song texts in booklet.

Musical instruments: guitar, fiddle, banjo; harmonica; bass drum.

1. Cripple Creek / Jimmie Strothers -- 2. Christmas eve / Murphy Gribble; John Lusk & Albert York -- 3. Washboard rhythm / Theopolis Stokes -- 4. Soldier's joy / Nashville Washboard Band -- 5. Old Joe / Nashville Washboard Band -- 6. Arkansas traveler / Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew -- 7. Black bayou / Blind Pete & George Ryan -- 8. Banty rooster / Blind Pete & George Ryan -- 9. Poontang little, poontang small / Jimmy Strothers -- 10. Give the fiddler a dram / Murphy Gribble, John Lusk & Albert York -- 11. Eighth of January / Murphy Gribble, John Lusk & Albert York -- 12. Introduction of band -- 13. The eighth of January / Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew -- 14. Skillet good and greasy / Sid Hemphill -- 15. Devil's dream / Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head, & Alec Askew -- 16. John Henry / Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew -- 17. Steel laying holler / John "Black Sampson" Gibson -- 18. Pauline / Allen Prothero -- 19. Track-lining song / John "Black Sampson" Gibson -- 20. New careless love / Sonny Terry -- 21. The Red Cross store / Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry -- 22. How long blues / Brownie McGhee, Leadbelly & Sonny Terry.

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