Tape 1: Old-Time Mountain
Music and Ballads
SIDE ONE:
"Bear Dance Song" (trad., Cherokee): Walker Calhoun, Big Cove, NC, recorded live, October 1998, Third Annual Appalachian Heritage Festival, Shepherd College (festival archives)
"Barbara Allen" (trad.): Emmy Rossum, Soundtrack from the Motion Picture Songcatcher, 2000.
"Barbara Allen" (trad.): Emmylou Harris. Soundtrack from the Motion Picture Songcatcher, 2000.
"Old Joe Clark" (trad.): George Landers, field recording in Madison County, NC, 1967 (Close to Home)
"Pretty Fair Damsel" (trad.): Tom Ashley, field recording in Shouns, TN, 1961 (Close to Home)
"Stole and Sold" (trad.): Ginny Hawker, Tanner, WV, recorded live, October 1997, Appalachian Heritage Festival (AHF) (all AHF recordings were recorded at Shepherd College and are collected in festival archives) -- abolitionist anthem
"Jimmy Johnson" (trad.): Burl Hammons, fiddle; Maggie Hammons Parker, beating sticks; field recording in Stillwell, WV, 1972 (The Hammons Family)
“Shaking Down the Acorns” (trad.): Hammons family tune performed by WV band Gandydancer, 2000. (Gandydancer)
“Muskrat” (trad.): Jim Costa, WV, recorded live, Appalachian Heritage Festival (Festival archives)
"Pretty Polly" (trad): Jean Ritchie, Viper, KY, recorded live, Appalachian Heritage Festival (Festival archives)
“O Sing to Me of Heaven” (trad. hymn): Ginny Hawker and Kay Justice, recorded 1993. (Come All You Tenderhearted)—beautiful Primitive Baptist hymn.
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"Early, Early in the Spring" (trad.): Phil and Ann Case, Kettering, OH, recorded 1996 (In the Springtime of Life)
"Trail of Tears Song" (trad.): Walker Calhoun, recorded live, October 1998 (AHF)
"In the Sweet Bye and Bye" (trad.): Elizabeth Cotten, Maryland, recorded 1952 (Close to Home)
“John Henry” (trad.): Lesley Riddle, Burnsville, NC, field recording 1965 (Close to Home)
"Blackberry Blossom" (trad.): Sherman Lawson, field recording, Switzer, WV, 1964 (Close to Home)
“Joe Bones” (trad.): Gandydancer (Gandydancer)
“Your Lone Journey”: Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz
“Birdy”: Patty Looman, Star City, WV, 1992. (Lest We Forget)
“No Never Alone”: Melvin Wine and Friends recorded live at the WV State Folk Festival in Glenville, WV. (Lest We Forget)
"Old Bangum/Wild Hog in the Woods" (trad.): Diane Jones (Maryland) and Hubie King (Washington, DC), recorded 1996 (There Are No Rules)
"He Said If You Love Me, Feed My Sheep" (unknown): Stancer Quartet, recorded from WBBI radio, Abingdon, VA, 1967 (Close to Home)
"Three Nights Drunk" (trad.): Blue Ridge Buddies (Close to Home)
"In the Pines" (trad.): The Louvin Brothers, 1956 (Tragic Songs)
“Blue Yodel #6”: Jimmie Rodgers.
“Singe Girl, Married Girl”: The Carter Family.
“Wildwood Flower”: The Carter Family.
"Johnson Boys" (trad.): Whitetop Mountain Band, southwest VA/northeast NC, recorded live, May/June 1991, Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival, Whitesburg, KY (Seedtime)
“Little Birdie” (trad.): The Stanley Brothers. (Rich-R-Tone Recordings)
“Molly and Tenbrooks” (trad.): Bill Monroe (Bean Blossom)
“Uncle Penn” (Bill Monroe): Bill Monroe (Bean Blossom)
“Going Back to Old Kentucky” (Bill Monroe): Black Mountain Bluegrass Boys (Festival archives)
“Angel Band” (trad.): Stanley Brothers. (O Brother Where Art Thou?)
“Comin’ Down from God” (Molly O’Day): Carol Elizabeth Jones, Hazel Dickens, and Ginny Hawker (Heart of a Singer)
“Big Boss Man”: John Cephas and Phil Wiggins, recorded live at the Appalachian Heritage Festival in Shepherdstown, WV (Festival archives)
"Piney Mountain" (Craig Johnson): Gandydancer (Gandydancer)
“Barbara Allen” (trad.): The Samples Brothers (Samples Brothers)
“When I Stop Dreaming” (Louvin): The Louvin Brothers
“On the Rock Where Moses Stood” (A.P. Carter): Ginny Hawker and Kay Justice (Bristol)
“Working Girl Blues”: Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (Hazel and Alice)
“The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore”: Jean Richie, recorded live at the Appalachian Heritage Festival in Shepherdstown, WV (Festival archives)
“Jealous Heart”: Ginny Hawker, Carol Elizabeth Jones and Hazel Dickens (Heart of a Singer)
”Which Side Are You On?” (Reese): Florence Reese
(They’ll Never Keep Us Down)
“They’ll Never Keep Us Down” (Dickens): Hazel Dickens (A Few Old Memories)
“West Virginia, My Home” (Dickens): Hazel Dickens (A Few Old Memories)
“Spirit Bend Close to Me”: John Lilly (Broken Moon)
Cuts are taken from
the following recordings:
Bill Monroe's Bean Blossom, Bill Monroe (MCA, 1973)
Bristol: A Tribute to Music of the Original Carter Family, Ginny Hawker and Kay Justice (Copper Creek, 1999)
Broken Moon, John Lilly (Lilly, 2000)
Close to Home: Old Time Music from Mike Seeger's Collection, 1952-1967, Ed. Mike Seeger (Smithsonian/Folkways, 1997)
Come All You Tenderhearted: Traditional Southern Singing, Ginny Hawker and Kay Justice (JuneAppal, 1993)
The Family Reunion, Ginny Hawker, Ben Hawker, and Heidi Christopher (Jimmy Martin Productions, 1992)
A Few Old Memories, Hazel Dickens (Rounder 19???)
The Hammons Family: A Study of a West Virginia Family's Traditions, Ed. Carl Fleischhauer and Alan Jabbour (Archive of Folk Song, Library of Congress, 1973)
Hazel Dickens and Alice, Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (Rounder 1998)
Heart of a Singer, Hazel Dickens, Ginny Hawker, and Carol Elizabeth Jones (Rounder, 1998)
Lest We Forget: The West Virginia State Folk Festival Sampler, various artists (WV State Folk Festival, 199?)
Mountain Heritage: The West Virginia State Folk Festival, 1995 Sampler, various artists (WV State Folk Festival, 1995)
O, Brother, Where Art Thou?, various artists, (Mercury Records, 2000)
Songcatcher: Music
from the Motion Picture,
The Springtime of Life, Phil and Ann Case (Dry Run, 1996)
They'll Never Keep Us Down: Women's Coal Mining Songs, various artists (Rounder, year unknown)
"There Are No Rules!": Old Time Banjo Songs and Tunes, Hubie King and Diane Jones (independently produced, 1996)
Tragic Songs of Life, The Louvin Brothers (1956)