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Black Appalachia : string bands, songsters and hoedowns.

Other author/creatorLomax, Alan, 1915-2002.
Other author/creatorArchive of American Folk Song.
Format Audio (CD) and Musical Sound Recording
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Rounder, ℗1999.
Description1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject(s)
Portion of title String bands, songsters and hoedowns
Series Alan Lomax collection
Deep river of song. ^A471617
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).
General noteIncludes some previously unreleased material.
General noteCompact disc.
General noteProgram notes by Stephen Wade and song texts ([32] p. : ports.) inserted in container.
Performer Various performers.
Date/time/place of a event noteField recordings made for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, by Alan Lomax and others, 1933-1946.
UPC 011661182325
Publisher number11661-1823-2 Rounder
Publisher number1823 Rounder

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