Far in the Mountains, volume 5 is now available on the MT Records website, price £12.00.
Mike Yates at an exhibition of Ghanaian art that he curated earlier this year. (Photo Vicky Silver)
I can hardly believe that more than thirty years have passed since I last recorded any songs or instrumental tunes in the Appalachian Mountains of North America. Over the last couple of decades much of my time has been taken up with the art world. I have collected art works for years. I also write and lecture on tribal art and contemporary studio ceramics and, whenever I am asked, curate art exhibitions. Recently, during a lull in such activity, I found time to listen to the Appalachian recordings that had not made their way onto the 4-volume Musical Traditions set of albums Far in the Mountains. I was rather surprised to discover just how much good material had been left off the albums, and so I set about putting together Far in the Mountains - Volume 5. As I did so, I began to remember just why I had visited Appalachia in the first place. Sometime around 1960 I heard a BBC radio program narrated by the American song collector Alan Lomax, who had recently been visiting the Appalachian Mountains. One recording that Lomax played was of the blind singer Horton Barker. It seemed so poignant when Barker sang the hymn Amazing Grace, with its line "I once was blind, but now can see". Somehow I seemed to instinctively know that one day I would make it to that part of America.
I first flew to America in the summer of 1979, stopping off in New York for a few days before travelling down to Virginia by Greyhound bus. New York was special to me because it was there, in the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), that Picasso's great painting Guernica was then housed. The Museum opened at 10am, but I had arrived just before 9am and was second in the queue. At ten I bought my ticked and rushed upstairs to the room where this masterpiece of 20th century European, actually World, art was exhibited. The painting was displayed on a long wall in a smallish, rectangular-shaped gallery. On the other walls were related paintings which Picasso had made prior to starting work on his major opus. And there were large copies of the photographs that Dora Maar had made when Picasso was working on the painting. It was a truly amazing experience, standing alone in that room for some twenty minutes before anyone else came in. In a way I felt that I had owned Guernica for twenty minutes and that, during that short period of time, it had been my painting. Later I met up with John Cohen in an Indian restaurant in Greenwich Village. Having told him that I had been to MOMA to see Guernica, John said, "Don't tell me. You couldn't get into the room for other people".
Actually, it was John's recent book, The High and Lonesome Sound - The legacy of Roscoe Holcomb (Steidl, Germany, 2012), that made me think about writing this piece. Describing how Roscoe Holcomb's singing had affected him, John says:
1 Old Love Songs and Ballads had been recorded in the community of Sodom Laurel in Madison County, NC, an area visited by Cecil Sharp in 1916 and Cohen's singers were descendants of the singers who gave songs and ballads to Sharp.
I first visited Madison County, NC, in 1980 and it was relatively easy to make it to Sodom Laurel. There was a large highway out from Ashville to Marshall. From then on the roads became narrower and the wooded hillsides started to close in on all sides. When, in 1983, I drove to Doug Wallin's farm I managed to snag the car on some rocks as I drove across a small creek. After half an hour I gave up trying to free the vehicle and set off on foot to find Doug and his mother at home. It had been raining for a few days prior to my visit and Doug had decided to delay planting that year's tobacco crop, because the soil was too wet. I had been told that Doug had a temper and could quickly turn against strangers - he had once punched a would-be collector on the jaw - and so I was rather hesitant to approach his home. Doug, as it turned out, said little to begin with, although his mother was more than happy to tell me what she could about Cecil Sharp's visit. After a while Doug said, "Do you know this song?" before starting to sing his version of The Carlisle Lady. I had not asked him to sing and was surprised, and delighted, to hear him. Once he had finished we talked about the song and Doug seemed happy to be singing something that had "almost certainly died out in England". "What about this one?" he said, before starting into A Bed of Primroses. "Now I may be wrong", he said, "but if memory serves me right, that's a song that Mr Sharp failed to find when he was here." Perhaps it was a test, with Doug wanting to see how I would react to his singing. If so, then I passed, because he not only invited me to stay for lunch but added that if I had "one of those recording machines" then perhaps he would sing some more once we had eaten. After lunch we returned to the stranded car, which we managed to extract from the stream, and I drove Doug back to his home, where we set up the tape recorder.
Did Doug or his singing neighbours sound 'medieval', 'avant-garde', 'Gregorian', 'expressionistic' or 'abstract'? Well, not really. If anything they reminded me of many other singers that I had previously met in England and Scotland, although there were one or two differences in singing styles. One of Cecil Sharp's 1917 observations about the Madison County singers was still valid sixty years later. 'They have one vocal peculiarity, however, which I have never noticed amongst English folk-singers, namely, the habit of dwelling arbitrarily upon certain notes of the melody, generally the weaker accents. This practice, which is almost universal, by disguising the rhythm and breaking up the monotonous regularity of the phrases, produces an effect of improvisation and freedom from rule which is very pleasing'. Another effect that I heard repeatedly among the Sodom Laurel singers was the technique of 'feathering' notes at the end of a line; a technique described by Judith McCulloh as, 'A sudden or forceful raising of the soft palate against the back wall of the throat and/or a sudden closing of the glottis at the very end of a given note, generally accompanied by a rise in pitch'.
The main thing that I did discover about the Sodom Laurel singers was their enthusiasm for their songs and ballads. It reminded me strongly of similar traditions that I had heard within Gypsy and Traveller communities in England and Scotland. As with the Gypsies and Travellers, here was a living tradition, one where singing and music making was an essential part of the community. Everybody knew who the singers and musicians were and everybody seemed to value them.
And I am sure that the same had once applied to other areas of the mountains. Dan Tate of Fancy Gap in Virginia would often talk about all the other singers that had once lived within walking distance to his home. There were certainly plenty of musicians around and ballads such as The House Carpenter, The Jew's Garden and Gypsy Davie were still being sung when I was there. Dan had known a number of local people who had made recordings in the 1920s and '30s, including Ernest Stoneman, members of the Hill Billies, Norman Edmonds, Alex Dunford and the Sweet Brothers. The recordings that these people made were important, mainly because they highlighted the importance of the music within the community. Several singers that I met had picked up songs from similar recordings - Rob Tate's The Lawson Family Murder and Inez Chandler's Daddy Had a Billy Goat had both been learnt from 78rpm recordings, and I seem to recall that Doc Watson picked up quite a few songs and tunes from records.2
It would be wrong of me to say that I was not delighted to hear so many versions of Child ballads being sung in the mountains. Today, we almost have to hide our interest in the ballads that Professor Child assembled in the late 1800s. Nowadays we are told to study complete repertoires and not to emphasise the importance of one type of song/ballad over another. But I am not an academic and so I can simply say that I love hearing these remarkable pieces still being sung by people who valued them as much as myself. Cecil Sharp, who was a bit of a 'twitcher' when it came to the Child ballads, managed to find examples of 45 such ballads during the 52 weeks that he spent in the mountains between 1916 and 1918. In fact he actually found 367 versions of these 45 ballads. I spent far less time in the mountains, but nevertheless managed to record examples of 11 Child ballads, some in more than one version. One ballad that really knocked me out was Eunice Yeatts MacAlexander's version of the ballad that Child called Sir Lionel, though Eunice called it Wild Hog in the Woods.
I wish I could that wild hog see,
And see if he'd take a fight with me.
There he comes through yonders marsh,
He splits his way through oak and ash.
Bangum drew his wooden knife,
To rob that wild hog of his life.
They fought for/four hours of the day,
At length that wild hog stole away.
They followed that wild hog to his den,
And there found the bones of a thousand men.3
Doug Wallin and his uncle Cas Wallin both had a number of fine ballads in their repertoires. As suggested above, many of Professor Child's ballads are quite ancient, so it was rather surprising to find this verse included in Cas's version of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard, which he called Lord Daniel (Child 81).
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Dan Tate had a fine version of The Cruel Sister, which he called The Wind and the Rain. It was a version that ended with the dead girl's hair and bones being used to make a fiddle which, in other versions, then sang out the name of her murderer. This old form of the ballad survived in Scotland with some Traveller singers, though it seems to have died out in England. Dan also had a good version of The Crabfish, a song that dated back to the 17th century, if not earlier. Professor Child certainly knew the piece, though he omitted it from his collection, no doubt because the story would have easily offended Victorian sensibility. The thing that struck me about Dan's set was the fact that he used a tune that was also used for the American song Groundhog. Was this, I wondered, an original tune for The Crabfish? Or had American singers, having lost the British tune, added an American tune to the words? Cecil Sharp was certainly impressed with the Appalachian tunes that he heard, saying, '(The mountaineers) have been so isolated and protected from outside influence that their own music and song have not only been uncorrupted, but also uninfluenced by art music in any way. This is clear enough in the character of the tunes I have collected, nearly all of which are in gapped scales (i.e. scales lacking two or more notes; e.g. the fourth and seventh), which is a more archaic form than that in which they are now being sung in England.'
Did I at any time feel that I had stepped back in time, into an 'olde England'? The answer has to be "no". Just about all the singers and musicians that I met were well aware of what was going on around them in America, although some people were a little confused when it came to present day England. I suspect that the ballad line "He mounted on a lily-white steed" may have led to one or two people asking me if we still rode around on horses in England, and, on one occasion, it was a little disconcerting to be asked whether or not I lived in a castle. I was also surprised when one musician in North Carolina asked me if I had driven to America. It turned out that he had not recognised my hire car's Virginia number plates and so had assumed that they must have been English ones.
One thing that was different from England was the number of instrument players in the mountains. Every settlement seemed to have its own fiddler and the 5-string banjo was still highly popular. In fact many fiddlers could also play the banjo, though not all banjo players could play the fiddle. Like the guitar, both instruments were small and easily portable and dances were being held all over the place when I was there. The fiddle had, originally, been brought to America by early European settlers and much of the repertoire was based on European tunes. On the other hand, the banjo had come to America via the memories of African slaves. It is often said that the 5-string banjo is America's only home-made instrument. This came about with the addition of the fifth string by one Joel Sweeney (1810 - 1860), a black-face minstrel. But, in truth, 5-string banjos predate Sweeney and they are based on West African instruments, such as the xalam or halam, which have a drone string that is played with the thumb. I sometimes wondered if some of the white fiddle/banjo duet players that I met realised just how integrated they were.
During my 1979 trip I took a number of colour photographs that were later used in the Far in the Mountains CDs. Now, thirty-odd years later I find that I cannot remember exactly where some of these pictures were taken. The sleeve photograph to volumes 1 & 2, showing a number of densely wooded ridges, was probably taken somewhere along the Blue Ridge Parkway, while the sleeve photograph to volumes 3 & 4, showing an old farm building, was taken on the plateau between Fancy Gap and Hillsville, close to Dan Tate's home. But I can no longer remember where the picture used for the sleeve on volume 5 was taken, except that it would have been somewhere in Virginia. I can, however, remember that the cover photograph for the volumes 1 & 2 booklet shows the home of fiddle-player Sherman Wimmer's, who played me a lovely version of Forked Deer, which he called Hounds in the Horn; and the old building next to an apple tree that is used for the volume 5 booklet cover stood close to Dan Tate's home. A local artist showed me an oil painting that he made of this building. He told me that when the house began to collapse he would use some of the weathered timber to make a frame for his picture.
The Far in the Mountains series of recordings was issued simply because I wanted to share the music of these remarkable singers and musicians with others. I was so lucky to have been able to make it to America and to have met up with so many fine people. If, at the end of the day, I was financially out of pocket, then it didn't really matter. It was the singing and the music that mattered, and also, of course, all those generous people who so kindly let me into their lives and homes. They enriched my life. And now, through these recordings, they can continue to enrich the lives of so many others.
Michael Yates
Wiltshire, April, 2013
2. For more on the importance of early recordings, see Musical Traditions article MT255 When Cecil Left the Mountains - early recordings of American music. Recordings that Doc Watson learnt from 78rpm records can be heard on Smithsonian Folkways CD The Doc Watson Family CD SF 40012.
3. Eunice Yeatts MacAlexander Far in the Mountains Volume 1, track 23.
4. Cas Wallin Far in the Mountains Volume 3, track 28.
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1. Titles:
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The Arishman and the Squirrel - 2/25
The Arishmen Learning to Talk - 4/22 Baby-O - 1/17. 5/13 Back-Step Cindy - 1/28 Banjo Clog - 3/24 Barbara Allen - 2/29. 3/11 Beano - 1/1. 5/12. 5/13 Beautiful Star of Bethlehem - 5/42 A Bed of Primroses- 3/3 Big Horny and Little Horny - 4/23 Black is the Colour - 4/6. 5/29 Black-Eyed Susie - 4/25 Breaking up Christmas - 5/43 Brother Green - 3/4 Brown's Dream - 4/21 Bugerboo - 1/6 Bull Durham - 5/27 Bully of the Town - 5/41 The Butcher's Boy - 3/12 Camp a Little While in the Wilderness - 3/29 The Carlisle Lady - 3/5 Chilly Winds - 2/5 Christmas Holiday -1/2 Cindy - 1/7. 5/22 Cluck Old Hen - 1/3 Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies - 2/17 Conversation about Cecil Sharp - 4/3 Cotton-Eyed Joe - 4/4 Cripple Creek - 2/4. 5/31 The Cruel Sister - 1/10. 1/26 Cuckle Pea and His Sister - 4/14 Cumberland Gap - 1/18 Daddy Had a Billy Goat - 5/30 Darling Cora - 5/36 The Derby Ram - 3/16. 4/19 Devil in the Strawstack - 4/11 The Devil's Grandmother - 1/11 Dicky Said to Johnny - 5/17 Don't Get Trouble in Mind - 1/14 Down by the Stillhouse - 5/14 Down the Road - 2/26 Eighth of January - 5/9. 5/23 Fair Eleanor and Lord Thomas - 3/15 Fair Ellender and Lord Thomas - 4/16 Fall on my Knees - 2/1 Fire in the Mountains - 1/5. 5/8 Fish on a Hook - 1/8 Fisher's Hornpipe - 5/28 Fortune - 2/14. 5/3 Garry Dawson's Tune - 4/1 Georgia Buck - 1/21 The Girl I Left Behind Me - 2/31 Gold Rush - 2/22 Granny Will Your Dog Bite? - 5/9. 5/23 Granster and Nippy - 4/24 Graveyard Blues - 3/23 Green Mountain Polka - 5/23 Groundhog - 2/24. 5/4 Half-Shaved Nigger - 1/19 Here Goes a Bluebird - 2/27 Hesitation Blues - 4/20 Hog Patch Hill - 2/6 Hold to God's Unchanging Hand - 2/38 Hounds in the Horn - 2/16 The House Carpenter - 3/7 I Know a Pretty Little Girl - 1/41 It Rained, It Mist - 2/3 It's Hard to Love - 1/39 Jack and the King's Chest - 3/10 Jerusalem Mourn - 3/32 John Hardy - 1/33. 1/34 June Apple - 4/3 The Lawson Family Murder - 5/33 The Leaves are Green - 4/6. 5/29 Let her Go, Let her Go - 5/35 Let Me Fall - 4/2 Lightning and Thunder - 1/36 The Lily of the West - 2/33 Little Betty Ann - 4/7 Little Fisherman - 1/37 Little Honey - 4/5 Little Margaret - 2/32 Little Massie Groves - 1/22. 3/28 The Little Mohee - 5/20 The Little Soldier - 4/17 Little Sparrow - 4/8 Little Willie - 3/17 Liza Jane - 3/18 Lonesome Road Blues - 5/32 Lord Bateman - 1/42 Lord Daniel - 1/22. 3/28 |
McKinley 2/19. 3/9
Massa Run Away - 1/12 The Miller's Will - 1/24 Mirandy - 5/17 Mississippi Sawyer - 1/31 Molly Put the Kettle On - 2/2. 5/2 Molly Van - 1/38 Muck on my Heel - 1/38 The Murder of Colonel Sharp - 3/19 My Man Will Be Home Some Old Day -1/4 Nigger Trader Boatman - 2/21 Oh, Come See Me When You Can - 3/1 Oh, Lord, Ellie - 4/9 Old Dan Tucker - 2/8 Old Grey Goose - 1/35 Old Joe Clark - 5/26 Old Mister Rabbit - 2/9 Old Molly Hare - 5/13 Once I Lived in Old Virginia - 2/10 Over the River to Charlie - 1/25 Paddy on the Turnpike - 4/26 Pig in the Pen - 1/15. 2/7. 5/6 Piper's Gap - 2/15 Poor Ellen Smith - 5/5 Poison in a Glass of Wine - 3/13 Polly in the Kitchen - 1/29 Polly Put the Kettle On - 2/2. 5/2 Power in the Blood - 3/25 The Preacher and the Bear - 5/25 The Preacher's Song - 3/31 Pretty Fair Miss All in the Garden - 4/18. 5/21 Pretty Girl Down the Road - 1/15.2/7. 5/6 Pretty Little Girl - 1/27 Red Clay Country - 3/2 Rickett's Hornpipe - 1/13 Riddles - 2/28 Roundtown Gals - 4/12 Roustabout - 1/9 Russian Roulette - 3/26 Sail Away Ladies - 5/18 The Sailor's Song - 2/12 Sally Ann - 1/1. 5/12. 5/13 Sally Gooden - 1/32. 5/16 Salt Creek - 1/20 Say Darling Say - 5/19 Shady Grove - 3/14 Shoot that Turkey Buzzard - 3/6 Shooting Creek - 2/4 Shout Little Lula - 5/34 Silver Bells - 5/40 Snowbird on the Ashbank - 4/15 Soldier's Joy - 5/7 Some Have Father's Gone to Glory - 3/30 Somebody's Tall and Handsome - 2/34 Sourwood Mountain - 2/23. 2/30 Sugar Hill - 2/11 Sweet Sunny South - 1/30 Take a Drink on Me - 2/18 Ten Little Indians - 1/5. 5/8 The Three Little Babes - 1/40 The Time Draws Near - 3/21 Tom Dooley/Dula - 2/37. 3/8 Train on the Island - 4/13. 5/1 Troubles - 5/10 The Truelover's Farewell - 2/35 The Truelover's Warning - 2/36 Turkey in the Straw - 5/15 Under the Double Eagle - 5/37 Up Jumped the Devil - 2/20 Waggoner's Boy - 5/11 Walk Jawbone - 1/8 Walking in the Parlour - 5/24 Western Country - 1/16 Where's the Ox At? - 2/28 Whistling Rufus - 5/38 White Oak Stomp - 3/27 Who's On the Way? - 2/13 Wild Hog in the Woods - 1/23 Wildwood Flower - 5/39 The Wind and the Rain - 1/10. 1/26 The Worrisome Woman - 3/22 The Youthful Warning - 3/20 | |
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2. Performers:
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Allen, Pug
Beano - 1/1 Bull Durham - 5/27 Christmas Holiday - 1/2 Fire in the Mountains - 1/5 Fisher's Hornpipe - 5/28 Gold Rush - 2/22 McKinley - 2/19 Nigger Trader Boatman - 2/2 Old Joe Clark - 5/26 Soldier's Joy - 5/7 Turkey in the Straw - 5/15 Sally Gooden - 5/16 Up Jumped the Devil - 2/ 20 Arwood, Garrett & Norah Barbara Allen - 3/11 The Butcher's Boy - 3/12 Poison in a Glass of Wine - 3/13 Shady Grove - 3/14 Ethel Birchfield The Arishmen Learning to Talk - 4/22 Big Horny and Little Horny - 4/23 Granster and Nippy - 4/24 Boyd, Ted John Hardy - 1/33 Mississippi Sawyer - 1/31 Pig in the Pen - 5/6 Sally Gooden - 1/32 Sweet Sunny South - 1/30 Brown, Paul Red Clay Country - 3/2 Chandler, Inez Daddy Had a Billy Goat - 5/30 The Leaves are Green - 5/29 Little Betty Ann - 4/7 Cole, Calvin Fall on My Knees - 2/1 Molly Put the Kettle On - 2/2 Cole, Viola It Rained, It Mist - 2/3 Connor, Sam Granny Will Your Dog Bite? - 5/9 Massa Run Away - 1/12 Rickett's Hornpipe - 1/13 Ten Little Indians - 5/8 Connor, Sam & Dent Wimmer Don't Get Trouble in Mind - 1/14 Western Country - 1/15 Davis, Walt & Jay C McCool Banjo Clog - 3/24 Bully of the Town - 5/40 Graveyard Blues - 3/23 Power in the Blood - 3/25 Russian Roulette - 3/26 Silver Bells - 5/40 Whistling Rufus - 5/38 White Oak Stomp - 3/26 Wildwood Flower - 39 Under the Double Eagle - 5/37 Flippen, Benton Cotton-Eyed Joe - 4/4 Cripple Creek - 5/31 Lonesome Road Blues - 5/32 Garry Dawson's Tune - 4/1 June Apple - 4/3 Let Me Fall - 4/2 Lonesome Road Blues - 5/32 Hall, Howard Polly in the Kitchen - 1/29 Hicks, Stanley The Arishman and the Squirrel - 2/25 Barbara Allen - 2/29 Down the Road - 2/26 Groundhog - 2/24 Here Goes a Bluebird - 2/27 Riddles - 2/28 Sourwood Mountain - 2/23 & 2/30 Where's the Ox At? - 2/28 Hopson, John Brown's Dream - 4/21 Hopson, Mitchel Shout Little Lula - 5/34 Snowbird on the Ashbank - 4/15 Jarrell, Tommy Devil in the Strawstack - 4/11 Roundtown Gals - 4/12 Sail Away Ladies - 5/18 Say Darling Say - 5/19 Train on the Island - 4/13 Kimble Family Come All You Fair and Tender ladies - 2/17 Troubles - 5/10 MacAlexander, Eunice Yeatts The Cruel Sister - 1/26 I Know a Pretty Little Girl - 1/41 It's Hard to Love - 1/39 Little Massie Groves - 1/22 Lord Bateman - 1/42 The Miller's Will - 1/24 Over the River to Charlie - 1/25 The Preacher and the Bear - 5/25 The Three Little Babes - 1/40 Wild Hog in the Woods - 1/23 Marshall, William Back-Step Cindy - 1/28 Marshall, William & Howard Hall Fortune - 5/3 Polly Put the Kettle On - 5/2 Pretty Little Girl - 1/27 Train on the Island - 5/1 |
Norton, Dellie
Black is the Colour - 4/6 Little Betty Ann - 4/7 Little Honey - 4/5 Little Sparrow - 4/8 Oh, Lord, Ellie - 4/9 The Silkmerchant's Daughter - 4/10 Norton, Morris Dicky Said to Johnny - 5/17 Mirandy - 5/17 Oh, Come See Me When You Can - 3/1 Presnell, Hattie Cuckle Pea and His Sister - 4/14 Jack and the King's Chest - 3/10 Ramsey, Evelyn The Girl I Left Behind - 2/31 The Lily of the West - 2/33 Little Margaret - 2/32 Somebody's Tall and Handsome - 2/34 Tom Dooley - 2/27 The Truelover's Farewell - 2/35 The Truelover's Warning - 2/36 Ramsey, Evelyn & Douston Beautiful Star of Bethlehem - 5/42 Hold to God's Unchanging Hand - 2/38 Sykes, Robert Black-Eyed Susie - 4/25 Paddy on the Turnpike - 4/26 Tate, Dan Bugerboo - 1/6 Cindy - 1/7 The Devil's Grandmother - 1/11 Fish on a Hook - 1/8 Groundhog - 5/4 John Hardy - 1/34 Jawbone - 1/8 Lightning and Thunder - 1/36 Little Fisherman - 1/37 Molly Van - 1/38 Muck on my Heel - 1/38 Old Dan Tucker - 2/8 Old Grey Goose - 1/35 Old Mister Rabbit - 2/9 Once I Lived in Old Virginia - 2/10 Poor Ellen Smith - 5/5 Roustabout - 1/9 The Sailor's Song - 2/12 Sally Ann - 5/12 Sugar Hill - 2/11 Waggoner's Boy - 5/11 Who's on the Way? - 2/13 The Wind and the Rain - 1/10 Tate, Robert L (Rob) Baby-O - 5/13 Down by the Stillhouse - 5/14 Fortune - 2/14 The Lawson Family Murder - 5/33 Old Molly Hare - 5/13 Piper's Gap - 2/15 Sally Ann - 5/13 Wallin, Berzilla Conversation about Cecil Sharp - 3/3 Wallin, Cas Camp a Little While in the Wilderness - 3/29 The Derby Ram - 4/19 Fair Ellender and Lord Thomas - 4/16 Hesitation Blues - 4/20 Jerusalem Mourn - 3/31 The Little Soldier - 4/17 Lord Daniel - 3/28 The Preacher's Song - 3/30 Pretty Fair Miss All in the Garden - 4/18 Some Have Father's Gone to Glory - 3/30 Wallin, Doug A Bed of Primroses - 3/3 Brother Green - 3/4 The Carlisle Lady - 3/5 Darling Cora - 5/36 The Derby Ram - 3/16 Fair Eleanor and Lord Thomas - 3/15 The House Carpenter - 3/7 Let her Go, Let her Go - 5/35 The Little Mohee - 5/20 Little Willie - 3/17 Liza Jane - 3/18 McKinley - 3/9 The Murder of Colonel Sharp - 3/19 Pretty Fair Miss All in Her Garden - 5/21 Shoot that Turkey Buzzard - 3/6 The Time Draws Near - 3/21 Tom Dula - 3/8 The Youthful Warning - 3/20 Wallin, Vergie The Worrisome Woman - 3/22 Weaver, Edward (Ed) Cluck Old Hen - 1/3 My Man Will Be Home Some Old Day - 1/4 Take a Drink on Me - 2/18 Wimmer, Dent Baby-O - 1/17 Cumberland Gap - 1/18 Georgia Buck - 1/21 Half-Shaved Nigger - 1/19 Salt Creek - 1/20 Wimmer, Sherman Hounds in the Horn - 2/16 Woods, Charlie Chilly Winds - 2/5 Cindy - 5/22 Cripple Creek - 2/4 Eighth of January - 5/23 Green Mountain Polka - 5/23 Hogpatch Hill - 2/6 Pretty Girl Down the Road - 2/7 Shooting Creek - 2/4 Walking in the Parlour - 5/24 | |
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