Classic Old-Time Music

Classic Old-Time Music Artist: Various Artists
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 093074009321
EAN: 0093074009321
ASIN: B00008OM0A


Release Date: 2003-04-22

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Listmania:

  1. Old Time is Not Dead

Tracks:

  1. Sugar Hill - The Iron Mountain Band
  2. Bill Morgan And His Gal - The New Lost City Ramblers
  3. Country Blues - Dock Boggs
  4. Little Sadie - Clarence Ashley
  5. Susannah Gal - Tommy Jarrell
  6. Wednesday Night Waltz - Clark Kessinger
  7. Cyclone Of Rye Cove - The New Lost City Ramblers
  8. I'm Leaving You This Lonesome Song - Maybelle Carter And Sarah Carter Bayes
  9. Carroll County Blues - Doc Watson
  10. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down - Sam And Kirk McGee
  11. Trouble In Mind - Roscoe Holcomb
  12. Chilly Winds - Wade Ward
  13. Going Down The Road Feeling Bad - David, Bill And Billy Ray Johnson
  14. Pretty Polly - Lee Sexton
  15. Bonaparte's Retreat - Mike Seeger
  16. Concord Rag - J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers
  17. John Henry - George Pegram
  18. Bowling Green - Cousin Emmy With The New Lost City Ramblers
  19. Fine Times At Our House - John W. Summers
  20. Streets Of Glory - Old Reliable String Band
  21. Policeman - The Spare Change Boys
  22. Love Somebody (Soldier's Joy) - Joe And Tommy Thompson
  23. House Of David Blues - Red Clay Ramblers
  24. Ship In The Clouds - Andy Cahan
  25. Late Last Night - Sam And Kirk McGee
  26. Look Down That Lonesome Road - Gaither Carlton
  27. Down Yonder - John Patterson
  28. Jaybird March - Etta Baker
  29. John Brown's Dream - The New Lost City Ramblers

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Mountain music magic.......2007-01-06

Here's another excellent compilation of material that originally appeared on various Folkways albums recorded during the last four decades of the twentieth century, all featuring old-timey country string band performances. The Red Clay Ramblers, The New Lost City Ramblers, Slim and Kirk McGhee, Doc Watson, Mike Seeger, and Clarence Ashley are just a few of the artists on this CD, and fiddles, banjos, and guitars are the instruments of choice. Whether it's Wade Wards wonderful banjo picking on the solo CHILLY WINDS, Mike Seeger's fiddle on BONAPARTE'S RETREAT, or the jubilant singing of Eric Davidson with the Iron Mountain String Band on SUGAR HILL, the music is rich in tradition and delightful to hear. Roots music fans will certainly love this CD, but so will anyone who enjoys old-time music from the southern mountains played to perfection. A most infectious CD, well worth acquiring.

4 out of 5 stars A Great Mix of Old-Time Music.......2005-10-10

This CD contains a superb selection of old-time string music and vocals from an era that currently seems to be overlooked by the country-western crowd, and, to a certain extent,even the bluegrass affcionados. Some of the recordings in the mix are obviously dated and not the highest quality, but these are countered by crystal-clear performances by such greats as the New Lost City Ramblers, Mike Seeger, George Pegram, the Spare Change Boys, Mother Maybelle Carter and Doc Watson. This CD contains fiddle tunes, waltzes, cloggin' tunes, spirituals, instrumentals and vocals that are pure and totally acoustic. I love putting this CD in my truck, rolling down the windows, opening the moon roof, and cranking up the volume, drowning out the hip-hop coming from the hoopdies in the other lane. It's a fantastic selection.

5 out of 5 stars mountain music at its peak.......2003-05-10

In this, the fourth of a series of collections culled from Smithsonian Folkways' massive archives, the focus is on the deep mountain music of masters famous and obscure, and the quality is uniformly high. Another plus is Jeff Place's excellent liner notes, which include informative annotations to each song or tune and performance. All told, this is the sort of thing that ought to make any devotee of Southern roots sounds very, very happy.

The performances come from both rural and revival artists, but the difference is academic, and the two meld into a seamless whole. Inevitably, a few songs are old, albeit never unwelcome, reliables, such as Dock Boggs's "Country Blues" and Clarence Ashley's "Little Sadie," but there are plenty of surprises, too. One has Maybelle Carter and Sara Carter Bayes reunited in the 1960s to do, interestingly, a song associated with the Delmore Brothers. The wonderful late-1960s LP -- never reissued in its entirety as a CD -- that Cousin Emmy recorded with the New Lost City Ramblers is tapped for an energetic, assured rendition of "Bowling Green" (also memorably sung elsewhere by the revivalist duo the Kossoy Sisters, and not to be confused with the Everly Brothers song of the same name). Roscoe Holcomb's "Trouble in Mind" is almost disorienting in its intensity, transforming a familiar song into something else entirely. There's Wade Ward's rocking banjo instrumental "Chilly Winds" (aka "Going Down This Road Feeling Bad") and Etta Baker and Cora Phillips's gorgeous banjo/guitar duet "Jaybird March." And there's everything else, too. If you're looking for mountain music at its peak, Smithsonian Folkways has -- as usual -- brought you there.

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  8. If You See a Dream ~ Libby Roderick
  9. Christmas Spirituals ~ Odetta
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