Family Songs And Stories From The North Carolina Mountains

Artist: Doug and Jack Wallin Label: Smithsonian Folkways Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 093074001325 EAN: 0093074001325 ASIN: B000001DGK Release Date: 1995-05-23

Listmania:

1. Old-Time Music By Families
2. The Best From Smithsonian Folkways

Tracks:

1. Jackaro
2. The Golden Vanity
3. Story About William Riley Shelton
4. Omie Wise
5. Darling Cora
6. The Nightingale
7. Pretty Little Girl With The Blue Dress On
8. Young Emily
9. Pretty Polly
10. Foggy Dew
11. Pretty Fair Miss In A Garden
12. Roving Gambler
13. Bold Lieutenant
14. My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains
15. House Carpenter
16. Two Ghost Stories
17. Come Over Into Canaan's Land
18. Rolling With The Tide
19. Pretty Saro

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1. Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
2. Dark Holler: Old Love Songs and Ballads
3. Classic Old-Time Music
4. The Library Of Congress Archive Of Folk Culture: Anglo-American Ballads, Volume Two

Customer Reviews:

Pure Gold.......2000-08-02

The virtue of this recording is that we hear the songs interpreted by men who, while adhering to a quite conservative strain of the English/Scots-Irish ballad tradition, are no less consummate MUSICIANS for that. The power and passion of these recordings, ranging from astonishingly stark and sparse to fuller arrangements with banjo that are no less true, are simply not arguable. This is the real thing, and will affect anyone who has a taste for traditional music that tends to carry a tinge of fearsome melancholy energy.

Now, I ordered this CD and another because I wanted some old time music of the region to listen to as I sit up here on a mountainside in Haywood County, North Carolina, where I am working for a few weeks. (As I write this, a bat is flying through the mists of a clearing storm.) I tried to choose carefully, and I really hit the jackpot with this one. I paired it with "Songs from the Mountain," an effort from Dirk Powell, Tim O'Brien, and John Herrmann to recreate with some fidelity the 19th century music that pervades the popular novel "Cold Mountain." There is no comparison between the two--"Songs from the Mountain" reeks of the modern "folk" concert venue, and we hear little of the raw power or true rhythms that fill "Family Songs and Stories." (By the way, the two tracks of stories add some real flavor without interrupting the music for too long.)

In short, if you got as far as this page, don't miss this record--it is a true gift to have these real traditional musicians' work preserved.

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