There are three "moonshine" songs on Frank Proffitt's first Folk-Legacy recording (now only available as a cassette (C-1) with a booklet of texts and notes on the songs): Moonshine, Rye Whiskey, and I'll Never Get Drunk No More. All three of these refer to the home-made hard stuff. On his "Memorial" recording, C-36, he sings his own "Blackberry Wine (was the cause of it all, oh, my Lord).

Frank, for those of you who have never heard (of) him, was a North Carolina traditional singer, instrument maker, farmer and sometime carpenter. A proud mountain man whom I was pleased to record back in the early 60s. Frank Warner had collected songs from Frank as early as 1938. Frank was Warner's source for the famous "Tom Dooley" of the great folk scare. There are two of Frank's ballads on my new "Ballads and Songs of Tradition" - CD-125 - both accompanied on one of his fretless banjos.

Sandy (resident folk fogey)