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Airymouse Origins: Music of Appalachia (54* d) RE: Origins: Music of Appalachia 02 Nov 14


I too have no Facebook account and can't access anything from the highlighted link. I don't know anything about Appalachian instrumental music, but my impression is that it is well served by the people of the crooked road. I could be wrong. I'm more confident in my opinion that when it comes to the Appalachian love songs, nursery songs, play-party songs and ballads these same people are doing more harm than good. I have had someone from the crooked road tell me that these songs are no longer being sung here. That's wrong.Take Mary Lomax, for example. If you exempt Charlottesville VA, on the grounds that it really isn't in the Appalachian mountains, Cecil Sharp collected all his songs from the southern Appalachians from singers who sang unaccompanied. Here is a simple test. I'll bet you a nickel, maybe more, that tenn. Jim can't name three venues on the crooked road where last month some singer sang old songs without accompaniment.


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