Old-Time music fund-raiser cd

Subject: OldTime music fundraiser cd
From: nickp
Date: 15 Aug 04 - 02:18 PM

The new FOAOTMAD fundraising sampler cd is now available.

Friends of American Old Time Music and Dance

Comprising of tracks generously donated by American artists who have guested at previous Gainsborough festivals, it is called 'Friends Across The Pond' and features (in a semblance of alphabetical order): Riley Baugus, Dave Bing, Bob Carlin, Celestial Railroad String Band, Dwight Diller, Gandydancer, Rayna Gellert, Sara Grey, Diane Jones, Konnarock Critters, Dan Levenson, Kate Lissauer, Debby McClatchy, Bruce Molksy, Ron Mullenex, New Deal String Band, Reed Island Rounders, Rough Deal String Band and our most recent headliners, Tom, Brad and Alice.

If you wish to order a copy, it costs £13 including postage and packing for those in the UK. Make your cheques payable to FOAOTMAD and send to Claire Rudd, 53 North Street, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 3PW (and UK if you don't live here).

Available elsewhere for 20 US dollars or 20 euros - includes postage - send cash at your own risk. Sorry, but no foreign cheques or cards.

NIckp

Subject: RE: OldTime music fundraiser cd
From: BanjoRay
Date: 15 Aug 04 - 07:02 PM

That's as good an Old Time sampler CD as I've seen in years - superb for finding out what the modern US Old Time musicians are turning out. I can't wait for my copy - having seen and enjoyed (and often jammed with)all of these people at the Gainsborough OT Festival.
Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: OldTime music fundraiser cd
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 06:42 PM

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Subject: RE: OldTime music fundraiser cd
From: BanjoRay
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 08:51 PM

I've now had a chance to listen to it -it's superb. It's a fundraiser, but it's much more important than that. Many of these musicians are as good as it gets. Here's the track notes:

Friends Across The Pond
1.   Possum up a Gum Stump   Celestial Railroad String Band   (2:40)
Learned from several sources.
Matt Gardner – bass, Tim Gardner – fiddle, Lo Gordon – banjo, Mary Gordon – guitar.
Gainsborough Festival Guests: 2003, and frequent attenders at other times too.
CD Source: specially recorded for this album.
www.celestialmtnmusic.com

2.   Sail Away Ladies   Tom Brad and Alice   (3:03)
Based on the playing of Tommy Jarrell with words from Negro Folk Rhymes by Thomas Talley.
Tom Sauber – banjo, Brad Leftwich – fiddle and lead vocal, Alice Gerrard – guitar and harmony vocal.
CD source: Holly Ding, Copper Creek CCCD-0179, courtesy Copper Creek Records.
Gainsborough: 2002, 2004.
www.tombradalice.com.
www.coppercreekrec.com/

3.   Sugar in the Gourd   Rayna Gellert – fiddle   (2:29)
From the playing of Marcus Martin, who lived in Swannanoa, North Carolina.
CD source: Ways of the World – Rayna Gellert, Yodel-Ay-Hee CD032
Gainsborough: 2003
www.raynagellert.com

4.   Cherry River Line   Diane Jones – banjo and vocal    (3:06)
Accompanied here by Dave Bing on guitar, Diane learned this from a recording by Jenes Cottrell of Clay County, West Virginia.
CD source: There Are No Rules – Diane Jones and Hubie King.
Gainsborough: 2003 with the Reed Island Rounders.

5.   Wolves a-Howlin   Rough Deal String Band   (1:56)
Taken from a number of sources.
Ben Keogh – guitar and vocal, Tim Rogers – fiddle and vocal, Bill Whelan – banjo.
CD source: specially recorded for this album, and now on The Rough Deal String Band, CD2004
Gainsborough: every year since 2000
www.roughdeal.com

6.   Little Billie Wilson   Dan Levenson – banjo   (2:36)
A traditional tune.
CD source: Barenaked Banjos, Buzzard CD2000.
Gainsborough: 2003 with the Hippie-billies: Jennifer Levenson – banjo, Annie Trimble – guitar, Wes Linenkugel – bass.
www.oldtimemusic.us

7.   Sweet Sunny South   Kate Lissauer – fiddle and vocal   (4:30)
These lyrics appear on pre-civil war songsheets, sometimes crediting the name, Raymond, and the melody that Kate uses is from Kentucky fiddler, Buddy Thomas, who recorded a tune he called Sweet Sunny South on his album, Kitty Puss.
CD source: Ain't No Grave – Kate Lissauer, Wildwood CD19PO2
Gainsborough: regularly since 1997
www.wildwood-records.co.uk

8.   Put Your Hand to the Plow   Dwight Diller – banjo and vocal   (3:24)
A son of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, Dwight had this from Jenes Cottrell of Dead Fall Run, Clay County, W.Va.
CD source: Harvest – Dwight Diller, YP-IX3
Gainsborough: regularly since 1998, usually with Dave Bing
www.dwightdiller.com

9.   Yew Piney Mountain   Reed Island Rounders   (2:57)
The fiddling comes from Harvey Sampson and this piece is a West Virginia favourite.
Billy Cornette – guitar, Diane Jones – banjo, Betty Vornbrock – fiddle.
CD source: Goin' Back, Burning Wolf BW003.
Gainsborough: regulars since Betty guested in 1996.
www.reedisland.com

10.   Trouble On My Mind / Jenny Get Around    Gandydancer   (2:58)
From John Salyer of Kentucky.
Dave Bing – fiddle, Jim Martin – bass, Gerry Milnes – fiddle, Ron Mullennex – banjo, Mark Payne – guitar.
CD source: Gandydancer, JMP 201.
Gainsborough: 2001

11.   Didn't He Ramble   New Deal String Band   (3:07)
A classic from Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers.
Tom Paley – guitar and lead vocal, Joe Locker – banjo and harmony vocal, Ben Paley – fiddle.
CD source: Dealing a New Hand, Wildwood CD19804.
Gainsborough: Tom has been with us from the very beginning, often with Joe and Ben too.
www.wildwood-records.co.uk

12.   Stonewall Jackson   Dave Bing – fiddle   (2:30)
Borrowed from the playing of Jimmy Wheeler of Portsmouth, Ohio.
CD source: Cross Ties – Gandydancer, JMP 203
Gainsborough: a regular, usually with Dwight Diller, or as a Gandydancer.   

13.   Hop High My Lulu Gal   Sara Grey – banjo and vocal   (3:17)
This comes from the singing of Jim Miller, via Fiddlers of North Carolina.
Accompanied by Kieron Means – guitar and vocal with Kate Lissauer – fiddle and vocal.
CD source: Boy, She's a Daisy – Sara Grey, Series LTCD 1301, courtesy of Tradition Bearers
Gainsborough: 1995, 1997, 2004.
www.ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/saragrey
www.thetraditionbearers.com

14.   Martha Campbell   Bob Carlin – banjo   (3:16)
First recorded by Kentucky fiddler, Doc Roberts, this version comes from Buddy Thomas.
CD source: Mr Spaceman – Bob Carlin, Car Tunes Recordings CD102.
Gainsborough: 2000
www.cartunesrecordings.com

15.   I Truly Understand   Bruce Molsky – fiddle and vocal   (4:45)
From Shortbuckle Roarke and family of Pineville, Kentucky, inspired by John Speckler's arrangement.
CD source: Warring Cats – Bruce Molsky, Yodel-Ay-Hee CD011
Gainsborough: 1999
www.BruceMolsky.com

16.   Stone Camp / Sugar Babe   Ron Mullennex – banjo and vocal   (2:35)
Stone Camp is an original tune written by Ron in 1973 and Sugar Babe comes from Sherman Hammons.
CD source: Banjo Legacy, AHR 824, courtesy Augusta Heritage Centre, West Virginia
Gainsborough: 2001, with Gandydancer.
[e-mail]

17.   Amazing Grace   Debby McClatchy – banjo and vocal   (3:16)
A reworking of the great John Newton hymn to a less familiar tune.
CD source: Chestnut Ridge – Debby McClatchy, Trails End CD2003
Gainsborough: 1999, 2004.
http://members.cox.net/debbymcclatchy/

18.   Pretty Polly   Riley Baugus – banjo and vocal   (3:09)
Deriving from the playing of Fred Cockerham.
CD source: Life of Riley, Yodel-Ay-Hee CD038.
Gainsborough: 2000, on guitar with the Konnarock Critters.

19.   Johnny Don't Get Drunk   The Konnarock Critters   (3:01)
The origins of this traditional tune are not known.
Al Firth – bass, Brian Grim – fiddle, Debby Grim – banjo, Jim Lloyd – guitar.
CD source: Rattletrap, Marimac 9070D, courtesy Marimac Recordings Inc.
Gainsborough: 2000 with Riley Baugus for Jim Lloyd on guitar. Jim was here in 2001 with Jim Costa.

Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: OldTime music fundraiser cd
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Aug 04 - 01:55 PM

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Subject: RE: OldTime music fundraiser cd
From: BanjoRay
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 08:29 PM

Extracts from a couple of the tracks have now been placed in the FOAOTMAD web site here.
Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: OldTime music fundraiser cd
From: nickp
Date: 22 Aug 04 - 11:21 AM

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Subject: RE: OldTime music fundraiser cd
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 06:00 AM

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Subject: RE: OldTime music fundraiser cd
From: GUEST,Eugene Judge
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 03:07 PM

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Subject: RE: OldTime music fundraiser cd
From: nickp
Date: 01 Sep 04 - 02:55 PM

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Subject: RE: OldTime music fundraiser cd
From: nickp
Date: 08 Sep 04 - 01:06 PM

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Subject: RE: OldTime music fundraiser cd
From: BanjoRay
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 12:39 PM

I will have a bunch of these for sale at the Sweet Sunny South Oltime festival, at the Fairlight Lodge Hotel, Ore, Hastings this weekend. A really good festival with lots of jamming and guests Rough Deal String Band
Old Faded Glory
Nick Peachey
Rosie Davis
with workshops in Fiddle(Tim Rogers), Banjo (Bill Whelan), Minstrel banjo(Barry Murphy), Dance(Rosie Davies), String Band music(Old Faded Glory).
Details at Sweet Sunny South
Cheers
Ray (My banjo has a rooster on the peghead)

Subject: RE: OldTime music fundraiser cd
From: nickp
Date: 14 Sep 04 - 01:03 PM

Not a live rooster of course....

Subject: RE: OldTime music fundraiser cd
From: nickp
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 05:36 PM

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Subject: RE: Old-Time music fund-raiser cd
From: BanjoRay
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 06:43 PM

Great stuff - the CD's got an excellent review at the
Musical Traditions website by Mike Yates. He's a bit critical of the sleevenotes, but loves the music.
Cheers
Ray