A Superb New CD Set! Far on the Mountain

Subject: A Superb New CD Set! Far on the Mountain
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 13 May 02 - 03:46 PM

CAMSCO just received a new 2-CD set of field recordings made in the southern Appalachians in 1982 by Mike Yates, and published by Musical Traditions. Fine selection, fine performances (these are folk not professionals), fine notes, excellent packaging. $24 plus shipping and handling ($4.20 for up to $35 worth of recordings).

Track list is:

Far in the Mountains Vols 1 & 2

Volume One:
Pug Allen:
I Beano
2 Christmas Holiday
3 Cluck Old Hen
4 My Man Will Be Home Some Old Day
S Fire in the Mountains
Dan Tate:
6 Bugerboo
7 Cindy
8 Fish on a Hook/Walk Jawbone
9 Roustabout
10 The Wind and the Rain
11 The Devil's Grandmother
Sam Connor and Dent Wimmer:
12 Massa RunAway
13 Rickett's Hornpipe
14 Don't Get Trouble in Mind
15 Pig in the Pen
16 Western Countty
17 Baby-O
18 Cumberland Gap
19 Half-Shaved Nigger
20 Salt Creek
21 Georgia Buck
Eunice Yeatts MacAlexander:
22 Little Massie Groves
23 Wild Hog in the Woods
24 The Miller's Will
25 Over the River to Charlie
26 The Cruel Sister
Howard Hall & William Marshall:
27 Pretty Little Girl
28 Back-Step Cindy
29 Polly in the Kitchen
Ted Boyd:
30 Sweet Sunny South
31 Mississippi Sawyer
32 Sally Gooden
33 John Hardy
Dan Tate:
34 John Hardy
35 Old Grey Goose
36 Lightning and Thunder
37 Little Fisherman
38 Muck on my Heel / Molly Van
Eunice Yeatts MacAlexander:
39 It's Hardto Love
40 The Three Little Babes
41 IKnowaPretty Little Girl
42 Lord Bateman

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Volume Two:
Calvin & Viola Cole:
I Fall on my Knees
2 Molly Put the Kettle On
3 It Rained, It Mist
Charlie Woods:
4 Cripple Creek & Shooting Creek
5 Chilly Winds
6 Hog Patch Hill
7 Pretty Girl Down the Road
Dan Tate:
8 Old Dan Tucker
9 Old Mister Rabbit
10 Once I Lived in Old Virginia
11 Sugar Hill
12 The Sailor's Song
13 Who's On the Way?
Rob Tate:
14 Fortune
15 Piper's Gap
Sherman Wimmer:
16 Hounds in the Horn
Stella Kimble & Pearl Richardson:
17 Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies
Pug Allen:
18 Take a Drink on Me
19 McKinley
20 Up Jumped the Devil
21 Nigger Trader Boatman
22 Gold Rush
Stanley Hicks:
23 Sourwood Mountain
24 Groundhog
25 The Arishman and the Squirrel
26 Down the Road
27 Here Goes a Bluebird
28 Riddles & Where's the Ox At?
29 Barbara Allen
30 Sourwood Mountain
Evelyn & Douston Ramsey:
31 The Girl I Left Behind Me
32 Little Margaret
33 The Lily of the West
34 Somebody's Tall and Handsome
35 The Truelover's Farewell
36 The Truelover's Warning
37 Tom Dooley
38 Hold to God's Unchanging Hand

Subject: RE: A Superb New CD Set! Far on the Mountain
From: Ferrara
Date: 14 May 02 - 01:57 PM

Like I said, Dick, next time you're down here take a look at my woodburnings and see if there's anything you like.... I wouldn't mind a trade! This one looks awfully good, and I loved the samples I heard. These are very talented folks.

- Rita (who is too broke (cheap?) to buy CD's these days....)

Subject: RE: A Superb New CD Set! Far on the Mountain
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 14 May 02 - 05:10 PM

I have heard some of these and can heartily recommend them to anybody interested in genuine folk music. Mike Yates is a collector with real flair for bringing the best out of the people he records and as much taste, wisdom and knowledge as any collector working today. The Musical Traditions folks are people of the greatest integrity. Their work should be encouraged. That means -buy the albums-you won't regret it. Dick, I'll buy them in England, but all your side of the water should take advantage of your service.

Subject: RE: A Superb New CD Set! Far on the Mountain
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 21 May 02 - 11:54 PM

The remaining two CDs in this important set have just been released.

Track lists:

Far in the Mountains Vols 3 & 4

Volume Three:

Morris Allen
1. Oh Come See Me If You Can
Paul Brown
2.Red Clay County
Doug Wallin and Berzilla Wallin
3.A Bed of Primroses
4. Brother Green
5.The Carlisle Lady
6.Shoot that Turkey Buzzard
7.The Housecarpenter
8.Tom Dula
9.McKinley
Hattie Presnell
10.Jack and the King's Chest
Garrett. & Norah Arwood
11.Barbara Allen
12.The Butcher's Boy
13.Poison In a Glass of Wine
14.Shady Grove
Doug Wallin
15.Fair Eleanor and Lord Thomas
16.The Derby Ram
17.Little Willie
18.Liza Jane
19.The Murder of Colonel Sharp
20.The Youthful Warning
21.The Time Draws Near
Vergie Wallin
22.The Worrisome Woman
Walt Davis & Jay C McCool
23.Graveyard Blues
24.Banjo Clog
25.Power In the Blood
26.Russian Roulette
27.White Oak Stomp
Cass Wallin
28.Lord Daniel
29.Camp A Little While in the Wilderness
30.Some have Fathers Gone to Glory
31.The Preacher's Song
32.Jerusalem Mourn

Volume Four:

Benton Flippen
1.Garry Dowson's Tune
2.Let Me Fall
3.June Apple
4.Cotton-Eyed Joe
Dellie Norton. & Inez Chandler
5.Little Honey
6.Black is the Colour
7.Little Betty Ann
8.Little Sparrow
9.Oh. Lord, Ellie
10.The Silkmerchant's Daughter
Tommy Jarrel
11.Devil In The Strawstack
12.Roundtown Gals
13.Train on the Island
Hattie Presnell
14.Cuckle Pea and His Sister
Mitchel Hopson
15.Snowbird on the Ashbank
Cat Wallin
16.Fair Ellender and Lord Thomas
17.The Little Soldier
18.Pretty Fair Miss All in the Garden
19.The Derby Ram
20.Hesitation Blues
John Hopson
21.Brown's Dream
Ethel Birchfield
22.The Arishman Learning to Talk
23.Big Horny and Little Horny
24.Granster and Nippy
Robert Sykes
25.Black-Eyed Susie
26.Paddy on the Turnpike

Mike Yates, who did the collecting in 1979-1983, set out to follow the trail that Cecil Sharp had blazed in 1916-1918. In the course of his trvels, he developed a picture of how little--and how much--- Appalachian folk music had changed in three-quarters of a century.

Each 2-volume set is accompanied by a thorough, well-written booklet of over 30 pages, including discussions, discographies and lyrics.

This stuff is GOOD!

Subject: RE: A Superb New CD Set! Far on the Mountain
From: GUEST,Nerd
Date: 22 May 02 - 01:45 PM

One thing I can suggest is going to the Musical Traditions web site (www.mustrad.org.uk). The liner notes from these sets are up in the "articles" section, as is a great article by Yates about Cecil Sharp's time in the Appalachians. After reading some of this stuff, you'll be primed for buying the CDs!