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| Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways | 
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| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 3777
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 40094
UPC: 093074009420
EAN: 0093074009420
ASIN: B00006JTG5
Release Date: October 22, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Omie Wise - Doug Wallin | | • | Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs | | • | I Am a Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow - Old Regular Baptists | | • | Sixteen Tons - George Davis | | • | John Henry - Lesley Riddle | | • | Lost Indian - Marion Sumner | | • | Southbound - Doc and Merle Watson | | • | High on a Mountain - Ola Belle Reed | | • | Coal Creek March - Pete Steele | | • | Coal Miner Blues - Hazel Dickens/Alice Gerrard | | • | Railroad Blues - Sam McGee | | • | Cuckoo Bird - Clarence Ashley | | • | Conversation with Death (Oh Death) - Berzilla Wallin | | • | Lone Prairie - Wade Ward | | • | Rain and Snow - Dillard Chandler | | • | Mole in the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lundsford | | • | Moonshiner - Roscoe Holcomb | | • | Wildwood Flower - Kilby Snow | | • | Barbry Ellen - Jean Ritchie | | • | Daniel Prayed - Watson, Price and Howard | | • | Wreck of the Number Nine - Pop Stoneman | | • | Red Jacket Mine Explosion - The Phipps Family | | • | Kingdom Come - Norman Edmonds | | • | Amazing Grace - Horton Barker |
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Album Description
Riding the wave of the renewed interest in traditional American music, Classic Mountain Songs From Smithsonian Folkways Recordings showcases a handful of the greatest mountain ballads as performed by some of the most influential folk singers and songwriters of the 20th century. This collection features many classic performances from a wide variety of regional instrumental and song styles. These diverse styles and songs types from the mountain communities of North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee include old-time fiddle and banjo pieces, early bluegrass, and traditional ballads, with a special emphasis on Appalachian vocal traditions. Doc and Merle Watson, Roscoe Holcomb, Clarence Ashley, and Dock Boggs are just a few of the revered roots artists who appear on this stellar compilation. This is an essential album for both old and new fans of American mountain music. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Truly Classic! February 13, 2003
47 out of 53 found this review helpful
The spate of worthy compilations riding on the coattails of O Brother, Where Art Thou? continues with Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian Folkways, 25 tracks of serious bluegrass untarnished by rock, pop or other corrupting influences. Recorded between 1956 and 1992, it includes three numbers from what's purportedly the first bluegrass LP ever, Folkways'American Banjo: Three-Finger And Scruggs Style. Dashing mandolin runs by Earl Taylor (and his Stoney Mountain Boys) and bluegrass patriarch Bill Monroe (with Peter Rowan) open and close this crisp disc while Ralph Stanley, singing with older brother Carter, offers clawhammer banjo picking.
Many of the performers - Red Allen, Doc Watson and Hazel Dickens, for example - grew up with the music. The Harley Allen-Mike Lilly Band (Harley being Red's son) shows how the genre's trademark tight harmonies can turn smooth (in an Osborne Brothers style) rather than sharp, without sacrificing the essence of true bluegrass. The New Lost City Ramblers' The Little Girl And The Dreadful Snake as well as The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover's Neath That Cold Grey Tomb Of Stone evince mountain music's darkness, but then a wildfire fiddle breakdown such as David and Billy Ray Johnson's Grey Eagle comes along to show its fun side. It's a well-balanced set of early bluegrass highlights.
Terrific sound recordings! November 6, 2006
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
Great recordings of a wide variety of songs. Entertaining, great to just listen to, or to learn music from. Nice variety of classic sounds.
 Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways July 14, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I love Appalachian Folk Music and this CD included most of the best. It was true blue original recording of this music.
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