Rough Guide To Music Of Appalachians (2002)

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Label: World Music Network
UPC: 00605633110425
Release Date: 7/9/2002
Buy.com Sku: 60558569
Item#: MXSSCM
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. God Spoke His Name - Claire Lynch ~ Various Artists
2. Happy I'll Be - Laurel Canyon Ramblers ~ Various Artists
3. My Sweet Love Ain't Around - Rhonda Vincent ~ Various Artists
4. Box Elder Beetles - Tom Adams ~ Various Artists
5. Wild Geese Cry Again - Peter Rowan ~ Various Artists
6. How Long Blues - Del McCoury ~ Various Artists
7. Another Lonesome Morning - The Cox Family ~ Various Artists
8. Jerusalem Ridge - The Tony Rice Unit ~ Various Artists
9. Still Climbing Mountains - Blue Highway ~ Various Artists
10. Old Church Yard, The - Larry Sparks ~ Various Artists
11. My Warfare Will Soon Be Over - Ginny Hawker ~ Various Artists
12. Two Coats - Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists
13. I've Got No Honey Baby Now - Rafe Stefanini ~ Various Artists
14. River Of Death - Bluegrass Album Band ~ Various Artists
15. Hard Times - Jeremy Stephens ~ Various Artists
16. Old Corn Liquor - Joe Thompson ~ Various Artists
17. Hello Stranger - Norman & Nancy Blake ~ Various Artists
18. Wise County Jail - Dock Boggs ~ Various Artists
19. Trail Of The Ancients, The ~ Various Artists



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Performers include: Tom Adams, Rhonda Vincent, Bluegrass Album Band, Tony Rice Unit, Blue Highway, Tony Trishka, Laurel Canyon Ramblers, Ginny Hawker, Joe Thompson, Jeanette Williams, Dock Boggs.
Arranger: Joe Thompson.
The Appalachian Mountains stretch from New England to Georgia, encompassing 18 states during their southward sprawl. The music of the area began with folk tunes imported by Scots-Irish and British settlers, pockets of whom were landlocked for decades. Visiting missionaries and schoolteachers were sometimes surprised to find small groups of their descendants still speaking antique English and singing songs that had long since been outmoded back in Great Britain. Outgrowths of this tradition became known as old timey music and was primarily played on instruments like the dulcimer, fiddle, and harmonica. However, with the coming of the railroad and the proliferation of the radio and other forms of mass-market communication, these populations not only began to learn from each other but to pick up outside influences from banjo-picking freed slaves, black and white church services, and Grand Ol' Opry broadcasts. The result was bluegrass, a string-driven, high-and-lonesome amalgam of several local styles that spread out from Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, and the Virginias, eventually taking the South and then the rest of the country by storm. The Rough Guide to the Music of the Appalachians compilation concentrates primarily on the latter, showcasing agile fiddlers, guitar flat-pickers, and the sweetly nasal, high-pitched, close-harmony singing that characterizes the genre. But a few other tributaries are also represented. Ginny Hawker's plangent modal twang and Ralph Stanley's rough-hewn tenor both hark back to 19th century front-porch singalongs. Joe Thompson, born in 1918, was an African-American fiddler, a much-revered icon for generations of younger players. But Rafe Stefanini is something of a wild card -- he moved from Bologna, Italy, to Pennsylvania, where he is now a respected old timey fiddler and violin maker. ~ Christina Roden

Producer: Phil Stanton (Compilation)

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 07/09/2002
Original Release Date : 2002
Catalog ID : 1104
Label : World Music Network (UK)
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00605633110425

  
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