Mountain Music of Kentucky (1996)

About this title: In 1959, John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers made field recordings in the mountains of Kentucky of Appalachian folk performers who were virtually unknown to the record-buying public. This is no-nonsense, sometimes raw stuff, with fiddlers, banjos, a cappella singers, and Baptist church choirs presenting folk standards, blues-influenced numbers, stomping bluegrass, even the odd country song. It's got as much of the unadulterated American white folk feel as the older recordings on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music box (to use a celebrated example), though the material here is ... read more

Tracks:

1. Old Age Pension Blues [Traditional]
2. Hook and Line [Traditional]
3. John Henry [Traditional]
4. Pretty Polly [Traditional]
5. Old Reuben
6. Spring of '65 [Traditional]
7. Sally in the Garden [Traditional]
8. Barbara Allen [Traditional]
9. When We Shall Meet [Traditional]
10. Amazing Grace [Newton]
11. Across the Rocky Mountain [Holcomb]
12. Graveyard Blues [Traditional]
13. Cripple Creek [Traditional]
14. True Love [Traditional]
15. Sally in the Garden [Traditional]
16. Lost Indian [Traditional]
17. Hollow Poplar [Traditional]
18. Death of the Blue Eagle [Davis]
19. Little Birdie [Traditional]
20. Lost Indian [Traditional]
21. Jaw Bone [Traditional]
22. Bunker's Hill [Traditional]
23. Cacklin' Hen [Traditional]
24. Julie Ann [Traditional]
25. Born in Old Kentucky [Traditional]
26. Buck Creek Girls [Traditional]
27. Sweet Willie [Traditional]
28. Cluck Old Hen [Traditional]
29. Coney Island [Hutchison]
30. Baby Let Your Hair Roll Down [Traditional]
31. Wayfaring Stranger [Traditional]
32. Stingy Woman [Holcomb]
33. East Virginia Blues [Traditional]
34. Single Girl [Traditional]
35. Black Eyed Susie [Traditional]
36. Hills of Mexico
37. Foreign Lander [Traditional]
38. Kitty Alone [Traditional]
39. Young and Tender Ladies [Traditional]
40. Charlie's Neat [Traditional]
41. Cotton-Eyed Joe [Traditional]
42. Little Sunshine [Traditional]
43. Wild Bill Jones [Traditional]
44. Great Speckled Bird [Carter/Smith]
45. Clap and Shout [Traditional]
46. Cry from the Cross [Masters]
47. Clap and Shout and Shriek [Traditional]
48. The Wagoner's Lad [Traditional]
49. The Absentee [Traditional]
50. The Coo Coo
51. Marthis Campbell [Traditional]
52. Sally Goodin' [Traditional]
53. Fiddler a Dram [Traditional]
54. Fox Chase [Traditional]
55. Old Joe Clark [Traditional]
56. Fire on the Mountain [Traditional]
57. Ways of the World [Traditional]
58. Inch Along [Traditional]
59. Skip to My Lou [Traditional]
60. St. Louis Blues [Handy]
61. Pretty Polly [Traditional]
62. Fly Around [Traditional]
63. Fox Chase [Traditional]
64. Ruby [Traditional]
65. No Letter in the Mail [Gregory/Carlisle]
66. Fair Miss in the Garden [Traditional]
67. John Henry [Traditional]
68. Rocky Island [Traditional]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.