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Resource Type:
Streaming Music
Publication:
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways, [2006]
Copyright:
℗2006
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Table of Contents:
  • Amelia Earhart's last flight (The Greenbriar Boys) (3:47)
  • The brakeman's blues (Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys) (2:32)
  • Foggy mountain top (Maybelle Carter) (2:07)
  • Hick's farewell (Doc Watson) (5:00)
  • Jordan is a hard road to travel (The New Lost City Ramblers) (2:42)
  • Write me a few of your lines (Fred McDowell) (2:54)
  • Bimini gal (Joseph Spence) (2:44)
  • Shady grove (1:47) ; Grey eagle (1:36) ; Walkin' the dog (2:03) (Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys)
  • San Francisco Bay blues (Jesse Fuller) (3:24)
  • Short life of trouble (Doc and Arnold Watson) (3:41)
  • John Henry (Roscoe Holcomb) (1:59)
  • Kneelin' down inside the gate (Stanley Thompson) (3:45)
  • Tell my why you like Roosevelt (McKinley Peebles) (4:29)
  • Bury me under the weeping willow (Maybelle Carter) (2:34)
  • Mansions for me (The Stanley Brothers) (2:27)
  • Before this time another year (Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers) (5:02).
  • I'm troubled (Doc and Arnold Watson) (3:10)
  • The country blues (Dock Boggs) (4:24)
  • Going down to the river (Fred McDowell) (3:09)
  • East Virginia blues (Roscoe Holcomb) (4:51)
  • The storms are on the ocean (Maybelle Carter) (3:03)
  • The dream of the miner's child (The Stanley Brothers) (4:03)
  • Soldier's joy (Hobart Smith) (1:45)
  • Coffee blues (Mississippi John Hurt) (4:47)
  • Live and let live (Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys) (2:46)
  • Lonely tombs (The Watson Family) (2:25)
  • Rockin' boogie (Jesse Fuller) (3:46)
  • Brown's dream (Gaither Carlton and Doc Watson) (1:43)
  • Down south blues (Dock Boggs) (3:17)
  • Knoxville blues (Sam McGee) (2:30)
  • Have a feast here tonight (The Stanley Brothers) (3:12)
  • Riley (John Davis and the Georgia Sea Island Singers) (2:09)
  • Buck and wing (Jesse Fuller) (1:22)
  • Hell among the yearlings (Arthur Smith) (1:47).
  • My creole belle (Mississippi John Hurt) (2:54)
  • "Guitar lesson" (1:26) ; Cincinnati blues (2:27) (Jesse Fuller)
  • Poor boy in jail (Dock Boggs) (2:41)
  • He's solid gone (Maybelle Carter) (2:44)
  • Maggie Walker blues (The Clarence Ashley Group) (3:43)
  • Chevrolet (Ed Young and Emma Ramsay) (3:14)
  • Rising sun blues (Roscoe Holcomb) (3:03)
  • Lord, build me a cabin in glory (Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys) (1:37)
  • Frankie and Albert (Mississippi John Hurt) (5:20)
  • Hard times (The Stanley Brothers) (2:23)
  • The miller's will (Horton Barker) (3:17)
  • The coo coo bird (Clarence Ashley) (4:04)
  • Double file (Gaither Carlton and Doc Watson) (1:30)
  • The wandering boy (Annie Bird) (3:22)
  • Stranger blues (Jessie Fuller) (3:29)
  • I saw the light (Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys) (2:24)
  • Sugar Hill (Maybelle Carter) (1:06)
  • Amazing grace (The Clarence Ashley Group) (4:29).
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Contributors:
Ashley, Clarence, 1895-1967 , performer
Barker, Horton, 1889-1973 , performer
Bird, Annie , performer
Boggs, Dock, 1898-1971 , performer
Carlton, Gaither, 1901-1972 , performer
Carter, Maybelle, 1909-1978 , performer
Davis, John (Folk-singer) , performer
Fuller, Jesse , performer
Holcomb, Roscoe , performer
Hurt, Mississippi John, 1892-1966 , performer
Jones, Bessie, 1902-1984 , performer
McDowell, Fred , performer
McGee, Sam, 1894-1975 , performer
Monroe, Bill, 1911-1996 , performer
Peebles, Kinny , performer
Ramsay, Emma , performer
Siegel, Peter K. , performer
Smith, Arthur, 1898-1971 , performer
Smith, Hobart, 1897-1965 , performer
Spence, Joseph, 1910-1984 , performer
Thompson, Stanley , performer
Watson, Arnold , performer
Watson, Doc.
Young, Ed, 1908-1974 , performer
Blue Grass Boys , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
Clarence Ashley Group , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
Doc Watson Family (Musical group) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
Friends of Old-Time Music
Greenbriar Boys , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
New Lost City Ramblers , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
Sea Island Singers , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
Smithsonian Institution > Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Stanley Brothers , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Alternate Titles:
Subtitle on original container: Folk arrival, 1961-1965
Subjects:
Bluegrass music — 1961-1970
Blues (Music) — 1961-1970
Folk songs, English — United States
Old-time music
Popular music — 1961-1970
1961-1970
Blues (Music)
Folk songs, English
Popular music
Bluegrass music
United States
Performers:
Various performers.
General Notes:
"Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage"--Original container.
Blues, bluegrass, popular, and traditional music recorded at the Friends of Old Time Music concerts in New York, N.Y.
Originally issued as compact discs.
Program and biographical notes laid in original container.
Some selections previously released.
Recorded live in New York City, Feb. 11, 1961-May 16, 1965.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Audio Characteristics:
digital
Digital Characteristics:
audio file
Call Numbers:
Online Audio
OCLC Numbers:
698166846
Other Control Numbers:
sky234872917 (source: CaEvSKY)
367288 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP367288/glmu