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- Subtitle on original container: Folk arrival, 1961-1965
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- Smithsonian global sound for libraries
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- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- 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, 1893-1953, performer
- Watson, Arnold, performer
- Watson, Doc, performer
- Young, Ed, 1908-1974, performer
- Blue Grass Boys
- Clarence Ashley Group
- Doc Watson Family (Musical group)
- Friends of Old-Time Music
- Greenbriar Boys
- New Lost City Ramblers
- Sea Island Singers
- Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- Stanley Brothers
- Publication
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- Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways, [2006]
- ℗2006
- Physical Details
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- Streaming sound files
- OCLC
- ocm75256799, ocn698166846
- Credits
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- Various performers
- "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.
- 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 (3:17) -- Knoxville blues (Sam McGee) (2:30) -- Have a feast here tonight (3:12) -- Riley (John Davis and the Georgia Sea Island Singers) (2:09) -- Buck and wing (1:22) -- Hell among the yearlings (Arthur Smith) (1:47)
- 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 (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)
- 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 (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 (2:24) -- Sugar Hill (1:06) -- Amazing grace (4:29)