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Ballads, banjo tunes, and sacred songs of western North Carolina
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- Creator
- Bascom Lamar Lunsford
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Washington, DC : Smithsonian/Folkways, [1996]
- ℗1996
- Physical Details
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- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
- OCLC
- ocm36348212
- Credits
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- Bascom Lamar Lunsford, vocals, banjo, "mandoline."
- Smithsonian/Folkways: SF 40082 (on container: SF CD 40082).
- Title from container.
- Compact disc.
- Program notes by Loyal Jones, Jo Lunsford Herron, and Wayne Martin, notes on the songs by Lunsford, texts, and selected bibliography, discography, and videography (24 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
- Recorded principally in Mar. 1949 for the Archive of American Folk Song; 5 selections recorded Feb. 1928, originally released on Brunswick and Vocalion.
- Swannanoa Tunnel (3:37) -- The mermaid song (3:16) -- Ten steps (1:46) -- Little turtle dove (2:51) -- In the shadow of the pines (4:52) -- Swing low (2:47) -- Bonny George Campbell (2:05) -- I wish I was a mole in the ground (3:19) -- On a bright and summer's morning (2:35) -- To the pines, to the pines (2:29) -- Dry bones (2:58) -- The last gold dollar (2:02) -- Rye straw (1:36) -- Old mountain dew (3:03) -- Italy (3:23) -- Death of Queen Jane (1:35) -- Old stepstone (2:53) -- Drinking of the wine (3:17) -- Dedication (5:13)