VA - Ballads and Songs of the Blue Ridge Mountains - Persistence and Change (1968)

Stemming from a want to preserve the dwindling unique oral traditions of the Blue Ridge Mountain back-country region, Eric Davidson, Paul Newman and Caleb Finch performed field recordings of songs that exemplified the evolution of ballads in the region, creating an anthology of music that characterized the musical mountain traditions. Originating from folk music of the British Isles, many of the songs are performed with little or no instrumental accompaniment. These beautiful archaic folk melodies have retained their roots in the ballad and lament tradition, sung here by both men and women (traditionally ballads were sung only by women) with occasional lively banjo accompaniments.


Tracklist:

1. Paul Jones - Hanging Of Georgie [01:32]
2. Sarah Hawkes - Returning Sweetheart [01:55]
3. Granny Porter and Wade Ward - Barbry Allen [02:41]
4. Paul Jones - Young Men And Maids [02:18]
5. Paul Jones - Green Willow Tree [04:18]
6. Sarah Hawkes - Ho Lilly Ho [02:13]
7. Kilby Reeves - Walkin' In The Parlor [01:21]
8. Sarah Hawkes - Little Sparrow [01:49]
9. Kilby Reeves - County Jail [01:47]
10. Aunt Polly Jones - The War Is A Raging [01:21]
11. Glen Smith - Pig In A Pen [02:27]
12. Paul Jones - Roving Gambler [02:47]
13. Ivor Melton and Glen Neaves - Pretty Polly [02:07]
14. Spud Gravely - George Allen [01:15]
15. Hobart Delp - Roving Gambler [02:26]
16. Russ Vass - Ten Thousand Miles [03:19]
17. Glen Neaves - 1809 [03:09]
18. Ivor Melton and Glen Neaves - Little Maggie [03:34]
19. Glen Neaves - Death Of The Lawson Family [01:52]
20. Ruby Vass - Lonesome Day [02:11]
21. Paul Jones and Cliff Evans - Budded Roses [02:29]
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VA - Ballads and Songs of the Blue Ridge Mountains
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