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Ever Since We've Known It: More North Carolina Mountain Singing
Ever Since We've Known It: More North Carolina Mountain Singing
Ever Since We've Known It: More North Carolina Mountain Singing

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Ever Since We've Known It: More North Carolina Mountain Singing

Death Is Not The End

DEATH051

Cassette $16.50
CD $16.50
  • Available on cassette or CD
  • Curated by Derek Piotr
  • Assortment of archival recordings taking in Child Ballads, bawdy songs, play-party tunes, and old-time family singing

Description

Folklorist Derek Piotr continues to excavate North Carolina mountain songs, presenting an assortment of archival recordings taking in Child Ballads, bawdy songs, play-party tunes, and old-time family singing - with a further focus on overlooked star Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill, of Elk Park, NC.

Tracks 1 and 9 recorded by Herbert Halpert near Morganton, North Carolina, April 19, 1939.

Tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 recorded by Herbert Halpert in Elk Park, North Carolina, April 12, 1939.

Track 4 recorded by Marshall Ward in Banner Elk, ca. 1979, transferred from analogue tape by Derek Piotr.

Curated by Derek Piotr.

Photograph of Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill courtesy of Elizabeth Gwyn.

Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Mrs. Sabra Bare Hampton - Bolenkin
  • 2 Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill - Old Fool
  • 3 Frank Bare - Katie Morley
  • 4 Marshall Ward - Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
  • 5 Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill - Down in the Low Green Valley (Jealous Lover)
  • 6 Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill and Ben Dugger - Cindy
  • 7 Mrs. Lloyd Bare Hagie - Omie Wise
  • 8 Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill and Mrs. Lloyd Bare Hagie - Groundhog
  • 9 Mrs. Sabra Bare Hampton and Oscar Hampton - Partridge in a Pear Tree
  • 10 Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill - Jim Blake
  • 11 Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill - Paper of Pins
  • 12 Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill - The House Carpenter
  • 13 Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill - George Collins
  • 14 Mrs. Ethel Turbyfill Bare - As I Went Out One Morning Fair
  • 15 Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill - Skip to my Lou
  • 16 Mrs. Lloyd Bare Hagie and Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill - Young Farmer