Just Around the Bend: Survival and Revival in Southern Banjo Sounds - Mike Seeger's Last Documentary

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Includes an 80-page book with extensive notes. 110 minutes of music and 110 minute DVD. All US orders will be shipped USPS media mail.

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2.	Riley Baugus - Pretty Polly 03:45	buy track
3.	Brien Fain - Darlin' Nellie Gray 02:10	buy track
4.	Brien Fain - Long Lonesome Road 03:05	buy track
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6.	Debbie Grim Yates - Billy Wilson 02:03	buy track
7.	Tina Steffey - Cumberland Gap 02:03	buy track
8.	Marsha Bowman Todd - Hop Light Ladies 03:09	buy track
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10.	Marsha Bowman Todd - Richmond 02:29	buy track
11.	Marsha Bowman Todd - Soldier's Joy 02:10	buy track
12.	Jerry Adams - Sandy River 01:43	buy track
13.	Jerry Adams - Country Blues 04:44	buy track
14.	Peter Gott - Rabbit Song 01:22	buy track
15.	Peter Gott - Whistle Blow (version 1) 03:22	buy track
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19.	Peter Gott - Liza Jane 03:32	buy track
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21.	Frank George - Liza Jane 01:47	buy track
22.	David Reed - Preacher and the Bear 01:03	buy track
23.	Joe Ayers - Old Jawbone 02:18	buy track
24.	Joe Ayers - Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin' Bed 01:45	buy track
25.	Rhiannon Giddens - Georgia Buck 03:13	buy track
26.	Rhiannon Giddens - Cripple Creek 01:26	buy track
27.	George Gibson - Wild Bill Jones 04:21	buy track
28.	George Gibson - Story of Morgan's March 01:11	buy track
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30.	George Gibson - Big Stone Gap 02:02	buy track
31.	John Haywood - John Henry 01:16	buy track
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38.	Jesse Wells - Whitesburg 01:59	buy track
39.	Jesse Wells - Going Across the Sea 02:12	buy track
40.	Robert Montgomery - Going Across the Sea 02:49	buy track
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about

Mike Seeger, along with his wife Alexia Smith and filmmaker Yasha Aginsky, trekked through the Appalachian Mountains in 2009 to produce this extraordinary glimpse of the vigor and diversity of the region’s old-time banjo artistry. When Seeger passed away later that same year, the project took on the added importance of paying tribute to this renowned musician, folklorist, and documentarian of the people. Just Around the Bend: Survival and Revival in Southern Banjo Sounds captures many banjo lineages, styles, and techniques—performed by 19 virtuosic banjo players—in a package of two CDs compiled by Bob Carlin and a DVD by Aginsky. 110 minutes of music in 2 CDs; 80-page book with extensive notes, 110 minute DVD.

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released September 20, 2019

CD Credits

Recorded by Mike Seeger January 10–21, May 13, and June 3–14, 2009
Initial mix by Bob Carlin
Final mix and mastering by Charlie Pilzer at AirShow Mastering, and Bob Carlin

DVD Credits

DVD directed, filmed, and edited by Yasha Aginsky, assisted by Slava Basovich
Produced by Yasha Aginsky and Mike Seeger, assisted by Alexia Smith
Sound recorded by Mike Seeger and Slava Basovich
Sound mixed by Daniel Olmsted
Image colorized by Gary Coates
DVD Authoring by Henniger Media Services
Notes by Alexia Smith
Song notes by Bob Carlin and Alexia Smith
Cover artwork by Jennifer Cox

Photos by Slava Basovich
Map by John Gilkes
Smithsonian Folkways executive producers: Huib Schippers and John Smith
Production Manager: Mary Monseur
Production assistant: Chloe Joyner and Kate Harrington
Editorial assistance by Carla Borden
Art direction, design, and layout by Jackson Foster, The I.D. Entity®

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