Mountain Music of Kentucky, by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Mountain Music of Kentucky

by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

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1.	Bill Cornett - Old Age Pension Blues 02:02	buy track
2.	Bill Cornett - Hook and Line 01:04	buy track
3.	Bill Cornett - John Henry 04:01	buy track
4.	Bill Cornett - Pretty Polly 02:56	buy track
5.	Bill Cornett - Old Reuben 01:42	buy track
6.	J.D. Cornett - Spring of '65 02:30	buy track
7.	J.D. Cornett - Sally in the Garden 00:33	buy track
8.	J.D. Cornett - Barbara Allen 00:32	buy track
9.	Old Regular Baptist Church (KY) - When We Shall Meet 06:13	buy track
10.	Old Regular Baptist Church (KY) - Amazing Grace 06:30	buy track
11.	Roscoe Holcomb - Across the Rocky Mountain 03:45	buy track
12.	Roscoe Holcomb - Graveyard Blues 02:28	buy track
13.	Roscoe Holcomb - Cripple Creek 01:01	buy track
14.	Roscoe Holcomb - True Love 03:46	buy track
15.	Marion Sumner - Sally in the Garden 00:51	buy track
16.	Marion Sumner - Lost Indian 00:54	buy track
17.	Marion Sumner - Hollow Poplar 00:59	buy track
18.	George Davis - The Death of the Blue Eagle 01:55	buy track
19.	Willie Chapman - Little Birdie 01:21	buy track
20.	Willie Chapman - Lost Indian 01:01	buy track
21.	Willie Chapman - Jaw Bone 00:56	buy track
22.	Willie Chapman - Bunker's Hill 00:42	buy track
23.	Willie Chapman - Cacklin' Hen 00:51	buy track
24.	Willie Chapman - Julie Ann 01:12	buy track
25.	Bill Cornett - Born in Old Kentucky 02:23	buy track
26.	Bill Cornett - Buck Creek Girls 01:02	buy track
27.	Bill Cornett - Sweet Willie 01:56	buy track
28.	Bill Cornett - Cluck Old Hen 01:25	buy track
29.	Roscoe Holcomb - Coney Island (Coney Isle) 01:44	buy track
30.	Roscoe Holcomb - Baby Let Your Hair Roll Down 02:06	buy track
31.	Roscoe Holcomb - Wayfaring Stranger 03:09	buy track
32.	Roscoe Holcomb - Stingy Woman 02:01	buy track
33.	Roscoe Holcomb - East Virginia 03:30	buy track
34.	Roscoe Holcomb - Single Girl 01:56	buy track
35.	Roscoe Holcomb - Black Eyed Suzy 01:27	buy track
36.	Roscoe Holcomb - Hills of Mexico 02:55	buy track
37.	Martha Hall - Foreign Lander 00:52	buy track
38.	Martha Hall - Kitty Alone 01:17	buy track
39.	Martha Hall - Young and Tender Ladies 00:42	buy track
40.	Granville Bowling - Charlie's Neat 00:46	buy track
41.	Granville Bowling - Cotton Eyed Joe 00:42	buy track
42.	Granville Bowling - Little Sunshine 00:52	buy track
43.	Granville Bowling - Wild Bill Jones 01:43	buy track
44.	Holiness Church - Great Speckled Bird 01:34	buy track
45.	Holiness Church - Clap and Shout 01:30	buy track
46.	Holiness Church - Cry from the Cross 02:35	buy track
47.	Holiness Church - Clap, Shout and Shriek 01:26	buy track
48.	Mr. and Mrs. John Sams - Wagoner's Lad 02:33	buy track
49.	Mr. and Mrs. John Sams - The Absentee 01:54	buy track
50.	Mr. and Mrs. John Sams - The Coo-Coo (Coo-Coo Bird) 01:20	buy track
51.	James Crase - Marthis Campbell 01:29	buy track
52.	James Crase - Sally Goodin' 01:41	buy track
53.	James Crase - Fiddler a Dram 02:13	buy track
54.	James Crase - Fox Chase 02:28	buy track
55.	James Crase - Old Joe Clark 02:26	buy track
56.	James Crase - Fire on the Mountain 01:44	buy track
57.	James Crase - Ways of the World 01:20	buy track
58.	James Crase - Inch Along 01:31	buy track
59.	James Crase - Skip to My Lou 01:57	buy track
60.	Lee Sexton - St. Louis Blues 01:43	buy track
61.	Lee Sexton - Pretty Polly 02:14	buy track
62.	Lee Sexton - Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss 00:52	buy track
63.	Lee Sexton - Fox Chase 00:58	buy track
64.	Martin Young and Corbett Grigsby - Ruby 02:05	buy track
65.	Martin Young and Corbett Grigsby - No Letter in the Mail 02:33	buy track
66.	Martin Young and Corbett Grigsby - Pretty Fair Miss in the Garden 05:20	buy track
67.	Martin Young and Corbett Grigsby - John Henry 01:12	buy track
68.	Martin Young and Corbett Grigsby - Rocky Island 01:57	buy track

about

Originally issued as a single LP in 1960, Mountain Music of Kentucky was praised as "the greatest Kentucky record ever issued and one of the greatest records in the entire literature of American folk song" (San Francisco Chronicle 1960). This much expanded compilation features some of the outstanding traditional musicians of the twentieth century with two full hours of performances (60 minutes previously unreleased), new notes, and many photographs by John Cohen.

"One of the greatest records in the entire literature of American folk song." — San Francisco Chronicle.

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released January 1, 1996

John Cohen - Recorder, Field Worker, Producer, Liner Notes
David Glasser - Mastering Engineer
Carla Borden - Liner Notes Editor
Visual Dialogue - Designer

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