Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Smoky Mountain Ballads - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Re-issue of Folk Legacy's first album released in 1962 contains the works of traditional North Carolina folk singer/banjo plucker (he played a fretless groundhog hide neck banjo) from whom the song InchTom DooleyInch was originally discovered by Frank Warner in 1938. The Kingston Trio later recorded the song & made it a huge hit, and Frank plays it here, using the trio's same version & style. Album Tracks 1. Trifling Woman 2. Cluck Old Hen 3. Morning Fair 4. Bonnie James Campbell 5. Lord Randall 6. Handsome Molly 7. Reuben Train 8. Tom Dooley [Dula] 9. I'm Going Back to North Caroline 10. Moonshine 11. Rye Whiskey 12. I'll Never Get Drunk No More 13. Wild Bills Jones 14. Gyps of David 15. Song of a Lost Hunter 16. Sourwood Mountain 17. Going Across the Mountain

One of the fathers of modern bluegrass, the late great Ralph Stanley always preferred to call it Inchold-time mountain music.Inch No matter what you call it, this was one of Ralph's final albums as he wanted to keep alive some truly classic old numbers from long before his time. Album Tracks 1. Little Maggie 2. Dad S Old Rocky Field 3. Train 45 4. Short Life of Trouble 5. Gold Watch and Chain 6. Pretty Little Indian 7. Hemlocks and Primroses 8. Rocky Island 9. The Orphan Girl 10. Pretty Polly

Album Tracks 1. Over in the Gloryland 2. Beautiful Star of Bethlehem 3. Oh, Death 4. There'll Be None on the Other Side 5. Mother's Not Dead 6. Jesus Savior Pilot Me 7. Travelling the Highway Home 8. I've Just Seen the Rock of Ages 9. Amazing Grace 10. What a Price 11. Are You Afraid to Die 12. I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)