Frank Proffitt - Ballads & Songs Oa Appalachia - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A native of Beech Mountain in the northwest corner of North Carolina, singer and banjo player Frank Proffitt's tremendous repertoire inspired musicians interested in old time music. This collection features local ballads, and it's liner notes contain copious quotations and anecdotes from Proffitt. Album Tracks 1. Beaver Dam Road 2. Cindy 3. Bo Lamkin 4. Julie Jenkins 5. George Collins 6. Ninety and Nine 7. Down in the Valley 8. Baby-O 9. Old Abe 10. Poor Ellen Smith 11. Dan Doo 12. John Hardy 13. Ground Hog 14. Johnson Boys

Not long before Frank died in 1965, we recorded more of his traditional songs, plus a couple that he had written himself. A number of these are included here, accompanied by guitar, dulcimer, or Frank's home-made fretless banjo. Album Tracks 1. Poor Man 2. Lord Lovel 3. Shull's Mills 4. Poor Soldier 5. Blackberry Wine 6. Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down 7. Will the Circle Be Unbroken 8. I'm a Long Time Travelling Here Below 9. Got No Sugar Baby Now 10. Man of Constant Sorrow 11. Little Birdie 12. Single Girl 13. Everybody's Got to Be Tried 14. Oh, Lord, What a Morning 15. Little White Robe 16. Shake Hands with Mother Again

Called InchThe Minstrel of the Appalachians,Inch banjo player Bascom Lamar Lunsford performs a cross section of his sizeable repertoire, which contains at least three hundred songs. These songs include English ballads, topical songs, and 19th century popular songs incorporated into the North Carolina mountain tradition. Album Tracks 1. Swannanoa Tunnel 2. Mr. Garfield 3. Jennie Jenkins 4. Little Margaret 5. Banks of the Ohio 6. Springfield Mountain 7. The Death of Queen Jane 8. Mole in the Ground