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Compiled from field recordings made in 1963, this album offers a view of musical life in the Laurel River region of North Carolina, where dances and InchworkingsInch-days of common labor followed by evenings of merriment-were once common. Anecdotes in the liner notes from the singers bring the world of Big Laurel to life. Album Tracks 1. Pretty Saro (Pretty Sara) 2. Fine Sally 3. Juba 4. Neighbor Girl 5. Soldier Traveling from the North 6. The Sailor Being Tired 7. Hick's Farewell 8. In Zepo Town 9. Don't You Remember 10. Awake, Awake 11. Mathie Groves 12. Love Has Brought Me to Despair 13. Johnny Doyle 14. Conversation with Death
