North Carolina Banjo Collection

North Carolina Banjo Collection

North Carolina Banjo Collection
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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-03-10
Music Label: Rounder Select
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Georgia Buck - Odell Thompson
  2. Corinna - Babe Reid
  3. Going Down The Road Feeling Bad - Etta Baker
  4. Low Baked A Hoe Cake - Libba Cotten
  5. Snow A Little, Rain A Little - John Snipes
  6. Fox Chase - Dink Roberts
  7. Going To Write Me A Letter - Ola Belle Reed
  8. The Worried Blues - Samantha Bumgarner
  9. Mr. Garfield - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
  10. Cleveland's Marching To The White House - Bertie Dickens
  11. The Old Doctor That Fell In The Well - Marvin Gaster
  12. Hello Coon - Walter Raleigh Babson
  13. Sugar Babe - Scotty Wiseman
  14. Reuben's Train - Doc Watson
  15. Rambling Hobo - Gaither Carlton
  16. Cumberland Gap - Frank Proffit
  17. Roustabout - Fred Cockerham
  18. Cotton Eyed Joe - Stella Kimble
  19. John Henry - Tommy Jarrell
  20. Lost Indian - Kyle Creed
  21. Cripple Creek - Charlie Lowe
  22. Under The Double Eagle - Carlie Marion
Music CD 2
  1. Blue Ridge Mountain Home - Glenn Davis
  2. Little Log Cab In The Lane - Kelly Sears
  3. Royal Clog - Ernest Helton
  4. Arkansas Traveler/Old Back Joe/Sweetheart, Would You Care? - Clay Everhart
  5. Babtist Shout - Frank Jenkins
  6. American And Spanish Fandango - Smith And Allgood
  7. Shuffle, Feet, Shuffle - Fisher Hendley
  8. Missouri Waltz - J.G. & Jerry Waye Britt
  9. Italian Waltz - Carl Nance
  10. There'll Come A Time - Charlie Poole
  11. The Man Who Wrote 'Home Sweet Home' Never Was A Married Man - Mack Woolbright
  12. Cotton Mill Blues - Wilmer Watts
  13. Come Bathe In That Beautiful Pool - Dock Walsh
  14. Biscuits - Arnold Watson
  15. Whoa, Mule, Whoa - Hobbie Whitener
  16. I Left My Old Home In The Mountains - George Pegram
  17. Short Life And Its Trouble - Wade Mainer
  18. Nancy Rowland - Snuffy Jenkins
  19. Railroad - A.C. Overton
  20. The Nut Medley: Chinquapin Hunting/Acorn Hill Breakdown - Carroll Best

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Free Music Review: Essential for Every Banjo Player
Hit: 5 Stars

Every banjoist ought to have these CDs. Then again, everyone ought to become a banjoist, or at least one in every home. The selections form a nice picture of the history and development of banjo playing in one of the most banjoeyed areas of the country, North Carolina.

Master banjoist, producer, folklorist, and fashion plate Bob Carlin provides a very serious set of notes and introduction to the CDs and a very nice order to help illustrate the history. Like his books on music--I would recommend his recent book on Carolina Piedmont string bands in which one can see pictures of many of the performers on these CDs and follow the changing context of the music--Carlin tries to present the most information, the most music, and let it talk, without drawing too many conclusions and conjecturs. He has the mark of a man who knows that when you really know something, you know how little we all know.

The first six tunes on the first side are special to me, as Carlin begins with six African American banjo players from North Carolina. They are first, even though the earliest one of these recordings was made in teh 1950s, as part of a statement about the African American origins of the banjo in general, but also of North Carolina banjoing in both clawhammer and finger styles. I particularly love the work here by Dink Roberts, my favorite banjo player.

While the clawhammer and other down picking word on the first CD are important to my ears and my style, I am most impressed with the recordings of finger picking styles on the second CD. I haven't seen or heard much of that kind of banjo playing before. Current old time music banjoists tend to be pretty glued to clawhammer. If they do finger styles it is often the older more archaic styles favored by Dock Boggs or Charlie Poole. Yet, on the second CD we see the rise in both virtuosity and musicality and countriness and bluesiness of finger style banjo in the Carolinas starting from work that was just beyond that of the 19th Century Classic banjoists, to work that was ready for the next step, taken by a Carolina banjoist named Earl Scruggs: BLUEGRASS.

As I have said, this CD set is nice wonderful and listenable music like all banjo music. I realize I might be prejudiced being a man who has gotten 4 banjos in the last 5 years. But then if you listen to this, you might get prejudiced too and get you a banjo or two!
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