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Field recordings are an interesting concept: they are historical documents intended to preserve the folklore of their indigenous regions, but they can also be enjoyed as songs to be heard. If they are too polished or "professional" sounding, they may lose their archaic, authentic charm. On the other hand, who wants to hear amateur singers if they can't carry a tune, much less do so with any kind of emotional power? What makes this collection so rewarding is the precarious balance it finds. Amateur musicologists Anne and Frank Warner collected these field recordings across the Atlantic Coast states from 1940 through 1966. There are English, Scottish, and Irish folk songs, blues, spirituals, ballads, work songs, and chants of all types included--none of them intended for commercial release and all of them featuring singers to whom music was a family tradition or a community event or perhaps even an innate power. Many of these songs have become well known since they were recorded--some, such as "Tom Dooley," were basically discovered through the Warners' field work--but it's the lesser-known numbers that really hit home: "shudder stories" sung to scare young children, comic minstrel songs, sea chanteys, and more. The snippets of conversations prove that the Warners respected these people greatly and reveled in their genuineness. For fans of Alan Lomax's fieldwork, this set will be a treasured discovery. --Marc Greilsamer
| ARTIST: | Various Artists |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Appleseed Records |
| FEATURES: | Original recording remastered |
| TYPE: | An overview of the field recordings of traditional American music made by song collectors Anne and Frank Warner along the Eastern Seaboard from 1940 to 1966 - "real deal" folk songs from the source., Field Recordings, Folk & Traditional, Folk Collections, Pop, Traditional Folk, V/a Compilations |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | House Carpenter - Rebecca King Jones, I Went to See My Molly - Lee Monroe Presnell, River of Life - Buna Hicks, Babies in the Wood - Dorothy Howard, I Dropped the Baby - Dorothy Howard, Solas Market - Edith Perrin, Wakes in the Morning - Edith Perrin, Where Did You Get That Hat? - Edith Perrin, Mail Day Blues - J. B. Sutton, Nobody Knows - Sue Thomas, Gilgarrah Mountain (Whiskey in the Jar) - Lena Bourne Fish, Somebody's Waiting for Me - Charles K. "Tink" Tillett, Bony on the Isle of St. Helena - Charles K. "Tink" Tillett, Come Love Come - Eleazar Tillett, Hey, Get Along Josie - Tom Smith, Days of '49 - "Yankee" John Galusha, Springfield Mountain - "Yankee" John Galusha, Jolly Thrasher - Eleazar Tillett, Chimbly Sweep - Rebecca King Jones, Barbara Allen - R.K. Jones, Mohawk Chant, War Chant - Louis Solomon, Lowland Low - Frank Proffitt (TITLE CORRECTION), Skin and Bones - anonymous, Two Little Blackbirds - Elda Blackwood, Uncle Ned - Elda Blackwood, Tommy - Martha Midgett, Hold My Hand Lord Jesus - Sue Thomas, Jolly Roving Tar - Lena Bourne Fish, Castle by the Sea - Lena Bourne Fish, Farewell to Old Bedford - Lee Monroe Presnell, Sometimes I'm in This Country - Lee Monroe Presnell, Top of Mount Zion - Buna Hicks, A Poor Wayfaring Pilgrim - Linzy Hicks, Been to the East - Steve Meekins, Lass of Glenshee - "Yankee" John Galusha, Irish 69th - "Yankee" John Galusha, The Cumberland & The Merrimac - "Yankee" John Galusha, Lonesome Valley - Curt Mann, Grandmama's Advice - Mrs. Wolf, Kiss Me, Oh, I Like It - Edith Perrin, When I Die - Edith Perrin, Young Beham - Roby Monroe Hicks, Poor Ellen Smith - Homer Cornett, Palms of Victory - Linzy Hicks, Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still - Eleazar Tillett & Martha Etheridge, Let's Make a Date - Eleazar Tillett & Martha Etheridge |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 611587103529 |
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Essential Addition To Any Collection This is the first time that material from the Anne and Frank Warner collection has been easily available to the listening public. The Warners collected songs and tunes from singers and players in the Carolina's, New York and New England starting in the 1930's, and the body of material that they brought to the world through their relationships with these tradition bearers forms an important basic framework of folk history. Long hidden away in the Library of Congress, it is at last available for all to enjoy and learn from. Here is where you'll find the original version of "Tom Dooley" (shared by Frank Proffitt) and pure mountain versions of "Whiskey in the Jar" and "Barbara Allen" as well as priceless interview segments with Proffitt and others. These selections were exquisitely chosen, and beautifully remastered and recorded. Whether you have a passing aquaintaince or a deep love of vernacular folk music, put this CD into your collection today.