FTX-908 - CUMBERLAND GAP

Maud's Appalachian Collection -2-

Dr Maud Karpeles accompanied Cecil Sharp when he collected in the mountains during the First World War. He wrote down the music and she the words. A selection of their findings were published in FOLKSONGS OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS. In 1950 and 1955 she returned to record some of the people & their relations who were still singing and playing. Vol.2 contains Virginia ballads and dance tunes with 5-string banjo, demonstration of banjo tunings and family reminiscences. Included is a special message from the blind Anglophile ballad-singer, Horton Barker.

1. Message "To the people of England" - Horton Barker, Chilhowie, Va - 0'44"

2. THE OLD MAN AND HIS WIFE (The Farmer's Curst Wife FSSA #40) - (as previous) - 2'41"

3. HARES ON THE MOUNTAINS (learned from Sharp's English collection) - (as previous) - 1'14"

4. PRETTY SALLY (The Brown Girl #44) - (as previous) - 4'52"

5. LITTLE BOY HUGH (FSSA #31) - Dol Small, Nellysford, Nelson Co., Va - 1'53"

6. JACK HE WENT A-SAILING (FSSA #65) - Mrs.Victoria Morris, Mount Fair, Albemarle Co - 2'49"

7. THE SEVEN SLEEPERS (Earl Brand #4) - (as previous) - 0'57"

8. TWO OLD CROWS (FSSA #11) - Mrs Oscar Allen, Lynchburg, Va - 1'20"

9. JOHN RANDOLPH (Lord Randal #7) - (as previous) - 0'32"

10. ROCK-A-BYE BABY - (as previous) - 0'30"

11. DOWN IN THE MEADOW - (as previous) - 0'30"

12. WELL MET, WELL MET (The House Carpenter #35) - (as previous) - 3'19"

13. THE TWO BROTHERS (FSSA #12) - Florence Fitzgerald (Mrs J Puckett), Afton, Nelson Co. Va - 1'50"

14. THE CUCKOO (FSSA #140) - (as previous) - 1'23"

15. JIMMY RANDALL (Molly Vaughan #50) - (as previous) - 1'48"

16. PAT DO THIS AND PAT DO THAT - (as previous) - 0'33"

17. THE FARMER'S CURST WIFE (FSSA #40) - Mrs J.L.Leila Yowell, Charlottesville, Albemarle Co - 2'00"

18. THE PAPER OF PINS (FSSA #92) - Mrs Matty S.Dameron, Stuarts Draft, Va - 1'02"

19. I HAD A LITTLE SWEETHEART (THE YOUNG MAN WHO DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO COURT) - (as previous) - 1'13"

20. Talk with Maud about recording, learning her songs, banjo-picking etc. - (as previous) - 3'06"

21. TURLY-URLY (Jennie Jenkins #260) with talk after first verse - (as previous) - 1'35"

22. MISSISSIPPI SAWYER - C.B.Wohlford (banjo), Marion Co (gives tuning of open strings first) - 1'54"

23. CUMBERLAND GAP - (as previous) - 1'47"

24. THE MAID ON THE SHORE - Mrs. Carrie Grover (of Newfoundland), rec. Berwyn, Pennsylvania - 2'34"

25. Talk about her mother, Eliza, spinning and the value of her own song collection - (as previous) - 2'00"

26. GEORGIE - (as previous) - 2'47"

27. DIED FOR LOVE - (as previous) - 1'34"

Recorded by Maud Karpeles 1955. Edited by Peter Kennedy and first published on Folktrax cassettes 1976.