Smoky Mountain Ballads

Artista: Lunsford, Bascom Lamar

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: FOWY

Catalogo: 2040

Faixas: 1.1 Swannanoa Tunnel
1.2 Mr. Garfield
1.3 Jennie Jenkins
1.4 Little Margaret
1.5 Banks of the Ohio
1.6 Springfield Mountain
1.7 The Death of Queen Jane
1.8 Mole in the Ground

Called “The Minstrel of the Appalachians,” 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.