Traditional Appalachian Songs and Tunes

Artista: Smith, Hobart

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: FKL

Catalogo: 17

Faixas: 1.1 Soldier’s Joy
1.2 Ped and Awl
1.3 The Great Titanic
1.4 Black Annie
1.5 Sally Ann
1.6 Chinquapin Pie
1.7 Last Chance
1.8 John Greer’s Tune
1.9 Short Life in Trouble
1.10 The Devil and the Farmer’s Wife
1.11 Soldier’s Joy
1.12 Sitting on Top of the World
1.13 Stormy Rose the Ocean
1.14 Bonaparte’s Retreat
1.15 Cuckoo Bird
1.16 Columbus Stockade Blues
1.17 Cindy
1.18 The Girl I Left Behind Me
1.19 John Hardy
1.20 Meet Me in Rose Time, Rosie
1.21 Shady Grove
1.22 Sourwood Mountain
1.23 K.C. Blues
1.24 Uncloudy Day

Hobart was surely one of the most important traditional banjo pickers ever recorded, a player whose music strongly influenced (and inspired) many revival banjoists. He was also a straight-ahead singer of old-time songs and ballads, sometimes with guitar accompaniment. This album was recorded at WFMT in Chicago while Hobart was performing at a festival in that city, one of his few excursions out of his native Blue Ridge Mountains. For anyone interested in traditional American 5-string banjo styles, this is an essential recording.