SORM Playlist #14-34: Music From The Mountain State
(airing the week starting 08-20-14)
West Virginia is rich in traditional music. I have traveled to Elkins each Summer for the past 28 years to the Augusta Workshops. In turn I have become very fond of the music of the Mountain State. Here are a few of my favorite artists, songs and tunes..
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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle /
Smithsonian-Folkways
Alan Jabbour-Bertram Levy-James Reed / “Stony Point” / A Henry
Reed Reunion / Self-Produced
Molly O’Brien / “River’s Invitation” / Things I Gave Away /
Sugar Hill
Dave Bing & Dwight Diller / “Waynesboro” / In England / Yew Pine
Tim O’Brien / “Crooked Road” / Chameleon / Proper-Howdy Skies
Little Jimmy Dickins / “Woman’s Been After Man Ever Since” /
Always Lift Him Up / Proper
Ernie Carpenter / “Elk River Blues” / Old-Time Fiddle Tunes
from the Elk River Country / Augusta Heritage
Val Mindel & Emily Miller / “Weepimg Willow” / Close to Home /
Self-Produced
The Critten Hollow String Band / “Pretty Little Dog” / The Dulcimer
Collection / Yodel-Ay-Hee
John Lilly / “Broken Moon” / Broken Moon / Self-Produced
Alan Jabbour-Bertram Levy-James Reed / “Ebeneezer” / A Henry
Reed Reunion / Self-Produced
Robert C. Heyer / “The Miner’s Story” / One Day / Table Rock
Billy Edd Wheeler / “Coal Tattoo” / Country Essentials / Self
Kathy Mattea / “West Virginia Mine Disaster” / Calling Me
Home / Sugar Hill
The Klines / “The Spider Song” / Moving Mountains / Fallen Mountain
Kate Long / “Who’ll Watch the Homeplace” / Pieces of Heart / Edna
The Iron Leg Boys / “Rattle Down the Acorns” / The Iron Leg Boys /
Skull City Old-Time Records
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
Smithsonian-Folkways