Old Love Songs & Ballads From The Big Laurel North- Old Love Songs & Ballads / Various
Compiled from field recordings made in 1963, this album offers a view of musical life in the Laurel River region of North Carolina, where dances and "workings"-days of common labor followed by evenings of merriment-were once common. Anecdotes in the liner notes from the singers bring the world of Big Laurel to life.
Tracklist:
- Pretty Saro (Pretty Sara)
- Fine Sally
- Juba
- Neighbor Girl
- Soldier Traveling From The North
- The Sailor Being Tired
- Hick's Farewell
- In Zepo Town
- Don't You Remember
- Awake, Awake
- Mathie Groves
- Love Has Brought Me To Despair
- Johnny Doyle
- Conversation With Death
Compiled from field recordings made in 1963, this album offers a view of musical life in the Laurel River region of North Carolina, where dances and "workings"-days of common labor followed by evenings of merriment-were once common. Anecdotes in the liner notes from the singers bring the world of Big Laurel to life.
Tracklist:
- Pretty Saro (Pretty Sara)
- Fine Sally
- Juba
- Neighbor Girl
- Soldier Traveling From The North
- The Sailor Being Tired
- Hick's Farewell
- In Zepo Town
- Don't You Remember
- Awake, Awake
- Mathie Groves
- Love Has Brought Me To Despair
- Johnny Doyle
- Conversation With Death