Stephen Wade- Across The Amerikee: Showpieces From Coal Camp To Cattle Trail (CD)
Grassroots singers and players throughout the United States have long cultivated their own varieties of recital music. A simple dance tune transforms into a concert masterpiece; a personal plaint becomes emblematic of an era. With banjo and occasional guitar Stephen Wade explores this music made for music's sake. His selections draw from Southern sources as well as Northern interpreters, centering on lyric folksong and old-time instrumentals transmitted, as one of it's older players memorably said, "across the Amerikee."
Tracklist:
- Lost John
- Come On Buddie, Don't You Want To Go
- Chesley Chancey's Cumberland Gap
- Swing And Turn, Jubilee
- Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
- Diamond Joe
- Puncheon Camps
- Hard Head Hardy
- Kc Whistle
- Willie Moore
- Uncle Dave's Fandango
- Goodbye, Old Paint
- Tom Paley's John Henry
- Trouble At The Coal Creek Mines
- Gray Eagle
- Lost John
- Shortenin' Bread
- Reno Factory / Brown Skin Blues
- Sourwood Mountain
- In The Pines
- Cherry Blossom Waltz
Grassroots singers and players throughout the United States have long cultivated their own varieties of recital music. A simple dance tune transforms into a concert masterpiece; a personal plaint becomes emblematic of an era. With banjo and occasional guitar Stephen Wade explores this music made for music's sake. His selections draw from Southern sources as well as Northern interpreters, centering on lyric folksong and old-time instrumentals transmitted, as one of it's older players memorably said, "across the Amerikee."
Tracklist:
- Lost John
- Come On Buddie, Don't You Want To Go
- Chesley Chancey's Cumberland Gap
- Swing And Turn, Jubilee
- Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
- Diamond Joe
- Puncheon Camps
- Hard Head Hardy
- Kc Whistle
- Willie Moore
- Uncle Dave's Fandango
- Goodbye, Old Paint
- Tom Paley's John Henry
- Trouble At The Coal Creek Mines
- Gray Eagle
- Lost John
- Shortenin' Bread
- Reno Factory / Brown Skin Blues
- Sourwood Mountain
- In The Pines
- Cherry Blossom Waltz