Masters of old-time country autoharp.

Format Audio (Streaming)
Publication InfoWashington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, ℗2006.
Description1 online resource (71 min.)
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?GLMU;367282
Subjects
Autoharp music.
Old-time music.

Portion of title Autoharp
Contents Stoney's waltz (Ernest Stoneman) -- Sweet Marie (Neriah and Kenneth Benfield) -- John Henry (Kilby Snow) -- May I sleep in your barn tonight, Mister? (Kilby Snow) -- She'll be coming around the mountain (Kilby Snow with Wade Ward, banjo) -- Sweet sunny south (Ernest Stoneman) -- Bile 'em cabbage down (Ernest Stoneman) -- Marching through Georgia (Ernest Stoneman) -- Wreck of number nine (Ernest Stoneman) -- Ella's grave (Neriah Benfield with Kenneth Benfield, guitar) -- Waltz (Neriah Benfield) -- Old Joe Clark (Kenneth Benfield) -- Shortening bread (Kenneth Benfield) -- Cindy (Kilby Snow) -- Budded roses (Kilby Snow) -- Flop-eared mule (Kilby Snow) -- Home sweet home (Kilby Snow) -- Springtime again little Annie (Ernest Stoneman) -- Great reaping day (Ernest Stoneman) -- Weeping willow tree (Kenneth and Neriah Benfield) -- I'm alone, all alone (Ernest Stoneman with Mike Seeger, banjo) -- All I got's gone (Ernest Stoneman) -- Benfield hoedown (Idaho girl) (Neriah Benfield) -- Bonaparte's retreat (Kenneth Benfield) -- Chinese breakdown (Neriah Benfield with Kenneth Benfield, guitar) -- Wildwood flower (Kilby Snow with Mike Seeger, guitar) -- Tragic romance (Kilby Snow with Mike Seeger, banjo, and Hazel Dickens, guitar) -- Close by (Kilby Snow) -- Way down in the country (Kenneth Benfield) -- Golden slippers (Kenneth Benfield) -- Lights in the valley (Kenneth and Neriah Benfield) -- Chicken reel (Kilby Snow) -- Precious jewel (Kilby Snow) -- Muleskinner blues (Kilby Snow) -- Red River Valley (Kilby and Jim Snow) -- Hallelujah side (Ernest Stoneman) -- Jacob's ladder (Kenneth Benfield) -- Ain't going to work tomorrow (Kilby Snow).
General noteMost of these recordings were issued on LP in 1962 on Folkways FA 2365, Mountain music played on autoharp; 14 tracks previously unreleased.
General notePreviously issued as compact disc.
General noteProgram notes in original container insert.
Performer Various artists.
Date/time/place of a event noteAll tracks recorded between 1956 and 1961.
UPC 093074011522

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