Research Catalog

Title

Old-time Smoky Mountain music : 34 historic songs, ballads, and instrumentals recorded in the Great Smoky Mountains by "song catcher" Joseph S. Hall.

Publication

Gatlinburg, TN : Great Smoky Mountains Association, 2010.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Hall, Joseph S.
• Olson, Ted.
• Montgomery, Michael.
• Cave, Kent.
• Kemp, Steve.
• Fleenor, John W.

Description

1 audio disc (80 min.) : digital, mono; 4 3/4 in. +

Subject

• Old-time music
• Folk music > Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
• Folk music > United States

Note

• An arrangement of historic songs, ballads, and instrumentals recorded in the Great Smoky Mountains.
• Compact disc.
• Accompanying pamphlet contains two biographical essays: "Joseph S. Hall: Smoky Mountain song catcher," by Michael Montgomery, and "The real music of these mountains," by Ted Olson; biographical notes and lyrics included for each song.

Event (note)

• Recorded in 1939.

Contents

My home is in the Smoky Mountain (John Hannah) (3:11) -- Down in the willow garden (Bessie Rabb) (2:26) -- Bonaparte's retreat (Willis & Dexter Bumgarner) (2:20) -- Come, all you young ladies (Myrtle Conner) (1:57) -- I started out a-courting (Jack Johnson) (2:37) -- Sourwood mountain (Cataloochee Trio) (0:43) -- The ramshackle shack (Bill Moore and Vic Peterson) (1:51) -- Going down this road feeling bad (John Davis and Shorty Smith) (2:29) -- Kitty Wells (Myrtle Conner) (2:55) -- Crying Holy unto the Lord (Bill Moore's Quartet) (1:41) -- Unidentified guitar playing ("Probably Bill Moore") (1:40) -- My curly-headed baby (Carl Messer) (2:11) -- The girl I love don't pay me no mind (John Hannah) (2:39) -- John Henry (Leatherman Brothers) (2:38) -- Cackling hen (Bill Moore, guitar; Paul Buchanan, guitar; Hardy Crisp, fiddle) (2:06) That's how I got my start (Bill Moore) (1:35) Don't forget me, little darling (Clarence Sutton) (3:00) -- Pretty little miss (Myrtle Conner) (1:35) -- Chinese breakdown (Herman Smith and David Proffitt) (2:43) -- Mule skinner blues (Unnamed Company 15 members) (2:04) -- Ticklish Rubin (Jim Sutton) (1:52) -- The Big Bend killing (Helen Gunter) (1:41) -- Polly put the kettle on (Willis and Dexter Bumgarner) (1:42) -- Conversation with death (Zeb and Winfred Hannah) (3:33) -- Paper of pins (Myrtle Conner) (2:12) -- Boston girl (John Hannah) (3:06) -- The dying cowboy (Clarence Sutton) (2:31) -- Cripple Creek (Chub Karns, Francis Lum) (2:10) -- Ground hog (Unnamed Company 15 members) (2:16) -- Up on Big Pigeon (Boyd Strickland) (1:52) -- John Henry (unidentified performers) (0:48) -- Driving down the highway (Robert Ray) (2:33) -- Little rosewood casket (Myrtle Conner) (2:05) -- On top of Old Smoky (Betty Messer) (1:31).

LCCN

200923250111

OCLC

• ocn696606798
• 696606798
• SCSB-13609713

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries