Title: Ballads & Songs Oa Appalachia Artist: Frank Proffitt Label: Folk Legacy Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 710146000122 Genre: Blues Release Date: 2001-05-08 Number of Discs: 1
Re-issue of Folk Legacy's first album released in 1962 contains the works of traditional North Carolina folk singer/banjo plucker (he played a fretless groundhog hide neck banjo) from whom the song "Tom Dooley" was originally discovered by Frank Warner in 1938. The Kingston Trio later recorded the song & made it a huge hit, and Frank plays it here, using the trio's same version & style.
Tracks: 1.1 Trifling Woman 1.2 Cluck Old Hen 1.3 Morning Fair 1.4 Bonnie James Campbell 1.5 Lord Randall 1.6 Handsome Molly 1.7 Reuben Train 1.8 Tom Dooley [Dula] 1.9 I'm Going Back to North Caroline 1.10 Moonshine 1.11 Rye Whiskey 1.12 I'll Never Get Drunk No More 1.13 Wild Bills Jones 1.14 Gyps of David 1.15 Song of a Lost Hunter 1.16 Sourwood Mountain 1.17 Going Across the Mountain
