Description
(From the collection of Ray Alden)
Fiddler Byard Ray and his banjo picking cousin Obray Ramsey were “discovered” during the folk revival of the 1960s at the Asheville Folk Festival in North Carolina. The time of their discovery coincided with the psychedelic rock period, which led to their music being incorporated in the rock movie western “Zachariah.“ This concert, recorded in NYC, was part of a tour to promote their LP recording “White Lightning,” which used a band of studio musicians. Fortunately for us this lovely concert on this CD featured Obray Ramsey and Byard Ray, accompanied only by guitar, doing home-based traditional songs and instrumentals. – Ray Alden
Additional Notes: Obray Ramsey and Byard Ray
Track List
FRC113 – Obray Ramsey & Byard Ray
- Pretty Polly (4:11)
- I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (4:17)
- Little Margaret (2:46)
- Before I Met You (2:56)
- Brown Eyes (3:01)
- Wildwood Flower (2:45)
- I Feel Like I Gotta Travel On (2:21)
- Long Journey Home (1:39)
- Cumberland Gap (1:50)
- Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms (2:49)
- Cripple Creek (1:48)
- Faded Love (3:12)
- Old Joe Clark (2:04)
- Down the Road (2:06)
- Little Betty Ann (3:07)
- Tennessee Waltz (3:29)
- My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains (2:25)
- Short Life of Trouble (3:07)
- Cheyenne (3:14)
- New River Train (3:03)
- Handsome Molly (2:18)
- Billy in the Low Ground (3:53)
- Columbus Stockade Blues (3:19)
- Little Maggie (2:57)
- Home Sweet Home and Silver Bells (2:39)
- All the Good Times Are Past and Gone (2:42)
