Description
The various banjo players on this CD capture both the sound of Alleghany banjo playing, an open, strongly rhythmic style, and the changing music of the times from turn of the century clawhammer to the roots of bluegrass. Most of the recordings were made by Cliff Evans, a local jeweler and guitar player, who recorded a wide variety of local musicians from the 1950’s-1970’s and whose voice you’ll hear occasionally introducing the tunes. Cliff was J.H. Evans’s son and Louis’s nephew. Many thanks to the Evans family for sharing their father’s rich collection. – Lucas Pasley
released March 1, 2017
John Evans (tracks 1-3); Louis Evans (tracks 4-11); Troy Irwin (tracks 12-15); Paul Joines (tracks 16-28); Fred Roupe (tracks 29-31); Ed Atwood (tracks 32-35); Paul Miles (tracks 36-37)
Track List
Old Time Banjo Music of Alleghany County, NC – FRC719
- Old Molly Hare (0:59)
- Sally Ann (1:25)
- Cluck Old Hen (3:07)
- Home Sweet Home (3:08)
- Old Jimmy Sutton (1:03)
- John Hardy (1:24)
- John Henry (2:54)
- Katy Cline (2:08)
- Sally Ann (1:20)
- Sugar Hill (1:28)
- Lonesome Road Blues (2:22)
- Arkansas Traveler (1:18)
- Cindy (1:31)
- Lonesome Road Blues (1:05)
- Unknown (0:45)
- Little Maggie (1:26)
- Backstep Cindy (1:30)
- One-Eyed Sam (2:57)
- Western Country (1:33)
- Poor Ellen Smith (1:04)
- Sally Ann (1:31)
- Whistling Rufus (1:24)
- Cindy (0:32)
- Ebenezer (1:20)
- Run Boy Run (0:46)
- Sugar Hill (1:10)
- Cluck Old Hen (1:28)
- Shoo Fly (1:17)
- Buffalo Gals (1:48)
- Under the Double Eagle (1:44)
- Flop Eared Mule (2:11)
- John Hardy (3:57)
- Lonesome Road Blues (3:58)
- Western Country (3:41)
- Sweet Sunny South (3:47)
- San Antonio Rose (3:05)
- Under the Double Eagle (0:33)
