Description
These recordings are a small sample of the bread-and-butter music-making of Charlie Higgins (fiddle and banjo), Wade Ward (banjo and fiddle), and Dale Poe (guitar), three accomplished old-time musicians from Grayson County in southwestern Virginia. A couple of times a month for years, they would huddle together on the flat bed of a pickup truck and play locally familiar tunes to draw in customers for a country auction service. These recordings, made by Peter Hoover in Charlie and Wade’s living rooms in 1959, document the facility and ease, and broad scope, that they brought to their repertoire.
Track List
FRC501 – Uncle Charlie Higgins,
Wade Ward & Dale Poe
- Little Maggie (0:47)
- Paddy on the Turnpike (2:14)
- Cumberland Gap (1:58)
- Red Apple Rag (2:34)
- Blackberry Blossom (3:03)
- Monkey on a String (1:40)
- John Hardy (1:39)
- June Apple (2:04)
- Soldiers Joy (1:56)
- Old Joe Clarke (1:50)
- Charlie’s Breakdown (2:49)
- Jimmy Sutton (1:31)
- Jimmy Sutton (1:31)
- East Tennessee Blues (1:56)
- Fortune (1:50)
- Katy Hill (Piney Woods) (2:30)
- White House Blues (3:31)
- Chicken Reel (1:31)
- Black Mountain Rag (2:38)
- Silly Bill (1:53)
- Sally Ann (2:20)
- John Henry (3:57)
- Sally Goodin (1:26)
- The Eighth of January (1:08)
- Down in the Willow Garden (2:05)
- Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad (4:08)
- Train 45 (0:51)
