Old Love Songs & Ballads from the Big Laurel, North Carolina

Folkways Records – FA 2309

Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1964
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Appalachian Music
[Tracklist]
A1 Pretty Saro (Pretty Sara): Cas Wallin (3:01)
A2 Fine Sally: Cas Wallin (2:17)
A3 Juba: Lee Wallin (0:43)
A4 Neighbor Girl: Lee Wallin (2:14)
A5 Soldier Traveling From the North: Dillard Chandler (3:26)
A6 The Sailor Being Tired: Dillard Chandler (3:08)
A7 Hick's Farewell: Dillard Chandler (4:00)
A8 In Zepo Town: Lisha Shelton (3:24)
A9 Don't You Remember: Lisha Shelton (2:39)
B1 Awake, Awake: Dillard Chandler (4:16)
B2 Mathie Groves: Dillard Chandler (6:14)
B3 Love Has Brought Me to Despair: Berzilla Wallin (2:50)
B4 Johnny Doyle: Berzilla Wallin (3:59)
B5 Conversation With Death: Berzilla Wallin (5:26)
[Credits]
Producer, Recorder, Photographer and Designer: John Cohen, Recorder: Peter Gott
[Notes]
Compiled from field recordings made in 1963, this album offers a view of musical life in the Laurel River region of North Carolina, where dances and "workings"—days of common labor followed by evenings of merriment—were once common. Anecdotes in the liner notes from the singers bring the world of Big Laurel to life.