Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line

Dust-to-Digital – DTD-40

Format: 2 x CD, Album
Country: US
Released: Aug 21, 2015
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style:Appalachian Music
[Disk One]
01 Uncloudy Day (02:28)
02 My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountain (02:33)
03 Bringing in the Georgia Mail (02:03)
04 Train 45 (01:53)
05 The Worried Man Blues (02:03)
06 The Worried Man Blues (02:31)
07 The Ranger's Command (03:47)
08 Big Kid's Barroom (03:03)
09 The Miller's Will (03:57)
10 Black Jack Davy (01:57)
11 John Hardy (02:42)
12 Single Girl (02:16)
13 Kitty Wells (02:13)
14 The Orphan Girl (03:18)
15 I've Always Been a Rambler (03:24)
16 Undone in Sorrow (02:56)
17 You Led Me to the Wrong (03:52)
18 Absalom My Son, My Son (00:50)
19 Amazing Grace (03:34)
20 Six Feet of Earth (02:31)
21 All the Dark Places (02:42)
22 I'm Going Through (04:37)
23 I've Endured (04:09)
24 I've Endured (02:34)
[Disk Two]
01 Undone in Sorrow (02:45)
02 Plucking the Strings (01:45)
03 Cherokee Shuffle (03:02 04 I'm Longing for a Love I'll Never Know (02:20)
05 Sally Goodin (01:18)
06 Story of Tom Moore, the Gravedigger (01:16)
07 Footprints Left Below (03:14)
08 Leave It There (03:13)
09 Six Hours on the Cross (03:59)
10 John Hardy (01:04)
11 Cherokee Eyes (02:52)
12 High on a Mountain (00:48)
13 Fiddle on the Wall (04:01)
14 Rachel (01:46)
15 The Old Swinging Bridge (02:56)
16 John Hardy/John Henry (01:25)
17 Stolen Love (03:20)
18 The Buzzard and the Monkey (01:17)
19 The Pussycat and the Bulldog (00:43 20 Preacher and the Bear (01:04)
21 Turkey in the Straw (00:29)
22 Ryestraw (01:13)
23 The Butcher Boy (03:10)
24 Simple Man (02:27)
25 1,000 Light Years Away (01:50)
26 I Feel Like Traveling On (03:25)
27 New River Train (02:16)
28 Salt Creek (02:44)
29 Cumberland Gap (00:52)
30 Boxes Full of Memories (02:42)
31 Father, Listen (04:17)
32 My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains (02:15)
33 Family Graveyard (04:31)
34 Over in the Gloryland (03:02)
[Credits]
Ola Belle Reed (banjo/vocala)
Liner Notes: Clifford R. Murphy, Douglas Dowling Peach and Henry Glassie, Designer: Debbie Berne, Enginerrs: Joy Graves, Mike Graves, Clifford R. Murphy and Henry Glassie
[Notes]
Ola Belle Reed (1916–2002) was one of the all-time greatest performers of Appalachian music. Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line combines Reed’s 1960s recordings, some of the earliest she ever made and available here for the very first time, with modern-day field recordings of her descendants and those she inspired within her Appalachian community. This deluxe edition highlights Reed's deep repertoire—folk ballads, minstrel songs, country standards and originals—and traces the impact her music made and is still making today. The two-CD set is accompanied by a luxurious publication tracing Reed's influence and the folklorists who have tracked it: Henry Glassie, who first heard Alex and Ola Belle play in 1966 at the back of the Campbell's Corner general store, and Clifford R. Murphy, who, four decades later, recorded Reed's modern successors in Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania.