Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2001
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Appalachian Music
[Tracklist]
01 When The Train Comes Along (4:31)
02 Oh Lord, Meet Me There (4:30)
03 When The World's On Fire (4:36)
04 Spoonful (4:30)
05 Form The Line (5:08)
06 Get Up In The Morning Soon (5:07)
07 Glory, Glory Hallelujah (3:04)
08 When The Saints Go Marching In (5:21)
09 God Can Use You (4:44)
10 Ain't Had None In A Long Time (2:23)
11 Roll Down The Line (2:57)
12 John Henry (2:26)
13 Spoonful (2:53)
14 Get Away From The Window (2:58)
15 Shortnin' Bread (2:46)
16 Glory, Glory Hallelujah (3:03)
17 So Glad (2:57)
18 Joe Turner (3:42)
19 The Old Hen Cackled (3:02)
20 Good Thing Got More Than One (2:04)
[Credits]
Will Slayden (banjo/vocals)
Producer and Liner Noted: Bruce Nemerov, Charles Wolfe and David Evans, Photographer: Charles McNutt, Editor: Bruce Nemerov
[Notes]
In 1952, Charles McNutt was a young anthropology student in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was also a student of the banjo, and he developed an interest in the instrument’s African (and African-American) roots. Influenced by the field recordings of John and Alan Lomax, McNutt set out to locate and record an African-American banjo player near his home of Memphis, Tennessee. His journey led him to Will Slayden, a sharecropper in his 60s who had given up the instrument when he became a Christian some two decades prior. McNutt rented a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder, loaned Slayden an $8 banjo, and captured an afternoon of history using a hand-held microphone.
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