November 20, 2021

The Hammons Family: A Study of a West Virginia Family's Traditions

Library of Congress – AFS L65-L66
Library of Congress – AFS L65-L66

Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1973
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Disk One]
A1 Old Sledge
A2 Camp Chase
A3 Three Forks Of Cheat
A4 The Yankee And Marcum
A5 Sugar Grove Blues
A6 Turkey In The Straw
B1 The Route
B2 Fine Times At Our House
B3 Jimmy Johnson
B4 Parson's Rock
B5 In Scotland Town
B6 Little Omie
[Disk Two]
A1 Yount Henerly
A2 Muddy Roads
A3 Bringing Back The sheep
A4 The Sandy Boys
A5 Wilson's Clog
A6 Sugar Babe
B1 We're Marching Around The Levees
B2 Riddles
B3 Mercian Tittery-Ary-A
B4 Jay Legg
B5 When This World Comes To An End
[Credits]
Burl Hammons (fiddle/narration) Maggie Hammons Parker (vocals/sticks/narration) Sherman Hammons (banjo)
Editors: Carl Fleischhauer and Alan Jabbour, Recorder: Alan Jabbour, Carl Fleischhauer and Dwight Diller
[Notes]
This double album looks in on a rural West Virginia family in the early '70s and examines how they assimilated assorted country and folk forms into their back-porch playing and their lives. These anachronistic recordings could have been made four decades earlier, yet the narration and comments are strictly modern. Recorded in Marlinton, West Virginia, 1970-72.

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