Hand-Me-Down Music: Old Songs, Old Friends - Vol. 2

Traditional Music of Union County, North Carolina

Folkways Records – FES 34151

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1980
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Old Time
[Tracklist]
A01 Hambone: Donald Crowder (2:19)
A02 Little Red Rooster: Willie Hamilton (2:37)
A03 Black Cat Bone: Willie Hamilton (2:50)
A04 Barbara Allen: Seena Helms (3:23)
A05 Ground Hog: Seena Helms (0:45)
A06 Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot: Horace Helms & Shady Grove Partners (1:25)
A07 George Collins: Henry Griffin (1:59)
A08 Dancing Girl: Bascom Traywick and George Griffin (1:42)
A09 Rock-A-My Soul: Taylor Sisters (1:20)
A10 I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say: Bishop Bowen and the Combined Gospel Choirs (4:54)
B01 Old Gray Beard A-Flappin': Otis High (0:55)
B02 Watermelon on the Vine: Roy Pope and the Carolina Homeboys (2:48)
B03 Hard Times: Seena Helms (1:25)
B04 Roll, Jordan, Roll: Elizabeth Bivens (2:37)
B05 Somebody's Gone (That Was Here Last Year): Elizabeth Bivens (1:21)
B06 Go Tell It on the Mountain: Elizabeth Bivens (1:44)
B07 Climbing Up the Mountain: Taylor Sisters (1:14)
B08 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: Taylor Sisters (2:36)
B09 City on a Hill: Roy Pope and the Carolina Homeboys (3:05)
B10 Amazing Grace: Horace Helms and the Shady Grove Partners (1:17)
B11 Amazing Grace: C.J. Evans Gospel Choir (4:05)
[Credits]
Producer and Recorder: Karen G. Helms, Recorder: Otto Henry, Photographer: Doug Helms, Designer: Ronald Clyne
[Notes]
The second of two recordings in the Hand Me Down Music series, this collection of traditional folk music is performed by local North Carolina musicians and singers who learned the songs and lyrics from previous generations. The collection includes both secular and religious songs—and one song, "Amazing Grace," Sung both ways. The first version is performed by Horace Helms and Shady Grove Partners as a brief bluegrass rendition, and the second by the CJ Evans Gospel Choir from the Nice Grove Baptist Church as a hymn.