Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2008
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Field Recording, Folk
[Tracklist]
01 Hell Among the Yearlings (2:13)
02 Arkansas Traveler (2:08)
03 Durang's Hornpipe (2:20)
04 Rickett's Hornpipe (2:20)
05 Eighth of January (2:17)
06 Soldier's Joy (2:25)
07 Diamond Joe (2:28)
08 Little Fish (2:42)
09 Leather Britches (2:23)
10 Irish Washer Woman (2:09)
11 Rustic Dance (2:12)
12 Cattle in the Cane Break (2:16)
13 Run Nigger Run (2:14)
14 Billy in the Lowground (2:11)
15 Give the Fiddler a Dram (2:42)
16 Wagoner (2:01)
17 Pick the Devil's Eye Out (1:56)
18 Heel and Toe Polka with the Night Cap On (1:22)
19 Polka Schottische (1:30)
20 Sally Gooden (1:18)
21 Patsy Mind the Baby (1:32)
22 Cripple Creek (2:57)
23 Bastard King of England (2:40)
24 Cornhuskin' Gal (2:48)
25 Mockingbird (2:56)
26 Rochester Schottische (2:35)
27 Sally Johnson (2:39)
28 San Antonio Rose (2:27)
[Credits]
Fiddle – Ed Gillespie (tracks: 8-14) Performer – General Ogden & Son Jimmy (tracks: 18-21) J. A. Meyers (tracks: 1-6) J.D. Dillingham (tracks: 1-7) Jace Middlin & His Alabama Boll Weevils (tracks: 15) Sam Welch & Family (tracks: 22-28) Vee Tuller (tracks: 1-6)
[Notes]
William A. Owens (1905-1990) was a folklorist, author, and professor of English. Despite the fact that his Pin Hook, Texas school was open only 3 months a year, by 1933 Owens managed to get two degrees at Southern Methodist University. In the late 1930s, working partly on his own and partly for the University of Texas Extension Division, he recorded songs from East Texas to the Texas Coast’s Cajun Country, recording on aluminum discs using cactus needles on a second-hand Vibromaster recorder. Owens wrote many books one of which, Slave Mutiny: The Revolt of the Schooner Amistad (1953), provided much of the material for Steven Spielberg's 1997 film, Amistad. In 1966 he became a professor of English at Columbia University in NY, and retired as professor emeritus in 1974. – Ray Alden
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