May 8, 2022

Iron Mountain String Band: An Old Time Southern Mountain String Band

Folkways Records FA-2473
Folkways Records FA-2473

Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1973
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Old Time
[Tracklist]
A01 Western Country (2:42)
A02 Skip to My Lou (1:40)
A03 Sail Away Ladies (3:30)
A04 Louisville Burglar (3:10)
A05 Lonesome Day (3:04)
A06 Train on the Island (2:48)
A07 Short Life of Trouble (2:38)
A08 Merry Golden Tree (5:45)
B01 Black Eyed Suzy (2:42)
B02 Sally Goodin' (1:56)
B03 Lewis Collins (2:22)
B04 Little Sparrow (2:08)
B05 Johnson Boys (2:21)
B06 Omie Wise (2:59)
B07 Ground Hog (1:50)
B08 Pig in a Pen (2:16)
B09 Lone Prairie (1:20)
B10 Cluck Old Hen (2:45)
B11 Cumberland Gap (3:52)
[Credits]
Eric Davidson (banjo) Caleb Finch (fiddle) Peggy Haine (guitar)
Producer: Eric Davidson, Designer: Robert Clyne
[Notes]
Finch and Davidson started making field recordings of Southern Appalachian musicians in the 1950s, primarily those in Grayson and Carroll counties, Virginia, such as Wade Ward and Glen Smith. Those recordings became the basis for a series of albums published by Folkways. The Iron Mountain String Band was founded in 1963, in New York City, and began making its own Folkways albums 10 years later. Finch and Davidson moved to Southern California in the 1970s and recorded an album as recently as 2001.

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