Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1985
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass, Old Time
[Tracklist]
A1 Knoxville Girl (4:48)
A2 Rueben (2:57)
A3 The Wreck Of The Old 97 (2:40)
A4 Nine Pound Hammer (2:27)
A5 Poor Ellen Smith (2:20)
A6 Plossum Blowed His Horn (2:54)
A7 Banks Of The Ohio (2:44)
B1 Jimmy Sutton (2:03)
B2 Down In The Willow Garden (2:33)
B3 Cumberland Gap (2:30)
B4 Going Down The Road Feeling Bad (2:29)
B5 Sugar Babe (2:05)
B6 Pretty Polly (2:48)
B7 Southwood Mountain (1:58)
[Credits]
Bill Johnson (banjo) Billie Ray Johnson (guitar) David Johnson (fiddle)
Producer: John R. Craig, Photographer: Gilbert Blackburn, Designer: Ronald Clyne
[Notes]
Born in North Carolina in 1911, Bill Johnson started playing the banjo at the age of eight. With his son Billie Ray on guitar and grandson David on fiddle, he leads three generations of talented mountain musicians in this collection of murder ballads and folk songs. All the instrumental songs are what Johnson calls "old tunes." They have been handed down through the generations and can still be heard on front porches and at dances in the Western North Carolina Mountains. Vocal tunes, including "Knoxville Girl" and "Poor Ellen Smith," are also featured.
