Showing posts with label Cousin Emmy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cousin Emmy. Show all posts

February 22, 2018

The New Lost City Ramblers with Cousin Emmy

Folkways Records FTS-31015

Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1968
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 Old Tim Brooks (1:21)
A2 A Home In Old Kentucky (1:23)
A3 I'm Going 'Cross The Sea (2:17)
A4 Pretty Little Miss Out In The Garden (3:12)
A5 Little Joe (3:01)
A6 Ruby, Are You Mad At Your Man? (1:46)
A7 Dance All Night With A Bottle In Your Hand (1:37)
A8 Lost John (3:12)
B1 Bowling Green (1:46)
B2 Cat's Got The Measles (1:22)
B3 Mother's Grave (2:58)
B4 Chilly Scenes Of Winter (2:05)
B5 Graveyard (1:37)
B6 Johnny Booker (1:29)
B7 Scat Tom Kitty Puss (1:14)
B8 Shortening Bread (1:00)
[Credits]
Cousin Emmy (banjo/harmonica/vocals) Mike Seeger (mandolin/autoharp) John Cohen (guitar) Tracy Schwarz (fiddle/bass) George Winston (bass)
Produced by the New Lost City Ramblers
[Notes]
Recorded April 24, 1967, at Sound House in El Monte, California. Cousin Emmy, born Cynthia May Carver (1903-1980) in Barren County, Kentucky, brought the old time banjo music of her roots to glitzier venues, where she donned sequined dresses to create a stage presence, all the while maintaining the integrity of her clear vocals and banjo frailing. It was at such a venue, at a +IBw-Country & Western Night performance+IB0- at the Disneyland Resort in 1961, that she happened to meet the New Lost City Ramblers, who accompany her on this album. The quintessential music of Cousin Emmy can be heard on this album in the classic bluegrass played in the style of mountainous regions, sometimes very popular in the mountains of eastern Kentucky but rarely recorded, and in Emmy+IBk-s reinterpretations that became standalone classics themselves, such as "Ruby are you mad at your man?"

April 19, 2017

Songcatcher II: The Tradition That Inspired The Movie

Vanguard 79716-2

Format: CD, Various Artists, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 2002
Genre: Folk, World, & Country, Stage & Screen
Style: Bluegrass, Country
[Tracklist]
01 Babes In The Woods: Almeda Riddle (1:00)
02 Georgie: Doc Watson (2:46)
03 The Coo Coo Bird: Hobart Smith (1:45)
04 The Two Lovers: Almeda Riddle (2:24)
05 Matty Groves: Doc Watson (6:07)
06 Oh Death: Dock Boggs (3:16)
07 Gunning Girl Of Constant Sorrow: Sarah Ogan (2:07)
08 Winter's Night: Doc Watson (3:25)
09 Black Jack Davey: Almeda Riddle (2:52)
10 Sugar Baby: Dock Boggs (1:57)
11 Wish I Was A Single Girl Again: Cousin Emmy (1:55)
12 Leather Britches: Fiddlin' Arthur Smith (2:19)
13 Will The Weaver: Almeda Riddle (2:00)
14 Little Birdie: Roscoe Holcomb (1:52)
15 Pretty Saro: Doc Watson (2:45)
16 House Carpenter: Clarence Ashley (3:53)
17 Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies: Maybelle Carter (3:44)
[Credits]
Producer: Fred Jasper & Georgette Cartwright, Liner Notes: Sheila Adams, John Currie & Fred Jasper
[Notes]
The artists and, of course, these performances contained here are different than those in the movie. Several of these tracks were pulled from Newport Folk Festival performances in the early '60s.