Let Me Fall: Old Time Bluegrass from the Virginia-North Carolina Border

Cullen Galyean and Bobby Harrison

Folkways Records - FS 3910

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: United States
Released: 1984
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
A1 Your Horses Ain't Hungry (04:04)
A2 Life of Sorrow (02:39)
A3 Soldier's Joy (02:39)
A4 Nobody's Darling (02:40)
A5 Roll On Buddy Roll On (03:27)
A6 White Dove (03:17)
B1 Ground Hog (02:27)
B2 Sally Ann (02:01)
B3 Let Me Fall (02:34)
B4 Lonesome Day (03:15)
B5 May I Sleep in Your Barn, Mister? (03:51)
B6 Old Reuben (04:29)
[Credits]
Cullen Galyean (banjo/fiddle/vocls) Bobby Harrison (guitar/vocals)
Liner Notes: Paul Newman, Paul Tyler, & Eric Davidson
Designer: Ronald Clyne, Recorder: Eric H. Davidson
[Notes]
The traditional bluegrass music interpreted by Cullen Gaylean (banjo and fiddle) and Bobby Harrison (guitar) hails from the hills spanning southwestern Virginia and northwestern North Carolina. Gaylean and Harrison, friends and musical partners for over 25 years when the album was recorded, also issued four other albums for Folkways Records as members of the Virginia Mountain Boys. Here they pare down the traditional full bluegrass band to expose the interplay between their two voices and instruments. This collection brings together music from the 20th, 19th, and earlier centuries, providing the listener an insight to the typical repertoire of Appalachian string bands from the North Carolina–Virginia border. Liner notes include background on the artists by Paul Newman, Paul Tyler, and Eric Davidson as well as notes on each song's historical context.

Ballads And Songs Of The Blue Ridge Mountains

Asch Records‎ AH-3831

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: United States
Released: 1968
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country, Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 The Hanging of Georgie: Paul Joines (1:34)
A2 Returning Sweetheart: Sarah Hawkes (1:54)
A3 Barbry Allen: Granny Porter and Wade Ward (2:43)
A4 The Young Men and Maids: Paul Joines (2:19)
A5 The Green Willow Tree: Paul Joines (4:21)
A6 Ho Lilly Ho: Sarah Hawkes (2:15)
A7 Walkin' in the Parlor: Kilby Reeves (1:22)
A8 Little Sparrow: Sarah Hawkes (1:50)
A9 County Jail: Kilby Reeves (1:50)
A10 Warfare is A-Raging: Aunt Polly Joines (1:22)
A11 Pig in a Pen: Spud Gravely and Glen Smith (2:31)
A12 Roving Ranger: Paul Joines (2:52)
B1 Pretty Polly: The Cruel Ship's Carpenter (2:09)
B2 George Allen: Lady Alice (1:16)
B3 Roving Gambler: Hobart and Larry Delp with Joe Kyles (2:28)
B4 Ten Thousand Miles: Ruby Vass (3:22)
B5 1809: Glen Neaves (3:12)
B6 Little Maggie: Ivor Melton, Cullen Galyean and Claudine Lambert (3:36)
B7 Death Of The Lawson Family: Glen Neaves (1:55)
B8 Lonesome Day: Ruby Vass (2:13)
B9 Budded Roses: Paul Jones and Cliff Evans (2:35)
[Credits]
Liner Notes: Eric Davidson and Paul Newman
[Notes]
Stemming from a want to preserve the dwindling unique oral traditions of the Blue Ridge Mountain back-country region, Eric Davidson, Paul Newman and Caleb Finch performed field recordings of songs that exemplified the evolution of ballads in the region, creating an anthology of music that characterized the musical mountain traditions. Originating from folk music of the British Isles, many of the songs are performed with little or no instrumental accompaniment. These beautiful archaic folk melodies have retained their roots in the ballad and lament tradition, sung here by both men and women (traditionally ballads were sung only by women) with occasional lively banjo accompaniments.