Frank Proffitt Sings Folk Songs

Folkways Records – FA 2360

Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono
Country: US
Released: 1962
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Appalachian Music
[Tracklist]
A1 Beaver Dam Road (1:26)
A2 Cindy (2:16)
A3 Bo Lamkin (4:08)
A4 Julie Jenkins (1:46)
A5 George Collins (2:24)
A6 Ninety And Nine (3:23)
A7 Down In The Valley (2:46)
B1 Baby-O (1:37)
B2 Old Abe (3:31)
B3 Poor Ellen Smith (1:50)
B4 Dan Doo (1:55)
B5 John Hardy (2:27)
B6 Groundhog (1:56)
B7 Johnson Boys (1:46)
[Credits]
Frank Proffitt (banjo/dulcimer/vocals)
Producer: Frank Warner, Liner Notes: Anne and Frank Warner, Recorder: Sandy Paton
[Notes]
A native of Beech Mountain in the northwest corner of North Carolina, singer and banjo player Frank Proffitt's tremendous repertoire inspired musicians interested in old time music. This collection features local ballads, and its liner notes contain copious quotations and anecdotes from Proffitt.

Frank Proffitt

Folk-Legacy Records – FSA-1

Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue
Country: US
Released: 1962
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Old Time
[Tracklist]
A1 Trifling Woman (2:18)
A2 Cluck Old Hen (2:23)
A3 Morning Fair (2:50)
A4 Bonnie James Campbell (1:27)
A5 Lord Randall (3:29)
A6 Handsome Molly (1:45)
A7 Reuben Train (2:57)
A8 Tom Dooley (2:44)
A9 I'm Going Back To North Carolina (1:54)
B1 Moonshine (1:41)
B2 Rye Whiskey (2:31)
B3 I'll Never Get Drunk No More (2:35)
B4 Wild Bill Jones (3:27)
B5 Gyps Of David (2:57)
B6 Song Of A Lost Hunter (4:24)
B7 Sourwood Mountain (2:31)
B8 Going Across The Mountain (2:16)
[Credits]
Frank Proffitt (banjo/vocals)
Recorder, Editor and Liner Notes: Sandy Paton
[Notes]
Frank Proffitt was a musician, luthier, farmer, and carpenter whose source of traditional Appalachian music reached far past the borders of his home of North Carolina. Proffitt is best known for his singing and self-accompanying homemade fretless banjo playing. On this record Frank Proffitt sings "Tom Dooley", a once obscure murder ballad that went on to sell over six million copies after it was recorded and popularized by the Kingston Trio in 1958. These field recordings taken by Sandy Paton make up this impactful first release on Folk-Legacy Records and followed the release of Frank Proffitt Sings Folk Songs, a Folkways release also recorded by Sandy Paton prior to founding Folk-Legacy Records. In the years that followed, Proffitt would become an inspiration to performers of mountain music, playing his homemade banjos and dulcimers at the Newport and Chicago folk festivals, and the 1964 New York World's Fair.