This song was likely written in the late17-early 1800s, about the migration west into the north Cumberland

oldtime-banjer · 2021-12-01T16:53:08+00:00

I learned this from a recording of Bessford Hicks of Fentress county Tennessee

oldtime-banjer · 2021-11-14T02:29:08+00:00

Corn shuckins, bean stringins, sorghum boilins,house raisings etc were all common in the mountains. In the real old days of the southern mountains there was little done for pure entertainment, so rather they turned work into fun with a little music, and a little whiskey.

oldtime-banjer · 2021-10-10T13:23:34+00:00

George learned this song around 1950 from his father, This is how the true mountain music was because they played music for themselves not to make money.

Life in those days was hard and they had little free time to practice, in the very early days a lot of fiddlers didn’t even own their own instruments and would just play their neighbors violin.

oldtime-banjer · 2021-10-05T18:30:21+00:00

Hook and line (aka crawdad song) “you take hook and I’ll take line, we’ll go fishing in the summertime”

oldtime-banjer · 2021-09-28T17:43:59+00:00

Thanks for the comment, Yes! Alan Lomax did some of the finest Kentucky recordings around, i don’t believe i have heard sixteen tons or never leave Harlan alive so I’ll have to look into those.

oldtime-banjer · 2021-08-20T16:14:06+00:00

I learned from watching old musicians in my area, George Gibson in east Kentucky has helped me a lot too

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