no. 114

2 October 2024

sending <3 to western North Carolina<3 if you are able, please consider donating to a mutual aid group in WNC - these groups are made up of people who know their community and their needs <3:

Beloved Asheville

paypal: BeLovedAsheville

venmo: @BeLoved-Asheville

Marshall Mutual Aid Hub - Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR WNC)

paypal: ruralorganizingandresilience@gmail.com

instagram with needs list: @_roar_wnc

Pansy Collective

venmo: @pansycollective

Appalachian Medical Solidarity/Asheville Survival Program

venmo: @AppMedSolid

cashapp: $streetsidehelene

Mutual Aid Disaster Relief

paypal: MutualAidDisasterRelief@gmail.com

venmo: @MutualAidDisasterRelief

Support Farmers and Grassroots Food System Organizing in WNC (GoFundMe)

Holler Harm Reduction

venmo: @HollerHarmRedux

instagram with needs list: @hollerharmreduction

PODER Emma (donations to Colaborativa La Milpa)

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tonight's show features traditional music of western North Carolina - old-time music, ballads, love songs, fiddle and banjo tunes, early country, and blues with a sprinkling of shape note singing, clogging, and music from the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians <3 organized by county <3 love to those impacted <3 we're here for you <3

Macon County

~Marcus Martin, "A Bed of Primroses" (from acetate disc found in the Artus Moser Papers at UNC's Wilson Library)

Madison County

~Mrs. Culberson, "Mattie Groves" with brief discussion about ballad and growing up on Spring Creek (from acetate disc found in the Artus Moser Papers at UNC's Wilson Library)

~Maude Gentry Long, "Sweet William", "Jackie's Gone a Sailing" (from acetate disc found in the Artus Moser Papers at UNC's Wilson Library)

~Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground", Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways (2002)

~Berzilla Wallin, "Love Has Brought Me to Despair", Old Love Songs & Ballads From The Big Laurel, North Carolina (1964, Folkways Records)

~Doug Wallin, "Omie Wise", Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways (2002)

~Lloyd Chandler, "Remember and Do Pray For Me", High Atmosphere (1974, Rounder Records)

~Dillard Chandler, "Mathie Grove", Old Love Songs & Ballads From The Big Laurel, North Carolina (1964, Folkways Records)

~Dellie Norton, "Pretty Fair Miss In Her Garden, Old Love Songs & Ballads From The Big Laurel, North Carolina (1964, Folkways Records)

~Cas Wallin, "Pretty Saro (Pretty Sara)", Old Love Songs & Ballads From The Big Laurel, North Carolina (1964, Folkways Records)

~Obray Ramsey, "Shady Grove", Obray Ramsey Sings Folksongs From The Three Laurels (1961, Prestige International)

~Byard Ray, "Polly Put the Kettle On", Byard Ray, Manco Sneed & Mike Rogers: Recordings from the collection of Peter Hoover (2006, Field Recorders' Collective)

~Bill Hensley, "Burke County" (unknown source / Youtube)

~Callahan Brothers, "I Want to be Where You Are" (1937, Melotone)

Buncomb County (with sprinklings of Macon and Madison counties)

~Orrin Rice, "Rose Conley" (from acetate disc found in the Artus Moser Papers at UNC's Wilson Library)

~Swannanoa high school girls, "Irish Lullaby" (from acetate disc found in the Artus Moser Papers at UNC's Wilson Library)

~Marcus Martin, "Shove the Pig's Foot" (recorded in 1953), Old Time Fiddle (1973, produced by Edsel Martin Billy Edd Wheeler for Benchmark Gallery, Inc)

~Osey and Ernest Helton,"twin fiddle Cumberland Gap" (unknown source / Youtube)

~Wade Mainer, Zeke Morris, "Down in the Willow" (1937, Bluebird)

Haywood County

~“Dinner on the Grounds, Old Folks Day, Morning Star United Methodist, Canton, NC” (unknown source / Youtube)

~Luke Smathers String Band, "Cacklin Hen ", Mountain Swing (1978, June Appal Recordings)

~Carroll Best, "Little Rock Getaway" (unknown source / Youtube)

~Buck Ryan, Don Reno, Red Smiley, "In the Pines", Fiddling Buck Ryan With Don Reno & Red Smiley (1971, Rural Rhythm Records)

Jackson County

~Eva Davis, Samantha Bumgarner, “Cindy in the Meadows" (1924, Columbia)

~Manco Sneed, "Blackberry Blossom", Byard Ray, Manco Sneed & Mike Rogers: Recordings from the collection of Peter Hoover (2006, Field Recorders' Collective)

~Manco Sneed,"Billy in the Lowground", Byard Ray, Manco Sneed & Mike Rogers: Recordings from the collection of Peter Hoover (2006, Field Recorders' Collective)

Qualla Township: Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

~Walker Calhoun, "Friendship Dance" at Seedtime on the Cumberland 1993 (1993, Appalshop Archives)

Yancey County (I couldn't help myself - Lesley Riddle) x3)

~Lesley Riddle, "Red River Blues", Step By Step (1993, Rounder Records)

~Lesley Riddle, "John Henry", Step By Step (1993, Rounder Records)

~Lesley Riddle, "The Cannon Ball", Step By Step (1993, Rounder Records)

Watauga County

~Frank Proffitt, “Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down”, High Atmosphere (1974, Rounder Records)

~Frank Proffitt, "I'm Going Back to North Carolina", Frank Proffitt (1962, Folk-Legacy Records)

~Carolina Chocolate Drops & Arthur Grimes, “Little Rabbit” at 2011 Mountain Song Festival in Brevard NC

~Doc Watson, "Black Mountain Rag", Doc Watson (1964, Vanguard)

Ashe County

~Frank Blevins & his Tar Heel Ramblers, "Nine Pound Hammer" (1928, Columbia)

~Ola Belle Reed, "Where the Wild, Wild Flowers Grow", Ola Belle Reed & Family (1977, Rounder Records)

~Albert Hash and the Whitetop Mountain Boys, "Nancy Blevins", Whitetop (Mountain Records)

Caldwell County

~Etta Baker, Cora Phillips, "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad", Carolina Breakdown, (2006, Music Maker Relief Foundation)

~Etta Baker, "Carolina Breakdown", Railroad Bill (1999, Music Maker Relief Foundation)

Catawba County

~The Blue Sky Boys, "Turn Your Radio On", The Sunny Side Of Life (1973, Rounder Records)

image: <3 Hot Springs, N.C. (AW, July 2024)