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Music From The Lost Provinces Old Hat CD-1001 CD £13.99 Subtitled “Old-Time Stringbands from Ashe County, North Carolina & Vicinity, 1927-1931”, Music From The Lost Provinces is another glorious trawl through the never-ending spirit-pot of early 20th century American esotera from one of its premier exponents, Old Hat. This one focuses on string band, git-fiddle, guitar and vocal performances, mostly white, that were recorded in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the mountainous ‘lost provinces’ of Ashe County. Fans of high lonesome sound will find plenty to haunt them here, with bleak/beautiful sides from players like Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers, The Hill Billies, Smyth County Ramblers, Grayson & Whitter, Carolina Night Hawks et al. Another great booklet with an assortment of snaps that have to be seen to be believed. Too much, highly recommended. |
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In The Pines: Tar Heel Folk Songs & Fiddle Tunes Old Hat CD-1006 CD £13.99 Great new comp of folk and fiddle based blasters from North Carolina 1926-1936 from a label that consistently delivers the cream of unknown American Primitive. This is another ass-flattening postcard from a gone world that features a ton of tough to find, rarely compiled material that runs through murder ballads, gospel hymns, mountain blues and railroad songs, the bulk of which have never been available on CD before. Features tracks by “Dock” Walsh, The Red Fox Chasers, Carolina Buddies, Carolina Ramblers String Band, Dixon Brothers & Mutt Evans, North Carolina Cooper Boys, Ben Jarrell, Cranford & Thompson, The Highlanders, Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright, Proximity String Quartet, Blankenship Family, The Grady Family, Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles, Cauley Family, Clarence Greene, Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers, Whitter-Hendley-Small, Grayson & Whitter, Mainer’s Mountaineers, E.R. Nance Family with Clarence Dooley, Frank Jenkins’ Pilot Mountaineers and Carolina Tar Heels. |
