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FRC 114 - Union Grove 1969: Recordings from the collection of Ray Alden

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1.
Back to the Old Smokey Mountains 02:31
2.
Silly Billy 00:48
3.
When You and I Were Young, Maggie 01:02
4.
Peacock Rag 02:01
5.
Heartaches 01:27
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Over the Waves 02:46
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Goodbye Booze 01:24
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Flop Eared Mule 01:37
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Can I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight, Mister? 01:53
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Nobody Knew My Name 01:10
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Silver Threads Among the Gold 02:15
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Just Because 02:23
13.
Peacock Rag 01:35
14.
Wreck of the Old 97 02:19
15.
Wednesday Night Waltz 02:30
16.
Sally Goodin 00:58
17.
Bull at the Wagon 02:12
18.
Fiddler's Dream 00:36
19.
Mississippi Sawyer 00:54
20.
Bill Bailey 02:38
21.
Shoot the Turkey Buzzard 00:54
22.
Ragtime Annie 02:04
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Sally Goodin 01:39
24.
Rachel 01:26
25.
Untitled fiddle blues 02:11
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Untitled 01:28
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Untitled 02:26
28.
Mississippi Sawyer 01:56
29.
Fire on the Mountain 00:50
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Flop Eared Mule 02:41
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Paddy on the Turnpike 03:48
32.
Wild Horse 01:36
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Liberty 01:46
34.
Black Mountain Rag 01:39
35.
Bonaparte's Retreat 01:36
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June Apple 01:47
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Fortune 01:12
38.
Foggy Mountain Top 02:06
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Old Joe Clark 01:42
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Untitled 01:00
41.
Orange Blossom Special 01:24
42.
Arkansas Traveler 01:31
43.
Mississippi Sawyer 01:35
44.
Florida Blues 01:05
45.
Sally Goodin 01:10

about

(From the collection of Ray Alden)

During Easter Week of 1969, my wife Diane and I took a two-day trip down then incomplete Interstate 81 to smaller roads leading to the small town of Union Grove, North Carolina. We arrived late at night to the last Fiddler’s Convention to be held at the old school house. On stage in the school gym was an older man fiddling up a storm and wriggling his body to his music. It turned out to be the legendary Clark Kessinger, heard here on four tracks. The next day we recorded the remarkable Buffalo Ford Boys, from Asheboro North Carolina, with Glenn Davis picking a top tension Mastertone banjo in a bouncy Charlie Poole style. We then wandered over to Bob Douglas, from southern Tennessee and who in 1928 had worked with the Allen Brothers, playing some lovely fiddle music. I then had a pleasant discussion with Wade Ward. This was followed by recording a succession of musicians, including fiddler H.A. Harold of Winston-Salem, North Carolina and a group of old time musicians from whom I neglected to get names. I felt I had landed in southern old time music paradise, causing me a hard time when I returned back to teaching in New York. – Ray Alden

credits

released November 18, 2015

Buffalo Ford Boys (Archie Clark-fiddle, Glenn Davis–banjo, Fred Olson-guitar, Roland Brady-bass, tracks 1-15) , Clark Kessinger-fiddle and Gene Meade-guitar (tracks 16-18), Bob Douglas-fiddle and James Sullivan-guitar (tracks 19-27), H.A. Harold-fiddle with band (tracks 28-31), unknown old time string band featuring two-finger style banjo (tracks 32-45).

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