FRC 117 - Jont Blevins: From the collections of Thornton Spencer, Emily Spencer, Flurry Dowe, Andy Cahan and Blanton Owen | Jont Blevins

FRC 117 - Jont Blevins: From the collections of Thornton Spencer, Emily Spencer, Flurry Dowe, Andy Cahan and Blanton Owen

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of FRC 750 - Luther Davis & Hus Caudill - Old-Time Galax-Style Twin Fiddling recorded by Tom Carter & Blanton Owen, FRC 747 - Hus Caudill - Old-Time Alleghany County Fiddling recorded by Tom Carter & Blanton Owen, FRC 745 - Luther Davis - Old-Time Galax Fiddling recorded by Tom Carter & Blanton Owen, FRC 742 - Yvon Mimeault - Reissue of Y'était temps!, FRC 734 - Bill Hensley - Wayne County, WV Banjo Player & Ballad Singer, FRC 800 - A Survey of Traditional Music from the North American Traditions Collection, FRC 738 - John Dee Kennedy of Pawnee, Oklahoma (From the collection of Brad Leftwich and Linda Higginbotham, FRC 737 - John Rector - Galax Fiddle & Banjo (Tom Carter & Blanton Owen recordings), and 107 more. , and , .

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	1.	Cumberland Gap 00:54
	2.	Cluck Old Hen 01:00
	3.	John Hardy 00:42
	4.	Shortening Bread 00:48
	5.	Shortening Bread variations 00:34
	6.	Cripple Creek 00:46
	7.	Sourwood Mountain 00:57
	8.	Casey Jones 01:06
	9.	Soldier's Joy 00:46
	10.	Johnson Boys 00:52
	11.	Black Eyed Susie 00:38
	12.	Cumberland Gap 01:04
	13.	Groundhog 00:53
	14.	John Henry 00:49
	15.	Johnson Boys 01:57
	16.	Reuben 01:50
	17.	Rambling Hobo 01:47
	18.	Old Jimmy Sutton 01:15
	19.	Reuben 01:30
	20.	How Jont learned to play (talk) 01:51
	21.	John Hardy 01:09
	22.	Cripple Creek 01:30
	23.	Cluck Old Hen 00:55
	24.	Johnson Boys 01:16
	25.	Old Jimmy Sutton 00:41
	26.	Reuben in low bass 00:50
	27.	Shortenin' Bread in low bass 01:10
	28.	Rambling Hobo 01:38
	29.	Cripple Creek 01:01
	30.	Old Molly Hare 01:17
	31.	Black Eyed Susie fragment 00:46
	32.	Casey Jones 01:16
	33.	Old Molly Hare 02:20
	34.	Old Jimmy Sutton 02:23
	35.	Sourwood Mountain 01:40

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From the collections of Thornton Spencer, Emily Spencer, Flurry Dowe, Andy Cahan and Blanton Owen

Jont Blevins (1900-1995) was a clawhammer banjo player from the Whitetop area of Grayson County, Virginia. He learned primarily from Emmett Long (born in 1886) who was the great uncle of Albert Hash (see FRC 411). In his younger days, Jont played music with Corbett Stamper (see FRC 306). He was acknowledged by the oldtimers as being one of the best at the old clawhammer style of the area. Jont was very generous with his knowledge of the music and passed it on to younger banjo players who carry on his style including Flurry Dowe, Emily Spencer, and Dee Dee Price. He made no commercial recordings but was recorded by Thornton and Emily Spencer, Flurry Dowe, Andy Cahan, and Blanton Owen. Thanks to them for preserving the recordings heard here. – Kilby Spencer

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released November 20, 2015

1-16,28-31 recorded by Thornton Spencer, Emily Spencer and Flurry Dowe. Tracks 17-19,32-35 recorded by Andy Cahan. Tracks 20-27 recorded by Blanton Owen. Jont Blevins-banjo on all tracks, Thornton Spencer-guitar where played, fiddle on 30-31.

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