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FRC 407 - Franklin George: Recordings from the collection of Fred Coon

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	1.	Bill Cheatham 02:25
	2.	Wild Horse 01:23
	3.	Teetotaler 01:20
	4.	Forked Deer 02:07
	5.	Arkansas Traveler 02:10
	6.	Soldier's Joy 01:52
	7.	Wind That Shakes the Barley 01:30
	8.	Rickett's Hornpipe 01:06
	9.	Fisher's Hornpipe 01:05
	10.	Devil's Dream 01:10
	11.	One More River to Cross 01:40
	12.	Cripple Creek 02:35
	13.	Cluck Old Hen 02:49
	14.	The Boatman 01:57
	15.	Harv Brown's Dream 03:25
	16.	Sourwood Mountain 01:52
	17.	Salt River 03:49
	18.	Sugar in the Gourd 01:24
	19.	Sally Goodin 05:58
	20.	Talk about Blind Ed Haley 02:07
	21.	Mississippi Sawyer 05:22
	22.	Black Eyed Susie 01:40
	23.	Jenny Rowlands 02:20
	24.	Unknown 01:29
	25.	Billy in the Lowground 01:58
	26.	Girl I Left Behind 01:44

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Frank George is a West Virginia icon. No fiddler, banjo player, hammered dulcimer player or bagpiper grows up in West Virginia without knowing the name Frank George. Frank and his wife Jane have founded festivals, supported local historical events and been the backbone of West Virginia traditional music for fifty years. Forty years ago, when these recordings were made, Alan Jabbour remarked that Frank had forgotten more tunes than Alan knew, saying further that Frank could play well over 1000 tunes. Frank knew, played with and shared the West Virginia fiddling tradition with French Carpenter, Ira Mullins, Doc White, and Virginia fiddler, John Fitzgerald Hilt, who appears on this recording. Frank George personifies traditional West Virginia Old Time Music. – Fred Coon

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released November 10, 2015

Tracks 1-11: recorded at Hawk’s Nest State Park with Frank George (fiddle), Fred Coon (Banjo), and John Morris (guitar). Tracks 12-26: recorded in Tannersville, VA with Frank George (banjo) and John Hilt (fiddle).

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