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FRC 701 - Sherman Hammons (Wayne Howard collection)

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	1.	Christmas Morning 01:13
	2.	The John Henry Blues 02:03
	3.	Hold Corn, Cold Corn 01:20
	4.	Hot Corn, Cold Corn 02:07
	5.	Drunken Hiccups (fiddle) 02:39
	6.	Sourwood Mountain (banjo) 01:18
	7.	Soldier's Joy (banjo) 01:33
	8.	Soldier's Joy (vocal) 00:26
	9.	Soldier's Joy (fiddle) 01:17
	10.	Poor Ellen Smith (banjo) 01:45
	11.	Charlie (vocal) 00:42
	12.	Muddy Roads (banjo) 02:12
	13.	Star of Bethlehem (fiddle) 01:19
	14.	Walking in the Parlor (banjo) 01:20
	15.	Walking in the Parlor 2 (banjo) 01:09
	16.	Piney Woods (fiddle) 01:14
	17.	Once I Courted a Pretty Little Miss (vocal) 00:27
	18.	Red Rocking Chair 01:21
	19.	I Was Born in East Virginia (vocal) 04:03
	20.	The Muskrat Song (banjo) 02:14
	21.	The Lost Girl (fiddle) 01:37
	22.	Forks of Reedy (fiddle) 01:07
	23.	Shelvin' Rock (fiddle) 01:00
	24.	Jimmy Johnson (banjo) 01:58
	25.	Three Forks of Cheat (fiddle) 01:26
	26.	There Lived a Lady Gay, The Truth To You I'll Tell 03:24
	27.	Fine Times at Our House (fiddle) 01:30
	28.	Joker Jess (vocal) 01:35
	29.	Rose Connelly (fiddle) 01:49
	30.	Arkansas Traveler (fiddle) 00:48
	31.	Three Little Babes (vocal) 05:32
	32.	Red Rocking Chair (banjo) 01:56
	33.	Lovely Nancy 03:04
	34.	Calloway 02:02
	35.	Arkansas Traveler 01:16
	36.	Liza Jane (fiddle) 01:11
	37.	Greasy Coat 02:00
	38.	Reuben's Train (banjo) 00:29
	39.	Reuben's Train (vocal) 00:40
	40.	Hawk Shot a Buzzard 02:19
	41.	Cripple Creek (with thumb string fretted) 00:47
	42.	Liza Jane (banjo) 01:40

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From the collection of Wayne Howard

Sherman Hammons (1903-1988) played only two banjo tunes and told two stories on the LP albums that made his family well known in the old-time music world. His fiddling and his singing were not heard at all. As the selections on this disc for the FRC will make clear, Sherman was an accomplished singer in the traditional Appalachian style and a fiddler in a fine, archaic style reminiscent of his Uncle Edden’s fiddling. He spent a lot of time with Edden, played a number of tunes learned from him, and told a lot of stories about him. Although Sherman’s active fiddle repertoire was not large, he played in several different tunings. His banjo repertoire featured an even greater variety of tunings, partly because he played more tunes on the banjo but possibly, too, because he learned banjo pieces from a wider circle of musicians. In addition to “frailing” the banjo, Sherman played a few pieces in a three-finger upstroke style, represented here by his version of “Hot Corn, Cold Corn, Hand Around the Jimmyjohnny.” － Wayne Howard

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released October 7, 2015

Sherman Hammons (fiddle, banjo)

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