FRC 720 - Ora Watson: Watauga County,NC Old Time Music (From the collections of Mary Greene and Cecil Gurganus) | Ora Watson

FRC 720 - Ora Watson: Watauga County,NC Old Time Music (From the collections of Mary Greene and Cecil Gurganus)

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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.	Whistlebritches 03:02	buy track
2.	Lost John 01:25	buy track
3.	Red Rocking Chair 02:02	buy track
4.	Black Eyed Susie 03:25	buy track
5.	Sourwood Mountain 01:40	buy track
6.	Shortening Bread 02:53	buy track
7.	Cindy (Ora on banjo) 01:01	buy track
8.	House Carpenter 03:43	buy track
9.	Little Brown Jug 02:08	buy track
10.	Bulldog Down in Sunny Tennessee 02:38	buy track
11.	Soldier's Joy 02:42	buy track
12.	Golden Curls 02:08	buy track
13.	Turkey in the Straw 01:57	buy track
14.	Pretty Fair Maid Who Lived on the Plain 02:05	buy track
15.	Worried Man Blues 03:12	buy track
16.	Charlie Lawson Tragedy 02:29	buy track
17.	Freight Train 01:21	buy track
18.	Black Mountain Rag 01:59	buy track
19.	Hey Mona 01:39	buy track
20.	Sally Goodin 02:29	buy track
21.	Farther Along 03:50	buy track
22.	Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss 01:03	buy track
23.	True Life Blues 01:22	buy track
24.	Buffalo Gals 03:07	buy track
25.	Bile Them Cabbage Down 02:05	buy track
26.	Chinese Breakdown 01:59	buy track
27.	Watermelon Hanging on the Vine 02:27	buy track
28.	I Don't Love Nobody 01:08	buy track
29.	Ragtime Annie 02:28	buy track
30.	[Visiting with Ora] 03:08	buy track
31.	[More visiting with Ora] 01:36	buy track
32.	[Extra talking] 01:21	buy track

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Ora Watson (1911-2008) played music for nine decades. Born in Watauga County, North Carolina, her father was a buck dancer and played the banjo, and her mother sang religious music and old British ballads. Her cousin Charles Isaacs was a fiddler. Like others of her generation, Ora was also influenced by radio and recordings. This album shows the wide range of her repertoire, which includes most of the genres played in the Southern mountains through the mid-twentieth century: fiddle and banjo tunes, ballads, hymns, minstrel songs, Tin Pan Alley, blues, early country and bluegrass. Ora could play banjo and guitar, but her favorite instrument was the fiddle. She formed her first group, the Isaac Sisters, at age 11, and played with various others over the years. She had a vivacious personality and was a performer at heart, cracking jokes onstage and off, and was known for being able to dance and fiddle at the same time. – Steve Kruger

Cover photo by Cedric N. Chatterley.

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released December 27, 2016

Ora Watson, fiddle (all tracks), guitar (tracks 9-18), banjo (tracks 7-8), vocals (tracks 19-25 & 26-29), Cecil Gurganus, banjo (tracks 1, 19-25), Mary Greene, guitar (tracks 4-25), Rick Stone, mandolin (tracks 1, 19-25), Amy Michels, banjo (tracks 4-8), Arlie Watson, guitar (tracks 2-3; with Blue Ridge Ramblers: Doc Watson, guitar, Paul Greer,guitar, Jim Earp, bass, Ronnie Hicks, banjo, Dennis Isaacs, harmonica (track 30)

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