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2.	Buell Kazee - The Lady Gay 05:17	buy track
3.	Buddy Thomas - Kitty Puss 02:23	buy track
4.	Dwight Lamb - Storm 01:41	buy track
5.	Ola Belle Reed - No Sorrow Will Be There 00:50	buy track
6.	Theresa Morrison - My Heart Is Broke Since Thy Departure (medley) 02:54	buy track
7.	Snake Chapman - Old Aunt Adkins 01:56	buy track
8.	Sam Chatmon - God Don't Like Ugly 02:38	buy track
9.	Nimrod Workman - Newsy Women 02:03	buy track
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17.	E.C. & Orna Ball - Hold to God's Unchanging Hand 03:27	buy track
18.	Sarah Gunning & Jim Garland - God Moves in a Windstorm 03:18	buy track
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25.	Jerry Holland - New Market Reel (medley) 02:09	buy track
26.	Paddy Cronin - Jenny's Welcome to Charlie 01:58	buy track
27.	Carl MacKenzie - The Bee's Wing Hornpipe (medley) 04:34	buy track
28.	Theresa & Marie MacLellan - Bell Piano Strathspey (medley) 04:45	buy track
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This is the Preview album for the exciting and ambitious 15-volume Survey of Traditional Music from the North America Traditions (NAT) Collection. Please visit the NAT page at the FRC website (fieldrecorder dot org) to (1) keep track of new releases in the series; (2) download PDF notes for all of the albums; and (3) access the NAT Research Archive, with over 35 years' worth of field recordings!

The North American Traditions group (NAT) was a small set of friends who recorded a large amount of traditional music between 1972 and 2008, encompassing significant parts of the Appalachians, the Canadian Maritimes, the Ozarks and the American West. Most of the original recordings were intended for release by Rounder Records. Loosely organized by myself, the other central members of this group were Lou Curtiss, John Harrod, Morgan MacQuarrie, Gordon McCann, and Gus Meade, although many others contributed to specific projects. None of us were employed by Rounder Records but mailed our materials to the company, where the releases were overseen by Bill Nowlin. All in all, about 85 projects were published by the group. When Rounder was sold in 2010, I retained the ownership rights, with the intention of rendering the entire archive publicly accessible (a website link is provided below). Norm Cohen and I had envisioned a large, annotated survey of the collection’s contents, and we were pleased when the Field Recorders' Collective agreed to publish (and improve upon!) the 15 volumes we had contemplated. This preview CD consists of 30 additional selections, chosen to illustrate the 15 categories into which the survey itself is divided. We hope that modern audiences will enjoy hearing these songs, tunes and stories as they were actually performed, unfiltered through the ears, fingers, and voices of later generations. Doing so strikes us as the best way of remembering the wonderful people who were kind enough to allow us to make these recordings.
–Mark Wilson

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released October 22, 2021

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