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  1. Old Age Pension Blues]
  2. Hook and Line]
  3. John Henry]
  4. Pretty Polly]
  5. Old Reuben
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  1. Old Age Pension Blues]
  2. Hook and Line]
  3. John Henry]
  4. Pretty Polly]
  5. Old Reuben
  6. Spring of '65]
  7. Sally in the Garden]
  8. Barbara Allen]
  9. When We Shall Meet]
  10. Amazing Grace
  11. Across the Rocky Mountain
  12. Graveyard Blues]
  13. Cripple Creek]
  14. True Love]
  15. Sally in the Garden]
  16. Lost Indian]
  17. Hollow Poplar]
  18. Death of the Blue Eagle
  19. Little Birdie]
  20. Lost Indian]
  21. Jaw Bone]
  22. Bunker's Hill]
  23. Cacklin' Hen]
  24. Julie Ann]
  25. Born in Old Kentucky]
  26. Buck Creek Girls]
  27. Sweet Willie]
  28. Cluck Old Hen]
  29. Coney Island
  30. Baby Let Your Hair Roll Down]
  31. Wayfaring Stranger]
  32. Stingy Woman
  33. East Virginia Blues]
  34. Single Girl]
  35. Black Eyed Susie]
  36. Hills of Mexico
  37. Foreign Lander]
  38. Kitty Alone]
  39. Young and Tender Ladies]
  40. Charlie's Neat]
  41. Cotton-Eyed Joe]
  42. Little Sunshine]
  43. Wild Bill Jones]
  44. Great Speckled Bird
  45. Clap and Shout]
  46. Cry from the Cross
  47. Clap and Shout and Shriek]
  48. The Wagoner's Lad]
  49. The Absentee]
  50. The Coo Coo
  51. Marthis Campbell]
  52. Sally Goodin']
  53. Fiddler a Dram]
  54. Fox Chase]
  55. Old Joe Clark]
  56. Fire on the Mountain]
  57. Ways of the World]
  58. Inch Along]
  59. Skip to My Lou]
  60. St. Louis Blues
  61. Pretty Polly]
  62. Fly Around]
  63. Fox Chase]
  64. Ruby]
  65. John Henry]
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In 1959, John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers made field recordings in the mountains of Kentucky of Appalachian folk performers who were virtually unknown to the record-buying public. This is no-nonsense, sometimes raw stuff, with fiddlers, banjos, a cappella singers, and Baptist church choirs presenting folk standards, blues-influenced numbers, stomping bluegrass, even the odd country song. It's got as much of the unadulterated American white folk feel as the older recordings on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk ...

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Mountain Music of Kentucky 1996, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

UPC: 093074007723

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