Genre: Old Time, Appalachian, Banjo This is some old timey appalachian banjo trippin folk music. Buell H. Kazee, together with Dock Boggs is not an unknown. At least if you are interested in such music or live in America. I am scratching just on the surface of old digitalized shellac records, because it's not part of my cultural history. But anyway, I just enjoy the repetitive, trance like banjo [ This is the summary, read the whole story on Website ]
Buell Kazee - The Wagoner's Lad ( buy ) (1928) When Cecil Sharp went to the Appalachian mountains in the 1910s (see previous post ), the area was already changing, with the rise of the coal industry. Immigrants came in numbers to build roads and work in the mines. Among them were Afro-americans, freed from slavery and looking for better life conditions. The meeting of these musical traditions, the Appalachian and the Afro-american gave birth to what would soon be called country music. While the British and Celtic tradition relied on violin [...]
Does a body good. Welcome to the third and final installment of our humble series on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music . For those of you who've missed the previous installments, please scroll down to our two previous posts. Volume 3 of the Anthology , Songs, features blues and non-narrative songs, many mysterious in origin. The strangest and most otherworldly tunes are found on the Songs discs. More importantly, Songs is where Harry Smith's skill as an editor and compiler is to be admired. Essentially, Smith was putting together a [...]
"i'm glad to say my dreams came true. i saw america changed by music. or whatever you people are saying..." saw rani singh's documentary on harry smith's anthology of american folk music tonight. and like the recent anthology remixed exhibition i liked it but left me wanting more of him and the music rather than others and their [...]
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