  CD 1 Hot Burrito Breakdown - Mike Munford Going Home - Roni Stoneman Sugarfoot Rag - Tom Adams The Ghost on Hippie Hill - Victor Furtado Paddy on the Turnpike - Don Bryant Things in Life - Randy Barrett Hazel Creek - Murphy Henry Bird Bath - Mark Delaney Marching Through Glenville - Bill Runkle Allegretto con Melanzane - Ira Gitlin Farewell Blues - Kevin Church Ninety Degrees - Mark Schatz Lickity Split - Chris Warner Dazed - Tim Kruzic Cumberland Gap - Paul Brown Goldfield - Bill Blackburn Cedar City Blues - Eddie Adcock Banjoland - Tom Neal Scramble - John Brunschwyler & Brennen Ernst Dear Old Dixie - Dick Smith CD2 Blue Grass Stomp - Fred Geiger Man Gave Names to all the Animals - Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer Follow the Leader - Merl Johnson Dying on the Field of Battle - David McLaughlin Lori Ann - Scott Walker Phoebe's Lullaby - Gina Clowes Bolen's Bounce - Marc Bolen Once I Had an Old Banjo / Billy in the Low Ground - Stephen Wade My Little Home in West Virginia - Bill Emerson Angelina Baker - Joe Zauner Crossing the Blue Ridge - Billy Wheeler The Drunken Fiddler - Reed Martin Cripple Creek - John Farmer Rocky the Wonder Dog - Keith Arneson Sawmill Shuffle - Pete Kuykendall Big Sciota - Doug McKelway The Baltimore Fire - Joe Herrmann Purple Creek - Casey Henry Upper Elk Creek - Walter Hensley My Old Home in Baltimore - Russ Carson During and immediately afterWorldWar II, tens of thousands of rural folks relocated from the Appalachian and Piedmont regions of southwest Virginia,West Virginia, the western Carolinas, and east Tennessee to the greater Washington-Baltimore area bringing their cultural preferences and sometimes talents as well. The main attractions came from expanding employment opportunities in the building, manufacturing, and service trades. Those with musical ability could find supplemental and part-time jobs on the flourishing club scene. Country music parks such as New River Ranch and Sunset Park were not all that far away and within driving distance of not only the D. C.-Baltimore region but also greater Philadelphia. Musical prowess could also be displayed at the talent contests in Warrenton, Virginia or journey southward to the Old Dominion Barn Dance in Richmond. Local deejay Don Owens stimulated interest in bluegrass music by encouraging local musicians to visit recording studios. The most fortunate of these forged successful part-time, and for a few, full-time careers. This monumental project is designed by coproducers Mark Delaney & Randy Barrett—noted players in their own right—to highlight the impressive banjo work exemplified by these forty banjo pickers who took part in making the Greater Washington-Baltimore area one of the major regional concentrations of bluegrass music in America. It achieves the goal that the producers and TomMindte set out to accomplish. In so doing, this constitutes a major sound document in the history of a major musical genre. ~Ivan Tribe |
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