TRADITIONAL MUSIC CLASSICS
-516 (VA)
DVD-Rare Footage From the 1960s (New DVD)
(Doc Watson-Roscoe Holcomb-Buell Kazee-Kilby Snow)
DVD Video from Yazoo called - Traditional Music Classics
SCENE ACCESS INCLUDES:
DOC WATSON:
1. Maggie Walker Blues
2. Goin' Down Lee Highway
3. Travelling Man
4. Deep River Blues
5. St. James Hospital
6. John Henry
7. Mountain Dew
ROSCOE HOLCOMB:
1. Hook and Line
2. Graveyard Blues
3. Pretty Fair Miss
BUELL KAZEE:
1. Orphan Girl
2. John Hardy
KILBY SNOW:
1. Ragged But Right
2. Arkansas Traveller
3. John Henry
4. Wind and Rain
5. Greenback Dollar
6. Old Molly Hare
7. I Will Arise
8. Yankety Yank
Few areas have been as expansive with their treasures of traditional
song as the Appalachians. The isolated small towns, villages and hollows
in the section running from Virginia through North Carolina, Kentucky
and Tennessee is nearly unsurpassed as a repository of old-time music
and ballads reaching back to the time of settlement.
Doc Watson was born into a musical family with a repertoire
of old time songs and ballads. His father taught him how to
play the five string banjo when he was young, and doc later
taught himself guitar and mandolin. His warm appealing
vocals and consummate flat picking have earned him a wide
following and helped expand the appeal of traditional Southern music.
He is joined by Fred Price (fiddle) and Clint Howard (guitar),
neighboring Tennessee farmers from musical families who
joined Doc after the death of Clarence "tom" Ashley, the musician
with whom they commenced playing college concerts in the 1960s.
Includes Maggie Walker Blues, Traveling Man, Lee Highway Blues,
St. James Hospital, and more.
The musical style of roscoe Holcomb, the banjo/guitar player
from Hazard, Kentucky, represents the collective heritage of
local musicians, combined with his Baptist upbringing and
exposure to the blues. The intensity he brings to traditional
performance illustrates the uncompromising musical attack
that led Eric Clapton to call him "his favorite country musician.
"Includes Free Little Bird, Fair Miss in the Garden, Graveyard Blues...
Buell Kazee was an exceptional singer and superb traditional
banjoist from Kentucky who recorded over 50 songs in the 1920s,
many of them ancient ballads. He later became an ordained
minister and continued to collect traditional mountain music.
Includes The Orphan girl, John Hardy and more.
John Kilby Snow was an outstanding autoharpist who was virtually
unknown until discovered by Mike Seeger, who was responsible
for bringing him to a wider audience in the 1960s. Kilby mastered
an unusual signature technique of playing the autoharp, strumming
left-handed below the chord bars and utilizing what he called
"drag notes," which he demonstrates in this video.
Accompanied by Mike Seeger, Kilby plays Ragged But right,
Greenback Dollar, ,Pretty Polly, What A Friend We Have In Jesus...
