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Tips for traveling the Crooked Road and using this book -- Introduction -- Why so much music here? -- Sources of the music: the Blue Ridge as the first American blender -- Europe meets Africa in the tidewater -- The banjo. The African banjo ; The wooden banjo ; Why blacks gave up the banjo -- The fiddle. Violinist or fiddler? ; Fiddling style along the Crooked Road ; Fiddling contests -- The guitar -- The hillbilly reinvention of the guitar -- Luthiers and violin makers -- Technology, older music, and the radio revolution -- New folks in the audience -- Bluegrass and old-time music defined -- Franklin County and Rocky Mount -- Patrick County and Stuart -- Floyd County and Floyd -- Carroll County and Hillsville -- Grayson County and Galax -- Washington County, Abingdon, Damascus, and Bristol -- Scott County and Gate City -- Lee County and Jonesville -- Wise County, Coeburn, Norton, and Big Stone Gap -- Dickenson County and Clintwood -- Music samples from the Crooked Road. |
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Accompanying CD (Disc A). Love of the mountains / Lost and Found -- Old-time fire in the mountain / Sam Connor and Dent Wimmer -- I called my baby long distance / Archie Edwards -- Dry Hill / The Dry Hill Draggers -- Rocky Mount shout / Rabbit Muse -- Granny will your dog bite? / Floyd County Ramblers -- Old Jake Gillie / Korn Kutters -- Big Ball in Boston / Kenny and Amanda Smith Band -- Suzanna gal / Dad Blackard's Moonshiners -- Darling child / Sammy Shelor with Kirk Sutphin -- Liberty / Richard Bowman Family -- A few more years / James King with Longview -- Baptist shout / Frank Jenkins -- The house carpenter / Abe Horton -- Speak to me little darling / Ted Lundy with Bob Paisley and the Southern Mountain Boys -- Sail away ladies / Bonnie Russell with the Russell Family -- Wildwood flower / Kilby Snow -- Boating up the Sandy River / Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters -- Those cruel slavery days / Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters -- Leaving Grayson / Steve Barr -- New East Virginia Blues / No Speed Limit -- Sugar Hill / Crockett Ward & His Boys -- Breaking up Christmas / Eddie Bond, Kirk Sutphin, Wayne Henderson, Herb Key -- Charlie, he's a good old man / Kelly Harrell -- Half shaved / Wade Ward -- Short life of trouble / G. B. Grayson and Henry Whitter -- |
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Accompanying CD (Disc B). Doc Harris' hornpipe / Jimmy Arnold -- Old Molly Hare / Haywood Blevins -- Larry's song / Big Country Bluegrass -- Don't get trouble in your mind / Frank Blevins and His Tar Heel Rattlers -- Home sweet home / E. C. and Orna Ball -- A rake and a rambling boy / Albert Hash and the Whitetop Mountain Band -- The farmer's curst wife / Horton Baker -- Beans and cornbread / Wayne Henderson -- Arkansas traveler / Wayne Henderson, Junior Daughtery, Red Rector, Don Stover, Edmond Beaudreau -- The devil's dream / Hobart Smith -- Cousin Sally Brown / Sweet Brothers -- Fishers' hornpipe / Wyatt Rice -- Deep settled peace / Kay Justice with Ginny Hawker -- Better farther on / Chestnut Grove Quartet -- Something got holt of me / Curly King -- Johnson boys / Grant Brothers -- Taking the Crooked Road home / Linda Lay -- 'Mid the green fields of Virginia / Carter Family -- Mother's Bible / Good Shepherd Quartet -- Barnyard dance / Martin, Bogan and Armstrong -- False hearted lover / Dock Boggs -- Swing down that chariot / Cooke Duet -- Blue Ridge Mountain sunset / Jim and Jesse (McReynolds) -- Turn back, turn back / Mullins Family -- White dove / Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys -- Bright morning star / Cry from the Cross, Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys. |
| Abstract |
The Crooked Road is a 253-mile stretch of highway in southwestern Virginia. This remote area, which is one of the places that gave birth to American music, has been a musical hotbed for generations. The route includes the Ralph Stanley Museum, the Carter Family Fold, the Birthplace of Country Music Alliance Museum, the Blue Ridge Music Center, the Rex Theater, the Floyd Country Store, and the Blue Ridge Institute and Museum. Covering the 10 counties through which the road passes, this guide provides information about the area's musical attractions as well as opportunities to enjoy local crafts, outdoor recreation, lodging, and dining. Music lovers will also have the chance to take a piece of the Crooked Road home with them, thanks to the pair of CDs containing 53 examples of the old-time, bluegrass, Piedmont blues, Anglo-American ballads, and Appalachian gospel music that made the area famous. |
| Local note | Joyner-JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDINGS. SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER Music CD-9157. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-218) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006007273 |
| ISBN | 0895873273 |
| ISBN | 9780895873279 |
