Appalachian Tracks

Featuring The Carter Family . Wildwood Flower . Bluegrass Clog Dancing . Clarence Ashley . The Cuckoo . Flat Mountain Girls . Truman Price . St. Anne’S Reel . Blue Ridge Mountain Blues . The Rhythm Rangellers . Annie And Mac . Johnson Boys . Clifftop . Half Past Four . Rebekah Weiler . Banjo Picker

The Crooked Road : The Crooked Road: Virginia’s Music Heritage Trail” began as an idea in January 2003. The basis of the idea is to generate tourism and economic development in the Appalachian region of Southwestern Virginia by focusing on the region’s unique musical heritage. Response to the concept from communities, musicians, music venues, and tourism organizations was positive and immediate.

Old Blue Bus : As with most rural areas, the coalfields have been experiencing a migration of its youth to the bigger cities. The Lonesome Pine Office on Youth, of Lee, Scott, and Wise counties Virginia has put together an amazing collection of traditional music from the mining region to help support their youth progams in this mining region.

Remembering Ola Belle Reed : Ola Belle said. “They were so little that the few times the Ridge Runners played down there, we would be the only show there. I remember one time we came back on a Monday after playing one of these parks…. We played every half-hour all day till the park closed. Up here the parks were bigger and there were more of them, especially in Pennsylvania. There weren’t big music parks like that back home.”

longtimecoming: Dock Boggs : Doc Boggs of Pardee, Va., who had never seen a street car nor been in a city until he went to New York to make these records of mountain tunes, played the banjo which recorded perfectly and he made a great “hit” with the officials of the company.

Birthplace of Country Music Alliance : On August 16, 1930, Grayson visited his brother’s home in nearby Virginia on foot. He’d been making a bit of money from his recordings and public appearances and seemed finally able to buy a home. He had recently made a down payment on the home place where he was reared.

Answers.com : “The Minstrel of the Appalachians”, Lunsford helped to spread the southern style of buck dancing, an energetic technique of rhythmically accompanying a tune with one’s feet that fused Scottish, Irish, Black and Cherokee dancing. Beginning with dance competitions in North Carolina, often at his home where he installed a special dance floor, Lunsford helped to turn buck dancing into a national fad.

usical Traditions : Bob Dylan once commented that Holcomb “… has a certain untamed sense of control, which makes him one of the best.” That sense of control, vocally, derives from his participation in the Old Regular Baptist church and, later, the Holiness church.

Old-Time Music : Hobart Smith says “When I was seven years old, I could play a tune on the banjer. So, my daddy, seein’ I was interested in it, he ordered me a little, small, short-necked banjer from Sears-Roebuck and I commenced pickin’ on the banjer when I was seven years old.”