RTP-area local music and culture

[smithers <ansmithers AT gmail.com>]

oops.
actually released by Pinecone
http://www.pinecone.org/
but still available through the Folklife Institute.


On Nov 19, 1:24=A0pm, smithers <ansmith... AT gmail.com> wrote:
> New CD just out via the NC Folklife Institute. =A0Pretty awesome.
> get it here:http://www.ncfolk.org/Products/Going-Down-to-Raleigh__CD026.a=
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>
> Going Down to Raleigh
> SKU CD026
>
> Going Down to Raleigh: Stringband Music in the North CarolinaPiedmont
> 1976-1998 is a two-disc anthology that presents field recordings of
> stringband music from the central Piedmont of North Carolina. The
> musicians featured in the project are fiddlers, banjo players,
> guitarists, singers, and a hammered dulcimer player who first learned
> their music from family and friends in the early decades of the
> twentieth century. Going down to Raleigh includes performances by
> Virgil Craven, Lauchlin Shaw, A.C. Overton, Joe and Odell Thompson,
> Leonard Eubanks, Marvin Gaster, Jack Jones, Smith McInnis, Fred Olson
> and Wade Yates, among others. Wayne Martin, who is Folklife Director
> of the North Carolina Arts Council and an old-time fiddler, made many
> of the field recordings and produced the anthology, which includes a
> forty-page booklet with notes and photographs of the musicians.
>
> Your Price =A0 =A0 =A0$25.00