RTP-area local music and culture

[paok <bluefreaky AT earthlink.net>]

This is really cool--do you think it'll be released on vinyl?

p

-----Original Message-----
>From: smithers <ansmithers AT gmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 19, 2009 1:24 PM
>To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: Going Down to Raleigh
>
>New CD just out via the NC Folklife Institute.  Pretty awesome.
>get it here:
>http://www.ncfolk.org/Products/Going-Down-to-Raleigh__CD026.aspx
>
>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     $25.00
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