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Across the Blue Ridge #79- Fourth of July, and some good-time listening

by Paul Brown

A powerful and haunting rendition of “Washington’s March” performed by the late West Virginia fiddler Edden Hammons features on the Fourth of July segment in this Across the Blue Ridge episode. Paul Brown

This Fourth of July week show explores the confluence of American and British sounds of the American Revolution in the contemporary U.S. We have a segment treating us to several guises of a fiddle tune memorializing George Washington -- and African-American tunes and songs on fife and drum in the 20th Century south.  One of those tunes also shows up as a fiddle tune and song throughout the south.  Plus … some great good-time listening with love songs, a bit of blues, and fiddle tunes old and new in traditional mountain style and bluegrass. 

Playlist

  1. Norman In The Woodland
    Jason Carter
    On The Move
     
  2. Washington's March
    Edden Hammons
    Edden Hammons Collection V. 1
     
  3. Washington's March
    Ernie Carpenter
    Old Time Fiddle Tunes From The Elk River Country
     
  4. Washington's March
    David Bragger
    Big Fancy
     
  5. Stepping Place
    Otha Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band
    Everybody Hollerin' Goat
     
  6. Granny, Do Your Dog Bite?
    Otha Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band
    Everybody Hollerin' Goat
     
  7. Granny Will Your Dog Bite?
    Tommy Jarrell
    The Legacy Of Tommy Jarrell V. 2 Rainbow Sign
     
  8. Cotton Blossom
    Fields Ward
    Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie
     
  9. Break 1 - Stepping Place
    Otha Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band
    Everybody Hollerin' Goat
     
  10. Going Like Wildfire
    Mac Wiseman
    Early Dot Recordings Vol. 3
     
  11. A Faded Red Ribbon
    The Earls of Leicester
    Rattle & Roar
     
  12. When I Stop Dreaming
    Jim & Jesse 
    The Old Dominion Masters
     
  13. Cash On The Barrelhead
    Louvin Brothers
    Handpicked Songs
     
  14. Red River Blues
    Lesley Riddle
    Classic Appalachian Blues
     
  15. Lovin' On Backstreets
    Courtney Granger
    Beneath Still Waters
     
  16. Please Baby
    Ginny Hawker & Tracy Schwarz
    Draw Closer
     
  17. Break 2 - Old Dad
    Howard Joines
    Old Time Fiddle Music of Alleghany County, NC
     
  18. Bone Yard
    Garry Harrison
    Red Prairie Dawn
     
  19. Road to Westfield
    Garry Harrison
    Red Prairie Dawn
     
  20. Ida Red
    Joe Newberry
    Two Hands
     
  21. Sally Anne
    Sidna & Fulton Myers
    Clawhammer Banjo 2
     
  22. I'm Happy To Know
    High Fidelity
    High Fidelity
     
  23. Silly Bill
    The Hillbillies
    Vol. 1 1925-1926

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