![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Bascom Lamar Lunsford-I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Recorded in April 1928 in Ashland, Kentucky. Another banjo tune with lyrics that could be from any one of a number of tunes, and which have no apparent logical relationship with each other. This particular tune, which became a folkie staple during the Great Folk Scare, is related to tunes known as "Tempie," "Darling Where Have You Been So Long," "Sammie, Where Have You Been So Long," and "I Don't Like No Railroad Man." In "When We Were Good: The Folk Revival" Robert Cantwell says: "Listen to 'I ...
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
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| Bascom Lamar Lunsford-Dry Bones - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Recorded in February 1928 in Ashland, Kentucky. A rare example of the banjo used in a religious tune. This tune contains references to Enoch (Gen 5:21-24), Paul (Acts 16:25-26), Moses (Exo 3:2) and a strange account out of Ezekiel about walking bones (Ezek 37:1-10), not to mention Eve and "Satan a-tempting me."
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Christian; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
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| Bascom Lamar Lunsford-Little Turtle Dove - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Recorded in 1928 most likely in Ashland, Kentucky. Lunsford was known as "The Minstrel of the Appalachians." In addition ot banjo player and collector of mountain tunes, Lunsford was also a country lawyer. This particular tune is a composite of various tunes, many of which have no relation one to the other. Some of the lines of this tune may be from "The Storms Are On The Ocean" and "Fare You Well, My Own True Love."
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
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| Bascom Lamar Lunsford-Lost John Dean - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Recorded in February 1928 in Ashland, Kentucky. It is claimed that this tune is based on an event involving a black trusty incarcerated in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It appears that he was to be the guinea pig in a test concerning the smelling reliability of a new pack of bloodhounds. The trusty, however, used a barrell to outwit the hounds and escaped to parts unknown.
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
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