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from the latest Roots & Rhythm newsletter

Instrumental Music Of The Southern Appalachians
Empire Musikwerks 450 808-2
CD $12.98
20 tracks, 35 mins, essential

Faithful re-issue of landmark folk album. Original recordings were gathered in a 1956 folk song collecting trip done by Dianne Hamilton, Liam Clancy and Paul Clayton in rural Virginia and North Carolina. Etta Baker is now a legendary performer; these are her first recordings and feature her outstanding guitar work as well as fantastic performances by local musicians Hobart Smith on Fiddle and fretless Banjo, Lacey Phillips and Boone Reid on 5-string Banjo, Mrs. Edd Presnell on Dulcimer, Richard Chase on Harmonica. The track listing is the veritable foundation of American Roots music with wonderful versions of Cripple Creek/ Sourwood Mountain/ Railroad Bill/ Pretty Polly/ Amazing Grace/ John Henry and many more in deftly played instrumental form. The sound on this new edition is crisp and beautiful, marvelously bringing this essential music into the 21st century. (JM)

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