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ABOUT SOUND CLIPS: RealAudio and au files
Lost Gander
Banjo instrumental. Use of harmonics and special tuning suggest
wild geese overhead.
23kb RealAudio clip | 86kb
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Freight Train
The classic lyric blues of Elizabeth Cotten. With guitar.
Poor Indian
Unaccompanied song about the Native Americans' plight.
Rockbridge Holler
A vocal "tune" or instrumental using yodels and other effects.
72kb RealAudio clip | 126kb
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Sally Goodin
Fiddle tune with fourteen variations played on trump (jaw harp).
45kb RealAudio clip | 140kb
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We're Stole and Sold from Africa
Abolitionist song from Kentucky with fiddle and mouth-harp.
Fox Chase
Harmonica solo with vocal effects which imitate and follow events
of a mountain fox chase.
Old Grey Mare
Story of a mule who gets religion and her subsequent baptism, backsliding
and ultimate fate as shoe leather. With dulcimer.
Wind and Rain
Ancient English/American ballad about the murder of a sister who
becomes a fiddle and bow. Accompanied with autoharp.
36kb RealAudio clip | 140kb
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Bonaparte's Retreat
Fiddle tune. Fiddle is tuned specially for bagpipe effect.
Walking Boss
Nineteenth century African-American song of railroad construction.
With banjo.
Tennessee Dog
Medicine show song with banjo and quills (pan pipes).
41kb RealAudio clip | 153kb
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Rolling and Tumbling Blues
A classic Mississippi Delta blues, with fretless gut-string banjo.
50kb RealAudio clip | 144kb
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Fishing Blues
Ragtime blues with guitar and mouth-harp.
Candy Girl
Solo fiddle tune played on mandola and harmonica. A favorite of
flatfoot dancers.
54kb RealAudio clip | 99kb
au clip
Prairie Ronde Waltz
Classic Cajun waltz, played on mouth-harp and fiddle.
54kb RealAudio clip | 95kb
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Quill Ditty
Vocal, pan pipes and shaker. Quill is the English name for the cane
or reed from which these pan pipes are made.
45kb RealAudio clip | 95kb
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Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train
A topical song by Uncle Dave Macon. Accompanied with banjo ukulele
played in a variety of banjo and guitar based styles.
32kb RealAudio clip | 131kb
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Roustabout
Ancient sounding African-American banjo song played on a gut-string
fretless gourd banjo.
54kb RealAudio clip | 212kb
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Arkansas Traveller
Banter between native banjo picker and lost traveller. Native wit
wins.
I'm Going to the West
1880's song. Wife reluctantly remains in Alabama when husband seeks
westward opportunity. With autoharp.
59kb RealAudio clip | 230kb
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Whooping Up Cattle
Anglo/Afro-American cowboy song. With banjo.
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