True Vine

True Vine CD $16
Smithsonian Folkways, 2003

Mike performs 23 songs and instrumentals from rural Southern tradition, with a great variety of vocal and instrumental sounds. The extensive notes include the stories behind many of the pieces, reflecting Mike's life of documenting traditional singers and players and listening in depth to early recordings.

  1. Breaking Up Ice in the Allegheny
  2. Coo Coo Bird
  3. Johnson Jinkson
  4. Little Rabbit, Where's Your Mammy?
  5. The Raftsman's Song
  6. Honeycutt's Holler
  7. Did You Ever See the Devil, Uncle Joe?
  8. Blow the Horn, Blow
  9. Old Man
  10. Spoonful
  11. Shouting in Jerusalem
  12. When Sorrows Encompass Me Round
  13. Calico
  14. Early in the Spring
  15. Freight Train
  16. Goodbye, My Little Darling
  17. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
  18. I'm Gonna Go Huntin' for the Buffalo
  19. Granddad Jim's Waltz
  20. The Golden Willow Tree
  21. California Cotillion
  22. Young Johnnie
  23. Sail Away Lad

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Mike's Music
PO Box 1592
Lexington, VA 24450

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