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Folklorist Derek Piotr brings you the finest hidden gems of old-time, country, Americana, bluegrass and beyond. Dust on the Decks features recordings spanning a century; murder ballads, local nonsense, cowboy tales, banjo lessons, ancient Scottish song, and some of his own fieldwork, with heavy emphasis on Western North Carolina. Blood on the Tracks? Dust-to-Digital? Dust on the Decks. The old made new again? Perhaps!
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Images | Approx. start time |
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Retta Spradlin | Man of Constant Sorrow | Gettin' Up The Stairs: Traditional Music From The Cumberland Plateau Volume 1 | County Records | 1984 | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |
Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill | Sourwood Mountain | Last Wisps of the Old Ways: North Carolina Mountain Singing | Death is Not the End | 2021 | 0:02:46 (Pop-up) | |
Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill & Mrs. Lloyd Bare Hagie | Cumberland Gap | Last Wisps of the Old Ways: North Carolina Mountain Singing | Death Is Not the End | 2021 | 0:04:24 (Pop-up) | |
Mrs. Sabra Bare Hampton | Lily Shull | Last Wisps of the Old Ways: North Carolina Mountain Singing | Death is Not the End | 2021 | 0:05:15 (Pop-up) | |
Mrs. Lloyd Bare Hagie | Rowan County (The Roane Cty. Crew) | Last Wisps of the Old Ways: North Carolina Mountain Singing | Death is Not the End | 2021 | 0:08:46 (Pop-up) | |
Bunk Pettyjohn | Red River Valley | In An Arizona Town | Arizona Friends Of Folklore | 0:14:15 (Pop-up) | ||
Bunk Pettyjohn | Little Mohea | In An Arizona Town | Arizona Friends of Folklore | 0:15:25 (Pop-up) | ||
Bunk Pettyjohn | Wreck of the Number 9 | Bunk And Becky Pettyjohn | Arizona Friends of Folklore | 0:16:06 (Pop-up) | ||
Becky Pettyjohn | Who’s Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot? | Bunk And Becky Pettyjohn | Arizona Friends of Folklore | 0:18:21 (Pop-up) | ||
Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill | Bolakins | Anglo-American Ballads, Volume 2 | Rounder Records | 0:21:03 (Pop-up) | ||
Mrs. Nicola "Aunt Nicky" Pritchard (Turbyfill) | Bolakins | Last Wisps of the Old Ways: North Carolina Mountain Singing | Death is Not the End | 2021 | 0:25:11 (Pop-up) | |
Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill | "Hold up Your Hand, Old Joshua!" She Cried | Last Wisps of the Old Ways: North Carolina Mountain Singing | Death Is Not the End | 2021 | 0:28:45 (Pop-up) | |
Mrs. Nicola "Aunt Nicky" Pritchard (Turbyfill) | Frankie & Johnny | Last Wisps of the Old Ways: North Carolina Mountain Singing | Death is Not the End | 2021 | 0:34:43 (Pop-up) | |
Lois "Granny" Thomas | Brown's Ferry Blues | In An Arizona Town | Arizona Friends of Folklore | 0:39:57 (Pop-up) | ||
Lois "Granny" Thomas | Barefoot Boy | In An Arizona Town | Arizona Friends of Folklore | 0:42:05 (Pop-up) | ||
Lois "Granny" Thomas | Mind Your Own Business | In An Arizona Town | Arizona Friends of Folklore | 0:45:16 (Pop-up) | ||
Lois "Granny" Thomas | Kickin' Mule | In An Arizona Town | Arizona Friends of Folklore | 0:46:42 (Pop-up) | ||
Lois "Granny" Thomas | Changin' Business | In An Arizona Town | Arizona Friends of Folklore | 0:48:20 (Pop-up) | ||
Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill | Jim Blake | -not published- | 1939 | 0:51:55 (Pop-up) | ||
Wheeler-Lamb | Jim Blake, The Engineer | The Farmer Feeds Them All / Jim Blake, The Engineer | Victor | 1931 | 0:53:22 (Pop-up) | |
Almeda Riddle | Twilight Is Stealing | Granny Riddle's Songs And Ballads | Minstrel Records | 1977 | 0:57:36 (Pop-up) |
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@McGroovey They do! A bunch are supposedly just old and infinitely broadcasting the same looped signals, perhaps a few are still used for spy communications?
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