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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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Mrs. G.A. Griffin | Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie | John Lomax recording | not on label | 1939 | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |
Dick Devall | Sitting at My Window, Sad and Lonely | Alan Lomax recording | not on label | 1946 | 0:01:53 (Pop-up) | |
Mickey Miller | East Virginia | Mickey Miller Sings American Folk Songs | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings | 1959 | 0:03:43 (Pop-up) | |
Bonnie Dodd & Murray Lewis | Ozark Mountain Rose | Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers and Hoss Hair Pullers | Dust-to-Digital | 2014 | 0:05:57 (Pop-up) | |
Lena Bare Turbyfill | Skip to My Lou | Ever Since We've Known It: More North Carolina Mountain Singing | Death is Not the End | 2022 | 0:09:52 (Pop-up) | |
Lena Bare Turbyfill and Ben Dugger | Cindy | Ever Since We've Known It: More North Carolina Mountain Singing | Death is Not the End | 2022 | 0:10:58 (Pop-up) | |
Dan Tate | Cindy | Dan Tate: Records from the collections of Peter Hoover & Ray Alden | Field Recorders' Collective | 2015 | 0:12:06 (Pop-up) | |
Marshall Ward | Blue Ride Mountain Blues | Ever Since We've Known It: More North Carolina Mountain Singing | Death is Not the End | 2022 | 0:12:46 (Pop-up) | |
Ben Dugger | Sourwood Mountain | Herbert Halpert recording | not on label | 1939 | 0:15:21 (Pop-up) | |
Mrs. Peter Mushrow | Swansea Town | MacEdward Leach recording | Not On Label | 0:17:32 (Pop-up) | ||
Terry Yarnell | Lucy Wan | Recorded by Peggy Seeger | Not On Label | 1968 | 0:20:27 (Pop-up) | |
William Ritter | The Lass of Loch Royal | Zoom ballad swap | Not On Label | 2021 | 0:24:35 (Pop-up) | |
Seena Helms | The Three Babes | Hand-Me-Down Music: Old Songs, Old Friends, Vol. 1 Traditional Music of Union County, North Carolina | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings | 1979 | 0:32:25 (Pop-up) | |
Seena Helms | Barbara Allen | Hand-Me-Down Music: Old Songs, Old Friends, Vol. 1 Traditional Music of Union County, North Carolina | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings | 1979 | 0:34:26 (Pop-up) | |
Seena Helms | Groundhog | Hand-Me-Down Music: Old Songs, Old Friends, Vol. 1 Traditional Music of Union County, North Carolina | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings | 1979 | 0:37:48 (Pop-up) | |
Willie Williams | Boll Weevil | Field Recordings Vol. 12: Virginia & South Carolina (1936-1940) | Document Records | 1998 | 0:39:13 (Pop-up) | |
Willie Williams | Railroad Wreck | Field Recordings Vol. 12: Virginia & South Carolina (1936-1940) | Document Records | 1998 | 0:40:51 (Pop-up) | |
Christine & Katharine Shipp | Uncle Rabbit, Sea Lion Woman | Herbert Halpert recording | Not On Label | 1939 | 0:42:04 (Pop-up) | |
Mose Harris | The Limkin | Lamkin: Versions & Variants Across the Northern Hemisphere | Death is Not the End | 2022 | 0:44:57 (Pop-up) | |
W.T. Ellison | Lillie Shaw | Bobby McMillon recording | Not On Label | 1973 | 0:48:28 (Pop-up) | |
The Virginia Mountain Boys | Lily Shaw | Old Time Bluegrass from Grayson and Carroll Counties, Virginia: Vol. 3 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings | 1980 | 0:49:19 (Pop-up) | |
Orville Hicks | Pretty Polly | Home recording | 0:54:52 (Pop-up) | |||
Orville Hicks | Four Nights of a Drunk | Home recording | 0:57:30 (Pop-up) |
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ultradamno:
The Count of Al Dente:
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The Butterman:
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The Butterman:
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ultradamno:
- A Groundhog
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-A Groundhog
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been listening, digging 😺😺
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slugluv1313:
gotta listen to the archives, see if this Boll Weevil is the same as in one of my Mom's old books
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