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Over
the Mountain
Kenny Jackson and Friends
5-String Productions CD04002
Wake Robin/Boatsman / Black Jack Grove / Eighth Day of January / Henry Lee / Nubbin Ridge / Brad Walters / Little Devil Waltz / Little Birdie / No Corn on Tygart / Midnight / Ashcan Blues / America Baily / The Peddler and His Wife / Lady Gay / Flander's Dream / Tomahawk / Over the Mountain / Silver Strand
| Wake
Robin/Boatsman
Marcus Martin's
response, when asked by Alan Lomax what he thought music was for,
was that it was ''for the upbuilding of people...the most high thing".
I learned both of these tunes from field recordings Lomax made of
Martin near Asheville, North Carolina in 1941 for the Library of Congress.
Little Birdie One of my favorite old-time banjo players has long been Morgan Sexton, who lived and died among the rugged hills and narrow valleys of southeastern Kentucky. His beautiful two-finger banjo style and his singing inspired me to work up this version of a much-played old banjo song. Kenny on banjo and vocal, Rayna on harmony vocal. Eighth Day of January This isn't much like the Eighth of January that is more widely played by fiddlers. My version is based on that of Jim Bowles, who was born in 1903 in Monroe County, Kentucky, and died in 1993. Bowles' powerful, expressive, often bluesy playing has become some of my favorite fiddle music. Kenny on fiddle, Whitt on banjo. |
Ashcan
Blues
I got inspired to make this tune while spending a week teaching
fiddle at Jay Ungar and Molly Mason's Ashokan FIddle and Dance Camp
in 2003. Kenny on fidle, Whitt on banjo, Paula on guitar. |