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Various Artists - Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line (2015)

Various Artists - Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line (2015)

BAND/ARTIST: Various Artists

  • Title: Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line
  • Year Of Release: 2015
  • Label: Dust-to-Digital ‎– DTD-40
  • Genre: Folk
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue+.log)
  • Total Time: 2:27:41
  • Total Size: 761 MB
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Dust-to-Digital is excited to present the first in-depth look at the life of Ola Belle Reed, a groundbreaking artist who is one of the all-time greatest performers of authentic, old-time music.
Ola Belle Reed’s 1960s recordings, some of the earliest she ever made and available here for the very first time, are counter-balanced by a disc of modern-day field recordings of her descendants and those within her Appalachian community that she inspired. This deluxe edition highlights Ola Belle’s deep repertoire – folk ballads, minstrel songs, country standards, and originals – and traces the impact her music made and is still making today.

ABOUT THIS RELEASE
In 1966, folklorist Henry Glassie traveled from Philadelphia to the town of Oxford, Pennsylvania to see Alex & Ola Belle and the New River Boys and Girls play their exciting brand of Southern mountain music live, on the air, in the back of the Campbell’s Corner general store.
Over the next two years, Glassie would record the deep repertoire of Ola Belle Reed – folk ballads, minstrel songs, country standards, and originals like “I’ve Endured,” penned by Ola Belle herself. Glassie also chronicled the remarkable story of the migration of communities from the Blue Ridge Mountains toward the Mason-Dixon Line prior to WWII.
Some four decades later, Maryland state folklorist Clifford Murphy struck out to discover if this rich musical tradition still existed in the small Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania towns where it once flourished in 2009. Murphy, amazed by what he encountered, began making audio recordings to document the descendants of Ola Belle’s musical legacy. Ola Belle Reed died in 2002 yet her influence is still reverberating throughout old time and traditional music.

ABOUT OLA BELLE REED
Born to a musical family in the mountains of Ashe County, North Carolina in 1913, Ola Belle Reed became a prolific songwriter and performer. Known for her unique style of banjo playing and singing, Ola Belle Reed inspired many musicians throughout her life. Thirteen years after her death in 2002 yet her influence is still reverberating throughout old time and traditional music.
Read an interview with Henry Glassie about these recordings.
In January of 1966, folklore graduate student Henry Glassie made the first professional solo recordings of Ola Belle Reed. Glassie would go on to become one of the most celebrated folklorists in the United States, a distinguished professor, and a renowned scholar throughout the world. Reed would go on to become one of the leading lights of the Folk Music Revival and winner of the prestigious National Heritage Fellowship. Glassie’s landmark collection of early Ola Belle Reed recordings were recently deposited in the Archives of Traditional Music, an ethnographic sound archive located at Indiana University in Bloomington.
This project is a co-production between Dust-to-Digital, Maryland State Arts Council and Indiana University.

1.01 - Ola Belle Reed - Uncloudy Day (2:29)
1.02 - Ola Belle Reed, Alex Campbell, John Miller - My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountain (2:33)
1.03 - Alex Campbell, Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby - Bringing in the Georgia Mail (2:03)
1.04 - Ola Belle Reed - Train 45 (1:53)
1.05 - Ola Belle Reed - The Worried Man Blues (2:04)
1.06 - Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby - The Worried Man Blues (2:31)
1.07 - Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby, John Miller - The Ranger's Command (3:47)
1.08 - Ola Belle Reed, John Miller, Burl Kilby - Big Kid's Barroom (3:04)
1.09 - Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby - The Miller's Will (3:57)
1.10 - Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby - Black Jack Davy (1:57)
1.11 - Ola Belle Reed, Alex Campbell, John Miller - John Hardy (2:42)
1.12 - Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby, John Miller - Single Girl (2:16)
1.13 - Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby - Kitty Wells (2:14)
1.14 - Ola Belle Reed, John Miller, Burl Kilby - The Orphan Girl (3:18)
1.15 - Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby - I've Always Been a Rambler (3:25)
1.16 - Ola Belle Reed - Undone in Sorrow (2:57)
1.17 - Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby, John Miller - You Led Me to the Wrong (3:52)
1.18 - Ola Belle Reed - Absalom My Son, My Son (0:50)
1.19 - Ola Belle Reed, John Miller - Amazing Grace (3:35)
1.20 - Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby, John Miller - Six Feet of Earth (2:32)
1.21 - Ola Belle Reed - All the Dark Places (2:43)
1.22 - Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby, John Miller - I'm Going Through (4:38)
1.23 - Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby, John Miller - I've Endured (4:10)
1.24 - Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby, John Miller - I've Endured (2:35)
2.16 - Dave Reed - John Hardy/John Henry (1:25)
2.01 - Hugh Campbell - Undone in Sorrow (2:45)
2.02 - Dave Reed - Plucking the Strings (1:45)
2.03 - T.J. Lundy, Danny Paisley, Ryan Paisley - Cherokee Shuffle (3:03)
2.04 - Danny Paisley, Ryan Paisley, T.J. Lundy - I'm Longing for a Love I'll Never Know (2:21)
2.05 - Burl Kilby - Sally Goodin (1:18)
2.06 - Hugh Campbell - Story of Tom Moore, the Gravedigger (1:17)
2.07 - Hugh Campbell - Footprints Left Below (3:15)
2.08 - The Debusk-Weaver Family - Leave It There (3:13)
2.09 - DeBusk-Weaver Family with Dave Reed - Six Hours on the Cross (3:59)
2.10 - Dave Reed - John Hardy (1:05)
2.11 - Zane Campbell - Cherokee Eyes (2:53)
2.12 - Burl Kilby - High on a Mountain (0:49)
2.13 - Hugh Campbell - Fiddle on the Wall (4:02)
2.14 - T.J. Lundy, Ryan Paisley, Danny Paisley - Rachel (1:46)
2.15 - Danny Paisley, Ryan Paisley, T.J. Lundy - The Old Swinging Bridge (2:57)
2.17 - Zane and Hugh Campbell - Stolen Love (3:21)
2.18 - Burton DeBusk - The Buzzard and the Monkey (1:18)
2.19 - Burton DeBusk - The Pussycat and the Bulldog (0:43)
2.20 - Dave Reed - Preacher and the Bear (1:04)
2.21 - Burl Kilby - Turkey in the Straw (0:30)
2.22 - T.J. Lundy, Danny Paisley, Ryan Paisley - Ryestraw (1:13)
2.23 - Hugh Campbell, Dave Reed - The Butcher Boy (3:10)
2.24 - Dave Reed - Simple Man (2:28)
2.25 - Dave Reed - 1,000 Light Years Away (1:50)
2.26 - DeBusk-Weaver Family with Hugh Campbell - I Feel Like Traveling On (3:26)
2.27 - Danny Paisley, T.J. Lundy, Ryan Paisley - New River Train (2:17)
2.28 - Ryan Paisley, T.J. Lundy, Danny Paisley - Salt Creek (2:44)
2.29 - Burl Kilby - Cumberland Gap (0:52)
2.30 - Hugh Campbell - Boxes Full of Memories (2:42)
2.31 - Hugh Campbell - Father, Listen (4:18)
2.32 - Danny Paisley, Ryan Paisley, T.J. Lundy - My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains (2:16)
2.33 - Zane Campbell - Family Graveyard (4:31)
2.34 - Zane and Hugh Campbell, Dave Reed, the DeBusk-Weaver Family - Over in the Gloryland (3:03)



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