STEPHEN WADE: Across the Amerikee - Showpieces from Coal Camp to Cattle Trail

Grassroots singers and players throughout the United States have long cultivated their own varieties of recital music. A simple dance tune transforms into a concert masterpiece; a personal plaint becomes emblematic of an era. With banjo and occasional guitar, Stephen Wade explores this music made for music’s sake. His selections draw from Southern sources as well as Northern interpreters, centering on lyric folksong and old-time instrumentals transmitted, as one of its older players memorably said, “across the Amerikee.” 62 minutes, 44-page booklet with extensive notes.

1 Wild Horse
2 Come on Buddie, Don't You Want to Go
3 Chesley Chancey's Cumberland Gap
4 Swing and Turn, Jubilee
5 Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
6 Diamond Joe
7 Puncheon Camps
8 Hard Head Hardy
9 KC Whistle
10 Willie Moore
11 Uncle Dave's Fandango
12 Goodbye, Old Paint
13 Tom Paley's John Henry
14 Trouble at the Coal Creek Mines
15 Gray Eagle
16 Lost John
17 Shortenin' Bread
18 Reno Factory/Brown Skin Blues
19 Sourwood Mountain
20 In the Pines
21 Cherry Blossom Waltz