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FRC Store – 2004 CDs
You will find the most recent issues (2008) here.
Please follow the links to our Special
CD Sets, 2005, 2006,
2007 and Young
Musician Series CDs and our photograph
store.
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FRC2004 - 2004 ten-CD set– all for one price of $125.
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FRC101
– Fred Cockerham (From the
collection of Ray Alden) $15 per disc
This CD honors one of North Carolina's great traditional musicians,
Fred Cockerham. Fred was born in 1905 in the Round Peak community
of Surry County, North Carolina. He learned to fiddle by sneaking
practice on his brother's fiddle, later becoming a professional
musician. Fred changed his original "framming" banjo style
to emulate the high precision rhythmic technique of Round Peak's
great clawhammer player, Charlie Lowe. This CD presents a wide ranging
sample of Fred's expressive fiddle, banjo and singing abilities.
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FRC102 – Band in Transition (From
the collection of Ray Alden) $15 per disc
This CD concentrates on the band rather than the individual and addresses
what happened to the sound of one of old time music's great modern
bands when certain members left and others joined. Benton Flippen
joined North Carolina's Camp Creek Boys in the late 1960s and shortly
after formed his own band, the Smokey Valley Boys, circa 1971. Although
Paul Sutphin endowed both bands with his strong vocal lead, the new
banjo and mandolin players, along with Benton's leadership on fiddle,
changed the sound. Finally, the last six tracks hint at what the Camp
Creeks Boys would have sounded like if Tommy Jarrell had joined the
band. Track
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FRC201 – Roan Mountain Hilltoppers In
Concert
(From the collection
of the Brandwine Friends of Old Time Music) $15 per disc
The Roan Mountain Hilltoppers are a world-famous old-time band from
the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Birchfield family members
learned the old tunes and ballads from their father and uncles and
continue to play in a style popular in the early 1900s. This 1986
concert at the Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music features Joe on
fiddle with his brother Creed on banjo and his son Bill on guitar.
Bill's wife Janice Birchfield plays washtub bass. As Janice said,
"We play the way our family always has: straight, traditional sounds."
Their music has been called mesmerizing, raw, rapid-fire, and trance-inducing.
The surviving members of the original Hilltopper band continue to
play in the same hard-driving East-Tennessee style, making the band
a favorite among dancers. Track
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FRC202 – Old-Time Music from Clay &
Calhoun Counties, WV
(From the
collection of the Brandwine Friends of Old Time Music) $15 per disc
Four master traditional musicians from central West Virginia performing
live at the 1975 Brandywine Mountain Music Convention. Skilled banjoist
and singer Phoeba Cottrell Parsons (1908-2001), champion fiddler Ira
J. Mullins (1902-1987) and popular mountain artist and banjo player
Jenes Cottrell (d. 1980) play alongside Wilson Douglas (1922-1999),
an accomplished fiddler who possessed an ancient repertoire. The Morris
Brothers accompany these artists and act as MC during the concerts.
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FRC301 – Norman Edmonds and the Old Timers,
Volume 1
(From the collection
of Andy Cahan) $15 per disc
These recordings feature Norman Edmonds, (1889-1976) of Hillsville,
Virginia, on the fiddle. He is accompanied by The Old Timers, with
Rufus Quesinberry on banjo and his sons John, Cecil and Paul Edmonds
on guitars. The selections were gathered from 15 minute programs made
from January to September 1958 for Galax radio. The Old Timers Show,
recorded by Edmond's son Rush, began in the mid 1950s and was on the
air for fifteen minutes every Saturday morning until circa 1970. The
Edmonds family generously granted Andy Cahan permission to copy the
original tapes during the 1980s. Track
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FRC302 – Norman Edmonds and the Old Timers,
Volume 2
(From the collection
of Andy Cahan) $15 per disc
These recordings feature Norman Edmonds, (1889-1976) of Hillsville,
Virginia, on the fiddle and accompanied by his band The Old Timers
(Rufus Quesinberry on banjo and his sons John, Cecil and Paul Edmonds
on guitars). The selections are remastered from copies of the original
tapes, recorded by Edmonds' son Rush for 15 minute programs heard
on Galax radio every Saturday morning from the mid 1950's until around
1970. On the last few tracks, Nelson Edmonds plays bass and Charles
Hawkes plays bluegrass banjo. The Edmonds family generously granted
Andy Cahan permission to copy the original tapes during the 1980s.
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FRC401 – Jimmy
Wheeler (From the collection of
Jeff Goehring) $15 per disc
These recordings feature Jimmy Wheeler on fiddle and Jeff Goehring
on guitar, and were made at Jimmy's home in Portsmouth, Ohio in
the mid 1980s when Jimmy was in his late 60s. Jimmy's fiddling was
typical of a very articulate, melodic style prevalent in northern
Kentucky and southern Ohio. Some of the older fiddlers Jimmy mentioned
as influences were his father Jim Wheeler, Jesse Large, Asa Neal,
Forrest Pick, Morris Allen, and Freddy Edwards. Jimmy worked as
a stringed-instrument repairman and as a musician, performing fiddle
for dances, and guitar and bass for more popular music at local
clubs. He also played guitar with Forrest Pick on fiddle for many
years as "the Personality Boys" on radio station WPAY
in Portsmouth. Track
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FRC402 – Ward Jarvis (From
the collection of Jeff Goehring) $15 per disc
These recordings feature Ward Jarvis on fiddle, Dana Loomis on banjo,
and Jeff Goehring on guitar, and were made at Ward's home in Stewart,
Ohio in 1977. James Ward Jarvis, born in 1894, moved to Athens County,
Ohio from Calhoun County, West Virginia in the late 1940s to work
in the timber industry. Ward's repertoire reflects his West Virginia
origin, with many archaic open- tuned pieces, as well as several more
melodic pieces popular in the 1920s and 30s, including his wonderful
rendition of the 1950s Tommy Jackson composition, Tomahawk. Track
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FRC501 – Uncle Charlie Higgins, Wade
Ward & Dale Poe
(From the
collection of Peter Hoover) $15 per disc
These recordings are a small sample of the bread-and-butter music-making
of Charlie Higgins (fiddle and banjo), Wade Ward (banjo and fiddle),
and Dale Poe (guitar), three accomplished old-time musicians from
Grayson County in southwestern Virginia. A couple of times a month
for years, they would huddle together on the flat bed of a pickup
truck and play locally familiar tunes to draw in customers for a country
auction service. These recordings, made by Peter Hoover in Charlie
and Wade's living rooms in 1959, document the facility and ease, and
broad scope, that they brought to their repertoire. Track
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FRC502 – Marcus Martin
(From the collection of Peter Hoover) $15 per disc
These recordings, made by Peter Hoover in the late fifties and early
sixties near Swannanoa, North Carolina, document the seminal fiddling
of Marcus Martin. Recorded first by field workers from the Library
of Congress in the thirties, Marcus combined in his repertoire the
archaic tunes he learned from Manco Sneed with jazzy numbers from
then-contemporary recordings of Arthur Smith. A primary source for
many of the crosstuned fiddle tunes that were such a novelty to the
folk revival, his recordings remain a singular insight into Appalachian
fiddling. Track
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