WARNER COLLECTION, VOL. 1: Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still

Warner Collection, Vol. 1

Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still

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An overview of the field recordings of traditional American music made by song collectors Anne and Frank Warner along the Eastern Seaboard from 1940 to 1966 - "real deal" folk songs from the source.

tracks

1 House Carpenter - Rebecca King Jones
2 Tom Dooley - Frank Proffitt
3 Single Girl - Frank Proffitt
4 Freight Train Blues - Richard Hamilton
5 Conversation with Lee Monroe Presnell
6 I Went to See My Molly - Lee Monroe Presnell
7 River of Life - Buna Hicks
8 Babes in the Wood - Dorothy Howard
9 I Dropped the Baby - Dorothy Howard
10 Solas Market - Edith Perrin
11 Wakes in the Morning - Edith Perrin
12 Where Did You Get that Hat? - Edith Perrin
13 Mail Day Blues - J. B. Sutton
14 Nobody Knows - Sue Thomas
15 Gilgarrah Mountain (Whiskey in the Jar) - Lena Bourne Fish
16 Somebody's Waiting for Me - Charles Tink Tillett
17 Bony - Charles Tink Tillett
18 Come Love Come - Eleazar Stewart
19 Hey, Get Along Josie - Tom Smith
20 Days of 49 - Yankee John Galusha
21 Springfield Mountain - Yankee John Galusha
22 Conversation with Eleazar Tillett
23 Jolly Thrasher - Eleazar Tillett
24 Chimbly Sweeper - Rebecca King Jones
25 Conversation with Rebecca King Jones
26 Barbara Allen - Rebecca King Jones
27 Mohawk Chant, War Cry - Louis Solomon
28 Old Woman in the Garden - Frank Proffitt
29 James Campbell - Frank Proffitt
30 Conversation with Frank Proffitt
31 Lowland Low - Frank Proffitt
32 Skin and Bones - anonymous
33 Two Little Blackbirds - Elda Blackwood
34 Uncle Ned - Elda Blackwood
35 Tommy - Martha Midgett
36 Hold My Hand Lord Jesus - Sue Thomas
37 Jolly Roving Tar - Lena Bourne Fish
38 Castle by the Sea - Lena Bourne Fish
39 Deep Elm Blues - Richard Hamilton
40 Farewell to Old Bedford - Lee Monroe Presnell
41 Sometimes in This Country - Lee Monroe Presnell
42 Top of Mt. Zion - Buna Hicks
43 A Poor Wayfaring Pilgrim - Linzy Hicks
44 Been to the East - Steve Meekins
45 Lass of Glenshee - Yankee John Galusha
46 Irish 69th - Yankee John Galusha
47 The umberland & the Merrimac - Yankee John Galusha
48 Lonesome Valley - Curt Mann
49 Grandma's Advice - Mrs. Wolf
50 Kiss Me Oh I Like It - Edith Perrin
51 When I Die - Edith Perrin
52 Young Beham - Roby Monroe Hicks
53 Poor Ellen Smith - Homer Cornett
54 Johnson Boys - Frank Proffitt
55 Little Maggie - Frank Proffitt
56 Palms of Victory - Linzy Hicks
57 Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still - Eleazar Tillett & Martha Ethe
58 Let's Make a Date - Eleazar Tillett & Martha Etheridge

notes

Anne and Frank Warner's lifetime of collecting folk songs has been called by Alan Lomax "a continuous act of unpaid, tender devotion and a lifelong love affair with the people who remembered the ballads." It is through this "love affair" that the Warners were able to collect some of the most beautiful and important traditional American music ever recorded.

Over the course of forty years, through lectures and performances, in books, and on seven highly influential albums of his own, Frank Warner taught America the songs that he learned from the great, mostly unknown, rural singers he and his wife had recorded in field trips up and down the Eastern Seaboard. In 1984, Anne Warner documented the collection in the critically acclaimed book "Traditional American Folksongs," which belongs on every bookshelf.

Songs from the Warner Collection, including "He's Got The Whole World in His Hand," "Days of Forty Nine," "Gilgarrah Mountain (Whiskey in the Jar)" and "Tom Dooley," are now widely known and sung throughout the world. These songs have been performed and recorded by Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia & David Grisman, Metallica, Lonnie Donegan, The Clancy Brothers, Mahalia Jackson, The Pogues, Judy Collins and many others. In 1958, The Kingston Trio learned "Tom Dooley" from the Warners via the Alan Lomax book, "Folk Song USA." Their recording of the song became a Number One hit which sold over three million copies and ignited the spark of what would become known as the "folk revival."

The original recordings in the Warner Collection had only been heard by the Warner family and a small group of friends and music scholars until Appleseed released two volumes from the collection, in part at the urging of traditional music singer Tim Eriksen and his band, Cordelia's Dad.

Volume 1, "Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still," presents an overview of the Warner Collection, while Volume 2, "Nothing Seems Better to Me" concentrates on Frank Proffitt and the music of his beloved Beech Mountain in North Carolina, where the Warners collected many of their finest songs. Interspersed between the songs, which are sometimes brief fragments, are snippets of conversation with the singers, transporting the listeners back to another time and place. Both CDs' booklets are filled with historic photographs, extensive essays and detailed song notes. These are essential collections for lovers of traditional American music and culture.

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  • Buy it, great music here.
    author: Hunter Robertson

    Great and beautiful music here. I'm so glad the Warner's preserved this - their like won't be seen again!

  • Awesome!!
    author: Angie

    Great CD, and great service!

  • preserving old songs
    author: Francesca

    So many old songs--a real treasury. The old recordings take you right to the porch or kitchen where the singers sing, and the snatches of conversation that are also included are also marvelous. This is a great collection for anyone who wants to learn to sing old songs and ballads.

  • Wonderful collection of music/songs that should be saved
    author: Pam

    In the mountains of NC, we work hard to preserve our musical heritage. This collection achieves that for this CD. It's a must have for anyone interested in musical history.

  • a great CD for the true believers
    author: Eclipse Girl

    Its good, if you dont mind the rural quality. Some recordingd are better than others. Large collection of music. A great source for old (obscure) timey music.

  • Loved the works, it brought back alot of old memories!
    author: Wayne

    Loved the works, it brought back alot of old memories!

  • excellent
    author: edward mann

    This CD included several of my older family members that I have never the pleasure to meet. I am really thrilled to have this in my collection.

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