"Going Down to Raleigh" (NC old-time music) now available

[sarah bryan]

Now available at www.ncfolk.org:

Going Down to Raleigh: Stringband Music in the North Carolina Piedmont
1976-1998 is a two-disc anthology that presents field recordings of
stringband music from the central Piedmont of North Carolina. The
musicians featured in the project are fiddlers, banjo players,
guitarists, singers, and a hammered dulcimer player who first learned
their music from family and friends in the early decades of the
twentieth century. Going down to Raleigh includes performances by
Virgil Craven, Lauchlin Shaw, A.C. Overton, Joe and Odell Thompson,
Leonard Eubanks, Marvin Gaster, Jack Jones, Smith McInnis, Fred Olson
and Wade Yates, among others. Wayne Martin, who is Folklife Director
of the North Carolina Arts Council and an old-time fiddler, made many
of the field recordings and produced the anthology, which includes a
forty-page booklet with notes and photographs of the musicians.

[bassrun]

What a fine production this is. Lovingly rendered, and terrific
performances.

--John