Mrs. Etta Baker Family & Friends - Instrumental Music Of The Southern Appalachians

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 34:22
Size: 78.7 MB
Styles: Country blues, Piedmont blues
Released: 1956/2007
Art: Front

1. Cripple Creek (1:47)
2. Pateroller Song (1:40)
3. One Dime Blues (2:58)
4. Sourwood Mountain (1:48)
5. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad (1:22)
6. Amazing Grace (1:42)
7. The Girl I Left Behind Me (1:23)
8. Marching Jaybird (1:19)
9. John Brown's Dream (1:30)
10. Sally Goodin (1:00)
11. Railroad Bill (2:37)
12. Soldier's Joy (1:57)
13. Molly Brooks (1:19)
14. Pretty Polly (1:27)
15. Johnson Boys (1:28)
16. John Henry (2:38)
17. Drunken Hiccups (1:09)
18. Shady Grove (1:06)
19. Bully Of The Town (2:56)
20. Skip To My Lou (1:06)

Etta Baker started playing guitar when she was three, and played for an hour a day until she died. So she was really good. Like Libba Cotten, Etta’s style was a syncopated fingerpicking style rooted in the 19th Century. Called the “Piedmont” style, it owes as much to ragtime, Appalachian, and songster traditions as it does to the blues (which itself grew out of these traditions). Her music had a gentle, rollicking, and joyful flavor not unlike that of Mississippi John Hurt. Besides being a fantastic guitar and banjo player who influenced John Fahey, Taj Mahal, Doc Watson, Bob Dylan, and countless others, she was a warm and gracious person.

Instrumental Music Of The Southern Appalachians

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