Essence of Old Kentucky
Roger Cooper
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CAT # 11661-0533-2
1. Dance All Night 2:14 2. Stonewall Jackson 2:00 3. Old Kentucky Blackberry Blossom 2:13 4. Wild Goose Chase 2:27 5. Headwaters of Tygart 1:45 6. Jim Woodward Tune 1:48 7. Queen of the West 1:33 8. Father Wheeler's Waltz 1:45 9. Pond Creek Polka 2:16 10. Gippy, Get Your Hair Cut 2:00 11. Martha Campbell 2:14 12. Hard Up Big Kanawha 1:33 13. Nancy Rowland 2:10 14. Lazy Bow Drag 2:29 15. Shortening Bread 3:10 16. Big Indian Hornpipe 2:21 17. Dittany Tea 1:59 18. Pretty Little Indian 1:41 19. Golden Star Hornpipe 2:11 20. Flannery's Dream 3:05 21. Rough and Ready 2:27 22. We'll All Go to Heaven When the Devil Goes Blind 1:44 23. Birdie 2:26 24. Paddy Bids Farewell to America 2:06 25. Midnight Serenade 2:59 26. Trot Along, My Honey 1:41 27. Sally Growler 1:29 28. Putney's Run 1:41 29. Morgan on the Railroad 1:36 30. Soapsuds over the Fence 1:54 31. Briarpicker Brown 1:45 32. Six White Horses 1:40 33. Yellow Barber 2:17 34. Katy Hill 2:35
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At one time one of the richest veins of fiddle music to be encountered anywhere in the United States was found in rural Lewis County, Kentucky, a pleasant region of wooded hills that borders the Ohio River at the top of the state. There African-American blues inflections introduced syncopation into uplifting square dance rhythms; melancholy shadings of a mountain cast crept into old British melodic stock. Roger Cooper is one of our last homegrown players who has mastered this demanding music, in which the pioneer stirrings of America's distinctive musical forms can be first heard. Extensive notes by producer Mark Wilson are included in a PDF file on the disc.
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