George Pegram
George Pegram
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CAT # 11661-0001-2
1. Mississippi Sawyer 2:26 2. Workin' On A Building 2:32 3. Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane 3:13 4. John Henry 3:03 5. Where Could I Go But To The Lord? 2:09 6. Wildwood Flower 2:17 7. Never Grow Old 2:34 8. Reuben 2:42 9. What A Friend We Have In Jesus 2:43 10. Mountain Sally Ann 1:56 11. Old Time Religion 2:00 12. Johnson's Old Grey Mule 2:15 13. In The Sweet Bye and Bye 3:05 14. Cumberland Gap 1:56 15. Are You Washed In The Blood? 2:27 16. Bury Me 'Neath The Willow 2:03 17. Over The Waves Waltz 2:15 18. Old Country Church 2:46 19. Just Because 2:22 20. Will The Circle Be Unbroken? 3:51
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Rounder Records marked the occasion of their 25th anniversary with the re-release of this, the first Rounder album. A favorite at festivals and music conventions, George was a driving banjo picker and a natural performer, and it's easy to hear why he was Rounder's first ever recording artist. 'Rounder Records was started (in 1970) to release these recordings of a North Carolina banjoist/singer described in 1948 as 'a broadaxe-finished mountaineer under a ten-gallon hat.' Discovered by singer/folklorist Bascam Lamar Lunsford in the 1940s, Pegram cut a dashing figure at North Carolina folk music gatherings till his death in 1974. The recordings that comprise this release (six of its 20 tracks appear here for the first time) were acquired by Rounder's founders in 1969 for $125.00 and became the label's debut vinyl offering. Along with Pegram's forthright three-finger banjo style, he sang in an amiably hoarse bellow, accompanied on several tracks by legendary fiddler Fred Cockerham.' --Mark Humphrey, Record Roundup
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