Portraits: Hobart Smith: Blue Ridge Legacy

Hobart Smith

Release Date: 01 Jan 2001
Label: ROUNDER
Genre: POP & ROCK

CAT # 11661-1799-2

1. The Devil's Dream 2:29

2. Drunken Hiccups 2:50

3. The Cuckoo Bird 2:40

4. Banging Breakdown 1:00

5. Arkansas Traveller 1:43

6. Railroad Bill 2:58

7. Clause Allen 3:36

8. Hangman, Swing Your Rope 3:26

9. Wayfaring Stranger 2:03

10. Sourwood Mountain (Piano) 1:22

11. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad 1:19

12. Pateroller 1:44

13. Chinquipin Pie 1:50

14. Last Chance 2:20

15. Jim Along 2:28

16. Two brothers (The Little Schoolboy) 3:44

17. Ellen Smith 2:27

18. Graveyard Blues 3:24

19. K.C. Blues 3:05

20. Unidentified electric guitar tune 2:20

21. Cindy (string band) 1:23

22. At an Old-Time Dance (interview) 4:45

23. Cindy (piano) 2:02

24. The Thrill of Dance Music (interview)

25. What Did the Buzzard Say to the Crow? 1:40

26. Buck Dance 1:30

27. Old Joe Clark 1:55

28. Dixie 2:25

29. Sourwood Mountain (banjo) 1:06

30. Hawkins County Jail 2:41

31. Rocky Mountain 1:43

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This collection of ballads, reels, and blues is the legacy of a Renaissance mountain man: Hobart Smith of Virginia. This Appalachian virtuoso was many things: a forceful singer, a brilliant guitarist, a masterful fiddler, a spellbinding banjoist, an innovative pianist, and a musical giant whose influence on old-timey music and the folk revival remains uncharted. Banjo tablature is provided for two of his most memorable pieces 'Last Chance' and 'The Cuckoo Bird.'

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