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Series 2: Sound Recordings (continued)
4. I'm Not a Sinner [?]
5. Man Going Around Taking [?]
6. talk with Fred and John [?]
7. Muscle Shout Blues (harp)
8. Fox Chase
9. Long Road Ain't Got No End
10. The Stars Began to Fade
Side 2
1. Stars [?]
2. I See a Bridge
3. Long Love Ain't Got No End (fiddle)
4. through 8. [unidentified]
9. Cattle Call
10. Billy in the Lowground
11. Cindy
Item-ID: AFC 2011/009: SR0812 330 / 1159 / Fred Gallagher and family / Saltville / Tape 6, June 15, 1964
1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, stereo ; 7 in.
Recorded at John Gallagher's house, in Saltville. Family names and ages are given on the tape box back: Maxine Gallagher (June 10, 1943 - 21 years), Revonda Gallagher (January 20, 1948 - 16 years), Darlene Gallagher (March 4, 1949 - 12 years), John Monroe Gallagher (July 1, 1950 - 14 years), Fred Gallagher. For the first five songs of Side 1, there is a note that "they read words from handwritten book").
Side 1
1. The White Dove
2. Wings of the Dove
3. Mother's Not Dead
4. Peace in the Valley
5. The Hem of His Garment
6. Bound for the Kingdom Far Above
7. Fly Around My Pretty Little Girls (fiddle)
Side 2
1. Settin' on Top of the World
2. Muleskinner (fiddle)
3. M[?]
4. Cripple Creek (fiddle)
5. Sourwood Mountain
6. Harmonica Waltz
Item-ID: AFC 2011/009: SR0813 331 / 1160 / Ron Holmes / Tape 7, June 17, 1964
1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 7 in.
Recorded in Saltville. Ron Holmes, 24 years old, playing harmonica.
1. Redwing
2. Wabash Cannonball
3. John Henry
4. Wildwood Flower
5. Talk about making banjos
6. Tennessee Waltz
Item-ID: AFC 2011/009: SR0693 Saltville, Misc. #3 / 1964, June 14-15, 1964
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
A number of other songs and performers are listed on the tape box back, and lined through.
Nellie Gay (into: ) / 3:36 - Bill (b) Hob (vocal and fiddle)
Sleep in Your Barn Tonight intro / 1:44 - Hobart Smith (fiddle), Bill DeBusk (banjo)
Little Log Cabin in the Lane 2:00 - Hob (fiddle and vocal), Bill (b) (mostly line #7 Nellie Gray)
Did You Ever See A Muskrat Nancy Ann 1:42 - Hobart Smith, Wiley Smith (guitar and vocal) (3:28), June 14, 1964
Snow Deer (f) 3:28 - Hobart and Wiley (guitar)
The Big M[?] (guitar) - Wiley
What a Friend We Have in Jesus - Wiley
Guitar instrumental
If This Ain't the Holy Ghost I Don't Know - Hobart (guitar and vocal) and Wiley (guitar and vocal)
The White Dove - Fred, Maxine, Rovonda, Darlene, and John Monroe / Gallagher, 330, June 15, 1964
Brownskin Blues
Guitar instrumental; incomplete
Item-ID: AFC 2011/009: SR0952 Saltville Sample / 1964 / 5, 1964
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
A compilation of field recordings; see the tape box for details.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/009: SR0846 354 / Press Smith / Bluefield, VA, August 5, 1965
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 5 in.
Press [Preston] Smith (Hobart Smith's brother), at the home of D[?] S[?], Bluefield, Virginia. Topics include: Saltville, preaching, family, etc.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/009: SR0860 355 / 1180 / John Gallagher / Saltville, August 6, 1965
1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, two track, mono ; 5 in.
Contents: guitar instrumentals, place names, train. All songs on Side 2 are fragments. Recorded in Saltville, Virginia.
Side 1
1. Train at Duel's
2. Charming Betsy
With front and end talk
3. Ginny Put the Kettle On
4. Nigger Blues
Out of E from Andy Flanagan and talking [?]
5. Place names
Good story about Broady B[?]
Side 2
1. Place names on his grandfather who fought for North; on his grandfather who fought for South
2. Yankee Doodle Dandy
3. Dixie (fragment)
4. Railroad Bill
5. Coney Isle
6. Brown Skin Blues
7. Casey Jones
Item-ID: AFC 2011/009: SR0847 356 / 1185 / John Gallagher / Earl Stacey / Ben Dinsmore / Saltville, August 6, 1965
1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, two track, mono ; 5 in.
Contents: guitar and dulcimer instrumentals, Lomax visit.
1. Brown Skin Blues - John Gallagher
2. Black Mammy Blues - Earl Stacey
3. Steppin' the Frets - Earl Stacey
4. Sing Low - Ben Dinsmore, in Cedar Branch
5. [unidentified]
6. I Want to Be in That Number [Saints Go Marching In?]
7. [unidentified]
8. How Lomax got him up at 5 a.m. to record and put him on record without even giving him a copy [?] Hob's check [?]
Item-ID: AFC 2011/009: SR0848 357 / 1186 / Ben Dinsmore (dulcimer) / Saltville, August 6, 1965
1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 5 in.
Ben Dinsmore, dulcimer instrumentals
Rock of Ages
Down at Cross
When the Roll is Called Up Yonder
Talk about [?]
Minor chord (his own)
Jesus Hold My Hand
Talk on getting religion
Black Eyed Susie
[unidentified]
Alabama Gals
John Henry
Boil Them Cabbage Down
Item-ID: AFC 2011/009: SR0849 358 / 1187 / Ben Dinsmore (dulcimer) / Saltville, August 6, 1965
1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 5 in.
Ben Dinsmore, dulcimer instrumentals
Talk on dulcimer and Bible
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
What're We Gonna Do With the Baby O
Talk on s[?] he was three and story
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