Horton Barker, traditional singer.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Barker, Horton, 1889-1973.

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings.

Series:

Smithsonian global sound for libraries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballads, English--North Carolina.

Folk songs, English--North Carolina.

Folk songs, English.

Ballads, English.

North Carolina.

Old-time music.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Folk music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Smithsonian Folkways, [between 2000 and 2009]

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Contents:

Wayfaring stranger (3:55)

Wondrous love (4:26)

The gypsy's wedding day (2:56)

The miller's will (3:16)

Amazing grace (4:20)

Lord Thomas and fair Ellender (4: 29)

Bow and balance (5:26)

At the foot of Yonders Mountain (2:00)

The Turkish rebilee (4:40)

Blue- haired Jimmy (2:12)

The drunkard's courtship (1:47)

The farmer's curst wife (3:07)

There was an old lady (3 :22)

Rolly Trudum (2:40)

City four square (4:14)

Devilish Mary (2:16)

Hop, old rabbit, hop (1:23)

Sweet Mary (1:41)

Paddy Doyle (1:47).

Participant:

Horton Barker, singer.

Notes:

Originally issued as analog disc on Folkways Records: FA 2362, 1962.

Program notes by Sandy Paton and texts of the ballads (7 p.) inserted in original container.

Smithsonian Folkways: FA 2362; F-2362 on original container.

Recorded in Beech Creek, North Carolina by Sandy Paton.

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2009. (Smithsonian global sound for libraries). Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

F-2362

OCLC:

689534091

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.