Folk visions & voices : traditional music and song in North Georgia / field collecting, text, drawings, and paintings by Art Rosenbaum ; photographs by Margo N. Rosenbaum ; musical transcriptions by Béla Folton, Jr. ; foreword by Pete Seeger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosenbaum, Art.

Rosenbaum, Margo Newmark.

Foltin, Béla.

Seeger, Pete, 1919-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk music--Georgia.

Folk music.

Folk songs, English--Georgia.

Folk songs, English.

Fiddle tunes.

Georgia--Songs and music.

Georgia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1983]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection of eighty-two songs and instrumentals, enhanced by photographs, illustrations, biographical sketches of performers, and examples of their narratives, sermons, tales, and reminiscences.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Transcriber's Comments

Goin' to Georgia

The Little Ship

My Home's in Charlotte, North Carolina

Cindy in the Summertime

Don't Go Ridin' Down That Old Texas Trail

What You Gonna Name That Pretty Baby?

Ellen Smith

Dance All Night with a Bottle in Your Hand

Snowbird

My Number Will Be Changed

Walk with Me

Dead and Gone

Soon, One Mornin'

Walk Together, Little Children

Brother, You Oughtta Been There

Alone and Motherless

Little Sally Walker

We're Marching Round the Level

Free, Go Lily

Farewell, Sweet Jane

The Famous Wedding

Betsy

Lord Thomas

King William, Duke Shambo

Sweet Jane

I Am a Poor Wayfaring Pilgrim

Once I Had an Old Grey Mare

Barbara Allen

I Used to Do Some Frolickin'

Seventy-four

Garfield

Sally Ann

How Long the Train Been Gone?

Up the Oak, Down the Pine

Down Yonder

Hand Me Down My Walking Cane

Goodbye, Little Bonnie, Blue Eyes

Three Nights' Experience

The Lonesome Hungry Hash House

Stagolee Was a Bully

Arkansas Traveler

I Wish I'd Bought a Half a Pint and Stayed in the Wagon Yard

Prettiest Little Girl in the County

Let's March Around the Wall

My Captain Paid Me Forty-one Dollars and a Quarter

Hamma-Tamma Damma-Ramma

Old John Henry Died on the Mountain

Track Lining

Shout, Lulu

Greenback

The Lily of the West

As I Walked Out One Morning in Spring

Shady Grove

The Rovin' Gambler

I Don't Know How We Made It Over

No Room at the Hotel

Welcome Home

I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground

I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground.

Shoot the Turkey Buzzard

Mulberry Gap

Poor Ex-Soldier

Five Hundred Miles

Slippin' and A-Slidin' with My New Shoes On

Goin' Down This Road Feelin' Bad

The Dying Girl

Leavin' Here, Don't Know Where I'm Goin'

John Henry

Low-Down Blues

Long-Legged Lula's Back in Town

Railroad Bill I

Jesse James

I'm Goin' Back to Good Ol' Birmingham

Railroad Bill II

Market Street Blues

He Could Fiddle His Way Out of Jail

Dawsonville Jail

Sally Goodin

Do 'Round My Lindy

Gold Strike

Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane

I Got a Woman on Sourwood Mountain

Man of Visions

Some Have Fathers Over Yonder

Five to My Five

Little Mary Phagan

Just a Little Tack in the Shingle of Your Roof

Bibliography

A North Georgia Discography

Index of Titles and First Lines of Songs.

Notes:

Principally melodies with chord symbols, in part with banjo or guitar tablature; includes fiddle tunes.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8203-4649-7

OCLC:

872122168