Blue Ridge Old Time Music Week, Google Group!

I’ve set up a google group for Blue Ridge Old Time Music Week 2007 attendees to stay in touch with one another! The group will allow us to make announcements, share photographs and sound files from the week, and have secure way to communicate without having to make our information public. I have posted a sound file, a welcome to new members, and have some other material that will be loaded soon! I’m so excited! If you were at Blue Ridge Old Time Music Week this past year and want to join, check out the Google Group!                             (photograph taken by Andy Mrozkowski, 2005)

 

Another mountain music post…

Gary Schueffler asked me to record me singing “The Cruel Mother,” a really sad ballad that dates back to the 1600s, and is about a mother that gives birth two twin boys and then stabs them and forsakes them in the woods. It’s really sad. Bobby McMillon taught it to me, so here it is.

The Cruel Mother.mp4

 

Go Away With Me

I learned this from Alice Gerrard last week in the Country Music Singing Class at Blue Ridge Old Time Music Week! My singing’s a little rough, but my buddy, Brad Pope, played the guitar for me and we recorded it so he could learn it! Yeay!

Go_Away_With_Me.mp3