Archive - Preservation - Audio

Film -- Video -- Audio

Nimrod Workman – Passing Thru the Garden (June Appal 001)

I Am a Traveling Creature / Good Morning & Old Owl [LISTEN] / Cabin in Gloryland / Two Little Angels / Lord Daniel / Little Scholar / Bold Sea Captain / Forty-Two Years [LISTEN] / Ginseng / Oh Death / Quil O’Quay / Burglar Man / Lady Gay / Dixon Said to Jackson / Passin’ Thru the Garden

Buell Kazee – Buell Kazee (June Appal 009)

Roll On, John / Jay Gould’s Daughter / The Lady Gay / Steel a-Going Down / The Roving Cowboy / Banjo Medley [LISTEN] / Look Up, Look Down That Lonesome Road [LISTEN] / Sporting Bachelors / The Orphan Girl / Black Jack Davy / The Blind Man / O, Thou in Whose Presence / Amazing Grace

Ray Hicks - Jack Alive! (June Appal 052)

North Carolina's master storyteller, passed away in 2003. As part of the production for June Appal's 1989 release JACK ALIVE!, Appalshop recorded eight hours of Ray's account of his life and times, material more particular and personal than the Jack Tales for which he is famous. This audio material is on four VHS cassettes recorded in the now obsolete F-1 digital format. In addition, Appalshop has approximately 90 minutes of reel-to-reel audiotape of two of Ray's performances recorded at its annual Seedtime on the Cumberland festival.

Ralph Blizard & The New Southern Ramblers – Blizard Train (JA0056)

Tennessee native and 2002 National Heritage Award winner Ralph Blizard was internationally known for his distinctive Southern Appalachian long-bow fiddling. Released in 1989 by June Appal Recordings, Blizard Train is considered one of his finest releases. Ralph’s sliding improvisational fiddle style is backed by the exciting rhythmic drive the New Southern Ramblers. After some 70 years playing music, Ralph passed away in late 2004. We honor Ralph’s legacy through the preservation of the original ¼ inch audio master tapes of Blizard Train, on sale now at the Appalshop Web Store.

Florida Blues / House of David Blues / Kansas City Railroad Blues / No Hard Times / Dickson County Blues / Winebarger's Mill (Buckwheat song) / Hell Among the Yearlings / Chittlin' Cookin' Time In Cheatham County / Blue Ridge Mountain Home / Sugar Tree Stomp / When Zephyrs of Heaven Shall Fan Me To Sleep / If I Lose / Let Me Lose / Blizard Train / Smith's Waltz / Canjun Stomp(Gypsy Stomp) / Timber Tree Rag

I.D. Stamper – Red Wing (June Appal 010)

Darlin’ Corey / Ground Hog / Married Life Blues / Rattlesnake Bill / Lost John [LISTEN] / Marching Thru Georgia / Jack & Joe / Going Round This World / Red Wing / Down South Blues / Barbry Ellen / John Henry / 900 Miles / Sourwood Mountain / Pretty Polly / I Can’t Change It / Meet Me Tonight

Addie Graham – Been a Long Time Traveling (June Appal 020)

Pretty Polly / Three Little Babes / Lonesome Scenes of Winter / The Dummy / O & K Train Song / Omie Wise / Ida Red / Went Up on the Old Hillside [LISTEN] / The Indian Tribes of Tennessee / Wouldn’t Mind Working from Sun to Sun / Long and a Country Jake / Darling Don’t You Know That’s Wrong / We’re Stole and Sold From Africa [LISTEN] / Been a Long Time Traveling / Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah / Hungry and Faint and Poor / Sisters Thou Art Mild and Lovely / Jesus Reigns / I am a Little Scholar / My Head and Stay is Called Away / When Moses and the Israelites / The Lord Will Provide / Dear Friends Farewell

Luke Smathers String Band – Mountain Swing (June Appal 024)

Cacklin’ Hen [LISTEN] / Sweet Georgia Brown / Brown Skinned Gal / Down the Old Plank Road / Maidens Prayer / Whispering / Darkness on the Delta / Texas Plains / Miller Blues / Darktown Strutters Ball / Mockingbird / Echoes of My Old Plantation Home / Leather Britches / Methodist Pie