I purchased two new old time CDs today, sold at my friend Laurie
Gundersen’s store, APPALACHIAN PIECEWORK, in Staunton, VA:
These are the two CDs:
“No Corn On Tygart”
And
“Puncheon Floor” by Scott Prouty
The CD Baby boilerplate says “Puncheon Floor showcases the
older West Virginia and Kentucky mountain styles of fiddle playing, which
includes dance music as well as beautiful solo fiddle tunes.”
And “No Cord on Tygart” is, according to the CD Baby
website, “A Collection of traditional old-time fiddle tunes and songs from West
Virginia, East Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Indiana.”
I’ve seen Scott Prouty in action on a fiddle and banjo, and
the results are always impressive, rousing, and authentic. The “Puncheon Floor” liner notes credit
Scott’s Dad, Clark Prouty, for inspiring in Scott a love of this music. I met Clark at Clifftop years ago, sat in his
camping area, admired his creative touch in both his music and his banjo
building work – he did some of the most inspired inlay I’ve ever seen. Clark was a gentle, soft spoken man full of
art. He passed on in 2008. I’m glad to have met him, and I’m equally
glad to have had the chance from time to time, ad festivals and house concerts,
to listen to Scott plow through old time tunes.
So these CDs are a special treat for me.
John Gallagher’s fiddling and
banjoing is new to me. I know him by
reputation as an accomplished flute maker http://gallagherflutes.com/ He is a sturdy fiddler and brings great
voice to tunes such as “A Sailor Bring Tired.”
Chris Coole puts his guitar work behind a bunch of the tunes on “No Corn On Tygart,”
which comes with a nicely done set of liner notes on the lineage of the tunes
played.
I think they Banjo Hangout citizenry with an interest in
good old time West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and North Carolina
repertoire on fiddle and banjo would welcome these two discs. Great music by dedicated practitioners.
Excuse me, I’ve got to go listen to them again.
Play hard,
Lew
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