This lp, subtitled "A study of a West Virginia's family tradition", is an attempt to describe with sounds, words and photographs, the life and folklore of a rural appalachian family, whose ancestors came from Britain and were early pioneers and settlers in Kentucky and the Allegheny mountains. Music was an important part of the family life and the album includes many banjo and fiddle tunes along with ballads and stories. The recordings and research were done by Alan Jabbour, Carl Fleischhauer and Dwight Diller in the beggining of the 1970's for the Library of Congress in Washington.
-I uploaded the cd version of the lp (thanks to Tobias Enevoldsen for providing me this) which has combined the original tracks with another lp from The Hammons Family called "Shaking down the Acorns", released on Rounder.
-This recordings came with a huge booklet of more than 30 pages, that tells the history and background of The Hammons family along with notes on the recordings and photographs.
Part 1: The Hammons Family
- Old Sledge
- Camp Chase
- Three Forks of Cheat
- The Yankee and Marcum
- Sugar Grove Blues
- Turkey in the Straw
- The Route
- Fine Times at Our House
- Jimmy Johnson
- Parsons Rock
- In Scotland Town
- Little Omie
- Young Henerly
- Muddy Roads
- Bringing Back the Sheep
- The Sandy Boys
- Wilson's Clog
- Sugar Babe (version 1)
- We're Marching Around the Levees
- Riddles
- Mercian Tittery-ary-a
- Jay Legg
- When This World Comes to an End
Part 2: Shaking down the Acorns
- Shaking Down the Acorns / Hink Cogar's Deer Ride
- Cranberry Rock
- The Panther in the Sky
- Sugar Babe (version 2)
- The Lonesome Pines
- Johnny Booger
- Walking in the Parlor
- Singing Birds
- Old Man, Can I Have Your Daughter
- The Haunted Wagon
- Rocky Mountain Goat
- Who's Been Here Since I've Been Gone
- Lost Indian
- Hard Times in the Charleston Jail
- Ireland's Green Shore
- The Big Scioty
- Greasy Coat
