FOLK LEGACY

These two recordings were made from field tapes recorded over a period of several years during which we enjoyed repeated visits to friends on Beech Mountain in northwestern North Carolina. When...

With the help of Cathy Barton, Dave Para and Bob Coltman, Ed gives US a richly varied program of traditional and contemporary songs. Cold Winter is Coming, Sweet Freedom, Old Wing, Dry Cardrona,...

Ed has appeared on more Folk-Legacy recordings than any other individual artist, backing first one singer and then another with his excellent harmonies and his fine guitar. This, however, was his...

Paddy was from Donegal, and has long been considered one of the greatest traditional singers in Ireland, with songs in both English and Irish. Examples of both are included on this field recording,...

The most beautiful recording of traditional hammered dulcimer music you are ever likely to hear, by a retired machinist from Tonawanda, New York, who learned his wonderful music from his grandfather...

It's hard to know where to include Hedy's recording; she is the daughter of poet Don West of Pipestem, West Virginia, formerly a radical labor organizer in the south. Her family came from the...

Singer and songwriter Lorre Wyatt has been a popular figure on the folk circuit since the early 1970's. Lorre is best known for such songs as the classic "Somos El Barco / We are the Boat," which has...

Beaucatcher Farewell was Bob's second Folk-Legacy recording. The title number is a beautiful tribute to an endangered mountain, played on the hammered dulcimer. Bob is backed by a bunch of the...

Mirrors and Changes was Bob's first Folk-Legacy recording. Includes the title song, plus Faces; Time, Friend, Time; the Morning After Love; This Old Earth; I Want My Son the Be a Country Boy; and...