In The Pines: Tar Heel Folks Songs & Fiddle / Var In The Pines: Tar Heel Folks Songs & Fiddle / Var CD

Here are 24 tracks of rare music by the fiddlers, string bands and family singers of the "Tar Heel State," recorded 1926-1936 during a pivotal decade of unparalleled artistic achievement. You'll hear classic fiddle and banjo tunes, folk songs and murder ballads, gospel hymns and mountain blues, all performed by the state's top musical talent of the era. The music is digitally remastered, with most tracks appearing on CD for the first time. Includes a 24-page, full-color booklet containing rare vintage photographs, many unpublished until now, and extensive historical notes on the era, the songs, and the musicians.

1. In the Pines - Dock Walsh 2. Mountain Sweetheart - Red Fox Chasers 3. Mistreated Blues - Carolina Buddies 4. Johnson City Hop - Carolina Ramblers String Band 5. Are You Sure? - Dixon Brothers ; Mutt Evans 6. The Rose with a Broken Stem - North Carolina Cooper Boys 7. Jack of Diamonds - Ben Jarrell 8. Otto Wood - Cranford ; Thompson 9. Richmond Square - the Highlanders 10. Will the Weaver - Charlie Parker ; Mack Woolbright 11. Lindy - Proximity String Quartet 12. Working on the Railroad - Blankenship Family 13. Carolina's Best - the Grady Family 14. Banjo Sam - Wilmer Watts ; the Lonely Eagles 15. New River Train - Cauley Family 16. Little Bunch of Roses - Clarence Greene 17. That Lonesome Valley - Carolina Ramblers String Band 18. Honeysuckle Rag - Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers 19. A Pretty Gal's Love - Whitter-Hendley-Small 20. Tom Dooley - Grayson ; Whitter 21. The Longest Train - Mainer's Mountaineers 22. Sweet Freedom - E.R. Nance Family with Clarence Dooley 23. Sunny Home in Dixie - Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers 24. My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains - Carolina Tar Heels