Various Artists - Come, Let Us Sing [Cassette]

Format: Cassette
Catalogue No.: DEATH059
Barcode: 5050580786462
Release Date: 26 Aug 2022
Genre: Folk/Field Recordings

01: Pretty Saro - Cleophas Franklin
02: Jack the Sailor Boy - Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill
03: In Seaport Town (The Bramble Briar) - Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill
04: Sweet Willie - Mrs. Lloyd Bare Hagie
05: Old Gray Beard Need Shaving - Mrs. Sabra Bare Hampton
06: Four Nights Drunk - Jackie Browning Hedstrom
07: George Collins - Rick Ward
08: Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me? - Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill
09: Old Lady and the Devil - Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill
10: Hicks' Farewell - Rick Ward
11: I Wish My Woman Was Dead - Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill
12: Lord Thomas - Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill
13: Come, Let Us Sing - Mrs. Sabra Bare Hampton & Oscar Hampton

What shall we sing? Folklorist Derek Piotr presents the third and final installation in the Bare family trilogy, this time highlighting lesser-known and garbled versions of local folk tunes, and again braiding the past with the present by incorporating his own contemporary fieldwork of the Bare's living descendants.

Track 1 recorded by Herbert Halpert in Maryville, TN, April 23, 1939.

Tracks 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11, and 12 recorded by Herbert Halpert in Elk Park, NC, April 12, 1939.

Tracks 5 and 13 recorded by Herbert Halpert near Morganton, NC, April 19, 1939.

Track 6 recorded by Derek Piotr in Morganton, NC, April 11, 2022.

Tracks 7 and 10 recorded by Derek Piotr in Vilas, NC, April 18, 2022.

Cover image of Mrs. Sabra Bare Hampton courtesy of Della Ruth Harshbarger.