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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Old Belle Reed & Family


released on Rounder Records (077) in 1977 

Photography by Carl Fleischhauer. Notes by David Whisnant. Design by Pat Alger.

"At the Brandywine Mountain Music Convention in the Summer of 1976, Ola Belle sat under a tree and talked for an hour with s fourteen-year-old boy raised to the sounds of rock, who was attending his first traditional festival. His jaw dropped when she told him she had been playing forty years, as if that were an incomprehensible span of time." - David Whisnant














Sunday, October 2, 2011

Red Allen & The Kentuckians

Live & Let Live, released by Folkways (FTS 31065) in 1979

Album Notes by Tom Teepen

"Red Allen started trying to get out of his native Pigeon Roost Hollow in the hills of East Kentucky around Hazard when he was 14. 'We was raised so hard back in that country that I knew I was going to leave as soon as I could,' he told an interviewer in recent years." -Tom Teepen