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The Hammons family

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The Hammons family

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Recorded between Sept. 20, 1970 and Aug. 7, 1972 by Alan Jabbour, Carl Fleischhauer and Dwight Diller in Pocahontos County, W. Va

The Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture

Disc 1. Old sledge (1:47) -- Camp chase (4:10) -- Three forks of cheat (2:10) -- Sugar grove blues (1:51) -- Turkey in the straw (4:05) -- The route (1:58) -- Fine times at our house (2:32) -- The Yankee and Marcum (6:53) -- The sandy boys (1:13) -- Wilson's clog (1:28) -- Sugar babe : version 1 (1:33) -- Singing birds (1:42) -- Old man, can I have your daughter (:48) -- Shaking down the acorns/Hink Cogar's deer ride (6:59) -- Cranberry rock (2:13) -- The big scioty (2:04) -- Greasy coat (1:49) -- Jimmy Johnson (2:08) -- The panther in the sky (1:10) -- Muddy roads (3:14) -- Bringing back the sheep (8:40) -- Sugar babe : version 2 (5:11)Disc 2. Young Henerly (5:41) -- Parsons rock (5:31) -- In Scotland town (5:30) -- Little Omie (4:56) -- We're marching around the levees (3:07) -- Riddles (3:56) -- Mercian tittery-ary-a (3:03) -- Jay Legg (5:00) -- The lonesome pines (3:56) -- The haunted wagon (4:08) -- Hard times in the Charleston jail (3:16) -- Ireland's green shore (3:05) -- When this world comes to an end (5:41) -- Johnny Booger (1:41) -- Walking in the parlor (2:43) -- Rocky mountain goat (1:49) -- Who's been here since I've been gone (2:20) -- Lost indian (1:44)

Traditions of a West Virginia family and their friends