Record

Performance TitleFestival of American Folk and Country Music
Performance Date11 March 1966
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time20:00
Main PerformersCousin Emmy - vocal,
Roscoe Holcomb - banjo, guitar, mouth harp
Orchestra or BandThe Stanley Brothers (Carter Stanley, Ralph Stanley)

The Clinch Mountain Boys (James Stripling, James Miller, George Shuffler)

New Lost City Ramblers (John Cohen - banjo, guitar, Tracy Schwarz - guitar, vocal, banjo, Mike Seeger - guitar, mandolin, autoharp, banjo, fiddle)

Cyp Landreneau's Cajun Band (Cyprien Landreneau - accordion, Adam Landreneau - fiddle, Revon J Reed - triangle)
Set ListSet List chosen from:
'Orange Blossom Special' (The Stanley Brothers and The Clinch Mountain Boys),
'Who Will Call You Sweetheart?' (The Stanley Brothers and The Clinch Mountain Boys),
'A Voice from On High' (The Stanley Brothers and The Clinch Mountain Boys),
'Big Tilda' (The Stanley Brothers and The Clinch Mountain Boys),
'Angel Band' (The Stanley Brothers and The Clinch Mountain Boys),
'Clinch Mountain Blues' (The Stanley Brothers and The Clinch Mountain Boys),
'Barbara Allen' (Cousin Emmy),
'Ground Hog' (Cousin Emmy),
'a Message To Heaven' (Cousin Emmy),
'Pretty Little Miss in The Garden' (Cousin Emmy),
'I Love My Rooster' (Cousin Emmy),
'Cat's Got The Measles and The Dog's Got The Whooping Cough' (Cousin Emmy),
'I'll Be True To My True Love' (Cousin Emmy),
'I'm a Free Little Bird as I Can Be' (Cousin Emmy),
'I Once Was a Sinner' (Cousin Emmy),
'Katy Hill' (New Lost City Ramblers),
'Battleship' (New Lost City Ramblers),
'Black Jack David' (New Lost City Ramblers),
'Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender' (New Lost City Ramblers),
'The Coo Coo Bird' (New Lost City Ramblers),
'She Tickles Me' (New Lost City Ramblers),
'Stone's Rag' (New Lost City Ramblers),
'Three Men Went a-Hunting' (New Lost City Ramblers),
'Sal Got a Meatskin' (New Lost City Ramblers),
'There Ain't No Bugs On Me' (New Lost City Ramblers),
'Black Mountain Blues' (New Lost City Ramblers),
'Nick Nack Song' (New Lost City Ramblers),
'Worried Man Blues' (New Lost City Ramblers),
'Talking Hard Luck' (New Lost City Ramblers),
'Swanno Mountain' (Roscoe Holcomb),
'Combs Hotel Burned Down' (Roscoe Holcomb),
'Wandering Boy' (Roscoe Holcomb),
'Hook and Line' (Roscoe Holcomb),
'Barbara Allen Blues' (Roscoe Holcomb),
'Married Life Blues' (Roscoe Holcomb),
'Fair Miss in The Garden' (Roscoe Holcomb ),
'Omie Wise' (Roscoe Holcomb),
'Willow Tree' (Roscoe Holcomb),
'Boat's Up The River' (Roscoe Holcomb),
'In The Pines' (Roscoe Holcomb),
'Fox Chase' (Roscoe Holcomb),
'Coney Isle' (Roscoe Holcomb),
'Charles Guitau' (Roscoe Holcomb),
'Free Little Bird' (Roscoe Holcomb),
'Baby Let Your Hair Roll Down' (Roscoe Holcomb),
'Little Bessie' (Roscoe Holcomb)
Performance Notes"MUSEUM-PIECE U.S. COUNTRY MUSIC.
...Like the poor conditions from which it came it is lean, self-possessed and uncompromising because it has nothing to compromise with.
Despite some concessions, as implied in the description of one performer as "the first hillbilly to own a Cadillac," the music of singers like the Stanley Brothers and Cousin Emmy has maintained its integrity.
But incisive though it is this music is essentially a museum-piece which can endure even in its native Appalachia only so long as President Johnson's war on poverty is unsuccessful there."
(The Daily Telegraph, 12 March 1966)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1966/30)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1966/30Festival of American Country Music - American Folk and Country Music11 March 1966
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ydakalav_MoirFestival of American Folk and Country Music1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/15884Emmy; Cousin (1903-1980); American banjo player, country singer
DS/UK/15885Holcomb; Roscoe (1912-1981); American singer, banjo player, guitarist
DS/UK/15888The Stanley Brothers (1946-1966)
DS/UK/15889The Clinch Mountain Boys (1946-1966)
DS/UK/15891Cyp Landreneau Cajun Band (c.1957)
DS/UK/15890New Lost City Ramblers (1958-)
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