Various Artists - Oh My Little Darling: Folk Song Types

Title: Oh My Little Darling: Folk Song Types Artist: Various Artists Release Date: 12/24/2002 Re-Released On: 12/3/2002 Label: New World Records Album Type(s): Various artists collection UPC: 093228024521 Genre: Folk Styles: Old-Timey, Traditional Country, Traditional Folk, Folksongs, Field Recordings, Appalachian, North American Traditions Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 2 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Chick-A-Li-Lee-Lo :: Almeda Riddle
2. King William Was King George's Son :: Crockett Ward, Mr & Mrs. Crockett Ward
3. Sweet William :: Fields Ward
4. The Lexington Murder :: Wesley Hargis
5. Lily Schull :: Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill, Mrs. Lloyd Bare Hagie
6. The Farmer Is the Man That Feeds Them All :: Fiddlin' John Carson
7. Come All You Coal Miners :: Sarah Ogan
8. Cotton Mill Blues :: Daddy John Love
9. Whoopee-Ti-Yi-Yo :: Roy Smeck, John I White
10. Mon Chérie Bébé Créole :: S.D. Courville, Dennis McGee
11. Oh My Little Darling :: Thaddeus C. Willingham, Jr.
12. Been on the Job Too Long :: Lonely Eagles, Wilmer Watts
13. Dr. Ginger Blue :: Arthur Tanner & His Blue Ridge Cornshuckers
14. Crawling and Creeping :: Asa Martin, James Roberts, James Roberts
15. Haunted Road Blues :: Tom Clarence Ashely
16. The Village School :: Nelstone's Hawaiians
17. The Poor Drunkard's Dream :: Wade Mainer, Wade Mainer & the Sons of the Mountaineers, Sons of the Mountaineers
18. If the Light Has Gone Out in Your Soul :: Ernest Phipps
19. I'm a Long Time Traveling Away From Home :: J.T. Allison's

Year Type Label Catalog # 2002 CD New World Records 80245

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Originally released on LP in 1977, as part of The Recorded Anthology of American Music, Oh My Little Darling combines commercial 78s and field recordings from the rural southeast in what amounts to a sampler of American folk song types. Opening with a series of unaccompanied ballads, then moving through single instrument songs, small string bands, cowboy ballads, protest songs and ending with some early gospel and Sacred Harp singing, it makes for a pretty nifty survey of vernacular music in the south. Among the highlights are Fiddlin' John Carson's commercial recording of "The Farmer Is the Man That Feeds Them All" and Daddy John Love's acerbic "Cotton Mill Blues," which contains the bleak couplet "some folks says Saturday is payday/but I says Saturday is another day wasted away." ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

Name Credits Alan Lomax Engineer Almeda Riddle Vocals Arthur Tanner Vocals Asa Martin Guitar, Vocals Crockett Ward Vocals Daddy John Love Guitar, Vocals Dennis McGee Vocals, Fiddle Dirk Sobotka Digital Mastering Ernest Phipps Fiddle Fiddlin' John Carson Vocals, Fiddle Fields Ward Vocals Herbert Halpert Engineer James Roberts Guitar James Touchstone Vocals, Guitar Jerry Bruck Re-Engineer Jon Pankake Research, Liner Notes Mike Seeger Program Consultant Minnie Phipps Vocals Nora Byrley Vocals Roy Smeck Guitar, Harmonica Thaddeus C. Willingham, Jr. Banjo, Vocals Thomas Hart Benton Cover Art Wade Mainer Vocals Wilmer Watts Vocals