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Old Songs,Old Friends: 1 Traditional Music of Union County, North Carolina

RECORDED BY KAREN G. HELMS & ono HENRY

Made possible in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council

COVER DESIGN BY RONALD CLYNE

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SIDE ONE

Karen Helms (L) &

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CACKUN' HEN (1:25) Roy Pope and the Carolina Homeboys FROGGIE WENT-A-COURTlN' (2:27) Otis High and Flarrie Grimm CAPTAIN KARO (1) Otis High HOOKAND UNE(1:4S) Bascom Traywick JACK AND JO (2:10) John A. Bivens YOUNG LADIES TAKE WARNING (1:18) Otis High LADY BRIDE AND THREE BABES (2) Seena Helms KATY KUNE(2) Horace Helms GRANDMA'S ADVICE (1) John A. Bivens FIRE ON THE HILLSIDE (1:50) Roy Pope and the Carolina Homeboys

SIDE TWO IT RAINED FIVE DAYS (1:30) Willie Hamilton CAN'T HIT LUCKY (1 :45) Willie Hamilton JOHN HENRY (1:30) Willie Hamilton LEATHER BRITCHES (1:10) Roy Pope HOLLER JIMMY RILEY HO (:45) Henry Griffin PATSY BEASLEY (2:30) Henry Griffin IN THE RESURRECTION MORNING (2:10) Bascom Traywick CHRISTIAN PILGRIM (2) Seena Helms PIONEER COURTSHIP (1 :20) Seena Helms SOLDIER'S JOY (2:45) Horace Helms and Karen Helms

Photographers for Hand·Me·Down Music, Volume I: Doug Helms, Professor of Art in Ceramics at Wingate College. Jeff Griffin, undergraduate student in the School of Radial

Television, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Recording Engineer and Editor: Dr. Otto Henry, Director of Electronic Music and Ethnomusicology

at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.

Special thanks go to: Members of the Wingate College Evening Folklore Seminar

of 1977 (Pat Sturdivant, Janice Meggs, Virginia Griffin, Ann Williams)

Ben Helms of the Ma-Lek Industries and Bernard Helms, Mayor, Wingate N.C.

THIS RECORD ALBUM WAS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY A FOLK ARTS GRANT FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, 1978·9, AND A RESIDENCY FROM THE NORTH CAROLINA ARTS COUNCIL, 1976-8.

© 1979 FOlKWA YS RECORDS AND SE RVICE CORP. 43 W. 61st ST .• N.V.C., U.S.A. 10023

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Old Songs,Old Friends: 1 Traditional Music of Union County, North Carolina RECORDED BY KAREN G. HELMS &.ono HENRY

DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ARE INSIDE POCKET

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