Title: Cumberland Mountain Folksongs Artist: Clayton, Paul Label: Folkways Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 093070200722 Genre: Country, Folk
Collector Paul Clayton performs the songs and ballads he collected in the Cumberland Mountains of Virginia and Kentucky in the 1950s-a repertoire that includes both old English and Scottish ballads and recently-composed songs about events such as the cave-in that trapped and killed Floyd Collins in Kentucky's Sand Cave in 1925.
Tracks: 1.1 The Hustling Gamblers 1.2 Lord Bateman (Child No. 53) 1.3 Floyd Collins 1.4 Mush Toodin 1.5 House Carpenter (Child No. 243) 1.6 Sugar Baby 1.7 Spotty and Dudie 1.8 Pretty Polly and False William (Child No. 4) 1.9 Once I Courted a Bonny Little Girl 1.10 Kathy Fiscus 1.11 Walk, Tom Wilson, Walk 1.12 Cold Winter's Night 1.13 Texas Rangers