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Frank Proffitt: North Carolina Songs and Ballads

Traditional Songs and Ballads of Appalachia (Folk-Legacy FSA-1)

Traditional Songs and Ballads of Appalachia
Frank Proffitt of Reese, NC (1913-1965)

Folk-Legacy Records FSA-1 (LP, USA, 1962)
Folk-Legacy Records CD-1 (CD, USA, 2001)

 Traditional Songs and Ballads of Appalachia (Folk-Legacy CD-1)
North Carolina Songs and Ballads (Topic 12T162)

North Carolina Songs and Ballads
Frank Proffitt (1913-1965)

Topic Records 12T162 (LP, UK, 1966);

Notes and photograph by Sandy Paton

Musicians

Frank Proffitt, vocals, banjo

Tracks

Side 1Side 2
  1. Trifling Woman (2.16)
  2. Cluck Old Hen (2.20)
  3. Morning Fair (3.48)
  4. Bonnie James Campbell (Child 210) (1.25)
  5. Lord Randall (Child 12) (3.27)
  6. Handsome Molly (1.45)
  7. Reuben Train (2.56)
  8. Tom Dooley (Dula) (2.43)
  9. I’m Going Back to North Carolina (1.53)
  1. Moonshine (1.40)
  2. Rye Whiskey (2.31)
  3. I’ll Never Get Drunk No More (2.32)
  4. Wild Bill Jones (3.25)
  5. Gyps of David (Child 200) (2.56)
  6. Song of a Lost Hunter (Love Henry) (Child 68) (4.23)
  7. Sourwood Mountain (2.30)
  8. Going Across the Mountain (2.14)

All tracks trad. except
Tracks 1, 12 Frank Proffitt;
Track 8 trad. arr. Alan Lomax, Warner, Frank Proffitt;
Track 17 trad. / Frank Proffitt

Acknowledgements

Thank you very much to Alistair Banfield for the picture of the Folk-Legacy LP.