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OHCD1007 - CD
670725100721
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Gastonia Gallop is a vivid portrait of music heard in the mill villages of Gaston County, North Carolina during the years 1927-1931. Amid an emerging world of factory whistles, clattering machines, and low-wage labor, local textile workers created a vibrant new music that provided the foundation for today's country music. Included are protest songs, ragtime tunes, Tin Pan Alley songs, minstrel pieces, ballads and blues by masters of the guitar, banjo, harmonica, and mandolin. Here are 24 tracks, expertly remastered and accompanied by a 24-page full-color booklet with detailed history, rare photographs, and full discography. "The massive brick hulks of many of the old textile mills now stand silent, boarded up and abandoned, but echoes of the distinctive hillbilly music that millhands in Gaston County and all across the Piedmont South forged on radio and records during the 1920s and 1930s continue to reverberate throughout the United States and, indeed, the world." -Patrick Huber, author, Linthead Stomp, The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South
Tracks
1. DAVID McCARN / Gastonia Gallop
2. THREE ?BACCER TAGS / Get Your Head In Here
3. CAROLINA TWINS / Gal of Mine Took My Licker From Me
4. DAVID McCARN / Cotton Mill Colic
5. WILMER WATTS & The LONELY EAGLES / Been On The Job Too Long
6. CAROLINA TWINS / Southern Jack
7. DAVID McCARN / Everyday Dirt
8. WILMER WATTS & The LONELY EAGLES / Bonnie Bess
9. GEORGE WADE & FRANCUM BRASWELL / Think A Little
10. DAVE & HOWARD / Bay Rum Blues
11. WATTS & WILSON / Walk Right In Belmont
12. FLETCHER & FOSTER / Red Rose Rag
13. DAVID McCARN / Poor Man, Rich Man (Cotton Mill Colic No. 2)
14. WILMER WATTS & The LONELY EAGLES / She?s A Hard Boiled Rose
15. CAROLINA TWINS /I Want My Black Baby Back
16. THREE ?BACCER TAGS / Ain?t Gonna Do It No More
17. WILMER WATTS & The LONELY EAGLES /Sleepy Desert
18. DAVID McCARN / Take Them For A Ride
19. FLETCHER & FOSTER / Charlotte Hot Step
20. WILMER WATTS & The LONELY EAGLES / Cotton Mill Blues
21. GEORGE WADE & FRANCUM BRASWELL / When You Go A Courtin?
22. CAROLINA TWINS / A Change In Business All Around
23. WILMER WATTS & The LONELY EAGLES / Working For My Sally
24. DAVE & HOWARD / Serves ?Em Fine
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