Long Journey Home- A Century After The 1925 Mountain City Fiddlers Convention
Appalsongs, 2025
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Listen to Long Journey Home- A Century After The 1925 Mountain City Fiddlers Convention
An all star line-up comes together for these songs that originated in 1925 at a legendary fiddlers’ convention in Mountain City, Tennessee.
The raw recording of “Cumberland Gap” opens with Stuart Duncan’s playful fiddle guiding the old time fun, and “I’ve Always Been A Rambler” follows with Molly Tuttle and Ketch Secor working together for the rich and rootsy flavor.
Further along, Jake Blount’s meticulous banjo and expressive pipes appear on “House Carpenter”, while “Cuckoo” enlists John McCutcheon’s always impressive playing and inimitable vocals .
Getting close to the end, “Boatin’ Up Sandy” uses the Earl White Stringband for the textured bluegrass, and “Forked Deer” exits with Becky Buller’s animated fiddle guiding the flowing melodies and timeless delivery.
All the artists are donating all profits of this album to the Arts Center in Mountain City, and though a hundred years have passed and the world is vastly different, the southern music still sounds great a century later.
Travels well with: John McCutcheon- Field Of Stars; Ketch Secor- Story The Crow Told Me