Grassroots singers and players throughout the United States have long cultivated their own varieties of recital music. A simple dance tune transforms into a concert masterpiece; a personal plaint becomes emblematic of an era. With banjo and occasional guitar Stephen Wade explores this music made for music's sake. His selections draw from Southern sources as well as Northern interpreters, centering on lyric folksong and old-time instrumentals transmitted, as one of it's older players memorably said, "across the Amerikee."

Tracklist:

Lost John
Come On Buddie, Don't You Want To Go
Chesley Chancey's Cumberland Gap
Swing And Turn, Jubilee
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
Diamond Joe
Puncheon Camps
Hard Head Hardy
Kc Whistle
Willie Moore
Uncle Dave's Fandango
Goodbye, Old Paint
Tom Paley's John Henry
Trouble At The Coal Creek Mines
Gray Eagle
Lost John
Shortenin' Bread
Reno Factory / Brown Skin Blues
Sourwood Mountain
In The Pines
Cherry Blossom Waltz

UPC: 093074022320
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Release Date: 6.30.17
Format: CD

Stephen Wade - Across The Amerikee: Showpieces From Coal Camp To Cattle Trail (CD)