This blog aims to discover and share the traditional music of the Appalachian mountains. I hope that it will be a tool of discovered and of knowledge of this rich cultural heritage. To listen to the traditional music of the East cost mountains is to discover a whole people and his heart. The melancholy, the joy, the sadness, the love, all the feelings which are common to all the human being are in this music, simple and however so powerful.
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Whitter was a millhand from a cotton mill town, Fries, Virginia, in Grayson Counthy, near the head of the New River Valley. That county and neighborning Carroll county produced many early string band musicians and Whitter was the first from there to record....
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Gilliam Banmon Grayson was known to most residents of northeastern Tennessee as "Banmon" when these recordings were made. He was born in Ashe County, N.C. on November 11, 1887. His family moved a few miles west when he was two years old, into Johnson...
