The third album in an important series with 30 ballads, folksongs and spirituals, many originating in Britain, sung in the old nasal mountain style and recorded by Frank & Anne Warner, 1951-60. Twenrty items were included in their book, TRADITIONAL AMERICAN FOLKSONGS. The older singers, Monroe Presnell and Roby Hicks and his wife, Buna, and their family preserve the ancient style, giving a concept of how our own unaccompanied tradition must once have sounded.

1. WAY UP IN SOFIELD [Book #80 & #152] (THE SHEFFIELD APPRENTICE) Roby Hicks 1941 (talk before about old songs originating in England) - 3'46"

2. Talk by Buna with FW about her fiddle and tuning strings; SALLY ANNE played 1951 - 2'47"

3. Talk by Buna & Roby about hiding from Civil War soldiers under the floor (see Book p212) & song: JOHNNY, O JOHNNY (THE CRUEL WARS ARE RAGING) sung by Roby - 3'32"

4. (YOUNG) JOHNNY DOYLE & SAMUEL MOORE [#81] Roby (talk aft) - 3'24"

5. DARK AND STARLISH NIGHT (THE DRUNKARD'S DOOM) [#82] Buna (talk bef) - 1'47"

7. THE RIVER OF LIFE [#85] Buna & group 1951 - 2'15"

8. THE CARPENTER'S WIFE (See TAFS#45) Roby 1951 (talk aft) - 4'38"

9. SOLDIER JOHN, WON'T YOU MARRY ME? Linzy 1951 (talk bef) - 1'31"

10. RUDE AND RAMBLING BOY (THE BUTCHER BOY) [#86] Buna 1959 - 1'08"

11. MUSKRAT sung by Roby (with banjo) 1941 - 0'39"

12. VOICE FROM THE TOMBS [#87] Buna with daughters Hattie and Rosa 1951 (t/a) - 1'58"

13. WHERE THE SUN DON'T NEVER GO DOWN [#88] Linzy Hicks (vocal/ dulcimer) with Hattie & Rosa (talk aft about first hearing & how sung when leaving church) - 3'15"

14. IN THE SWEET BY AN' BY sung by Frank Proffitt Senior (gtr) & group 1940 - 1'19"

15. OLD MISTER DEVIL (AND THE FARMER'S WIFE) [#89] Hattie & Rosa 1951 - 2'14"

16. KICKING UP DUST - Dance composed & played by Frank Proffitt Junior (with dulcimer) 1966 - 1'30"

17. PRETTY CROWIN' CHICKENS [#90] (LIGHT OF THE MOON) Hattie, Buna & Rosa 1951 - 2'50"

18. MULESKINNER BLUES (Jimmy Rodgers "Blue Yodel") sung by Frank Proffitt Senior 1941 - 0'28"

19. TALKING WITH THE SOCIAL UNION [#91] Hattie & Rosa - 0'33"

20. PALMS OF VICTORY [#92] Linzy - 1.58

21. A POOR WAYFARING PILGRIM [#93] Linzy with group 1966 (FW invites everyone to join in) - 2'39"

22. WHEN SORROWS ENCOMPASS ME ALL ROUND [#94] Linzy 1966 - 1'35"

23. WILD STORMY DEEP [#95] Homer Cornett (with gtr) 1959 - 2'44"

24. I'M GOING WHERE MY TROUBLES WILL BE OVER sung by Frank Proffitt Senior 1959 - 1'15"

Recorded by Frank & Anne Warner, 1951-60. Edited by Peter Kennedy and first published on Folktrax cassettes 1987.

THE HICKS FAMILY. Roby, uncle of Nathan Hicks, who was the Warner's first contact when they wrote to him to order a home-made dulcimer, and Buna, Roby's wife, raised 11 children and both played fiddle, banjo and dulcimer (see FTX-927). Roby also told stories and Jack Tales (See FTX-928). Linzy was one of 9 sons, their only two daughters being Hattie and Rosa.

HOMER CORNETT was a neighbour to Frank Proffitt (See FTX-924 and FTX-925). His brother married Frank's sister. Homer was a shy young man, but already, in 1959, playing a guitar, which was not so common in the mountains as fiddles, banjos and dulcimers.