Black Twig Pickers

North Fork Flyer

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CD $12.00

06/12/2001 783881006124

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MP3 $9.90

06/12/2001

***North Fork Flyer represents the continued persistence of a type of Appalachian folk music that has come and gone from the popular radar over the years, but has never completely disappeared from the Black Twig Pickers' Southwest Virginia home. The songs on North Fork Flyer are mostly traditional numbers (with a few originals sprinkled in) that form the backbone of a century-old tradition - the music of bonfires, front porches, coal miner's festivals, and informal gatherings. These "mountain ragas," as the group calls them, have been recorded, performed, and revised continually by a who's who of true American artistry - luminaries such as Bukka White, Mississippi John Hurt, John Fahey, Bob Wills, Holy Modal Rounders, New Lost City Ramblers, etc., etc.

Recorded live to DAT on front porches and in family rooms, North Fork Flyer blends the fiddle blues of Ralph Berrier Jr., Isak Howell's sinewy guitar and the drone and twitch of Pelt's Mike Gangloff's fretless clawhammer banjo with the trio's rough-around-the-edges but warm vocal harmonies. Played to the accompaniment of night insects, passing trains, and the noise of wandering children, the music retains the charm of tradition but is free of fake antiquarianism and nostalgia. Regardless of age, the music is just as relevant today as it was 100 years ago and the band plays it like they mean it.

The name of the band comes from the oldest, most crotchety apple variety in the orchard that fiddler Ralph Berrier's family maintains along the musically fertile Virginia-North Carolina line. Black Twig plays regularly in Southwest Virginia.

Tracklist

#1 Spike Driver's Blues

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#2 Sail Away Ladies

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#3 Poor Boy Long Ways From Home

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#4 Isak's Blues No. 1

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#5 Get Along Home Cindy

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#6 Cold, Frosty Morning

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#7 Reuben's Blues

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#8 Lonesome Clinch Mountain

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#9 Ebeneezer

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#10 Two White Horses In A Line

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#11 Rambling Hobo

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#12 Angelina Baker

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#13 Isak's Blues No. 2

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#14 Fair And Tender Ladies

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#15 Little Sadie

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#16 Great Valley Mine

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#17 Train On The Island

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North Fork Flyer

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