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These diverse styles and songs from the mountain communities of North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee include old-time fiddle and banjo pieces, early bluegrass, and traditional ballads, with a special emphasis on Appalachian vocal traditions.
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- Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner’s Daughter. From the very first line of “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” it’s clear Lynn is a storyteller. “I was born a Coal Miner’s Daughter in a cabin on a hill Butcher Holler,” she sings.
- Dolly Parton: Coat Of Many Colors. Dolly may be famous for her saccharine country ballads and sweeping pop lyrics, but Coat Of Many Colors, Parton’s 1971 effort, is replete with Appalachian imagery and sounds, products of her Smoky Mountain childhood in Tennessee.
- Steep Canyon Rangers: Nobody Knows You. For anyone who thinks bluegrass is nothing more than a bunch of hillbillies making a terrible racket on washtubs and whiskey jugs, Steep Canyon Rangers are here to knock some cotton-pickin’ sense into ya.
- Doc Watson: Doc Watson. Born in 1923 in the Blue Ridge-adjacent Deep Gap, N.C, Doc Watson was the musician most readily associated with Appalachian music, at least in the technical sense of the phrase.
Appalachian. The folk music of rural Appalachia -- primarily concentrated in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, western North Carolina, eastern Kentucky, and Tennessee -- provided much of the basis for bluegrass and country music.
Appalachian. The folk music of rural Appalachia -- primarily concentrated in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, western North Carolina, eastern Kentucky, and Tennessee -- provided much of the basis for bluegrass and country music.
Website by Designing the Row. As world travelers for nearly two decades, Rising Appalachia have merged multiple global music influences with their own southern roots to create the inviting new folk album, Leylines. Remarkably the band has built its legion of listeners independently -- a self-made success story that has led to ma.
Appalachian Breakdown. From the CD, Melville’s Dozen, available from Innova Recordings
