Warner Collection Vol. 2: Nothing Seems Better to Me

Description

WARNER COLLECTION, VOL. 2: NOTHING SEEMS BETTER TO ME

Track Listing
1. Mule Skinner Blues – Frank Proffitt
2. Going Cross the Mountain – Frank Proffitt
3. Tom Dooley – Frank Proffitt
4. Conversation With Frank Proffitt
5. Tom Dooley – Frank Proffitt
6. Conversation With Buna Vista Hicks
7. Sally Ann – Buna Vista Hicks
8. Drunkard’s Doom – Buna Vista Hicks
9. Awake My Own True Loveyer – Lee Monroe Presnell Awake
10. My Sweet Soldier Boy – Lee Monroe Presnell
11. Oh Bud – J.B. Sutton
12. When Sorrows Encompass Me Around – Linzy Hicks
13. George Collins – Nathan/Rena Hicks
14. Bolamkin – Frank Proffitt
15. Cripple Creek – Frank Proffitt
16. Hangman – Frank Proffitt
17. Poor Soldier – Frank Proffitt
18. Pretty Polly – Frank Proffitt
19. Paul Jones – Charles K. Tillett
20. The – Eleazar Tillett Southern Girl’s Reply
21. Only a Friend – Curt Mann
22. Rocky by Baby – Rebecca King Jones
23. O Captain – Rebecca King Jones Captain
24. O Wake, You Drowsy Sleeper – R. Jones Wake
25. Sweet by and By – Frank Proffitt
26. Cindy – Frank Proffitt
27. Groundhog – Frank Proffitt
28. Nothing Seems Better to Me – Joseph Henry Johnson
29. The – Eleazar Tillet Snow Is on the Ground
30. Conversation With Eleazar Tillett
31. Fisherman’s Girl – Eleazar Tillet/Martha Etheridge
32. Beaver Dam Road – Frank Proffitt
33. Conversation With Frank Proffitt
34. W P and A – Frank Proffitt
35. (Going Where) – Frank Proffitt My Troubles Will Be Over
36. Kicking up Dust – Frank Proffitt Jr.
37. O Johnny – Buna Hicks Johnny
38. The – Lee Monroe Presnell Two Sisters That Loved One Man
39. Old Virginny – Le Monroe Presnell
40. Conversation With Lee Monre Presnell
41. You Are My Darling – Lee Monroe Presnell Johnny
42. Muskrat – Roby Monre Hicks
43. Young Johnny – Roby Monroe Hicks
44. Sourwood Mountain – Frank Proffitt
45. Trifling Woamn – Frank Proffitt
46. Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss – Frank Proffitt
47. Wild Stormy Deep – Homer Cornett

Playing Time:    75 min.

Album Notes
Includes liner notes by Jeff Davis.Digitally remastered by David Glaser and Charlie Pilzer.Volume one of this collection featured an overview of the music collected in the South over five decades by Frank and Ann Warner. (See Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still: The Warner Collection, Vol. 1.) This simultaneously released second collection focuses largely on Frank Proffitt, who taught “Tom Dooley” to the Warners (who passed it on to the Kingston Trio, whose three-million-selling version helped launch the modern folk revival). Also, here are such terrific unknowns as Lee Monroe, Presnell, Buna Hicks, and Rebecca King Jones. Like volume one, this collection offers a rare and unforgettable look at a lost world. There’s lots of evocative between song chit-chat and an abundance of priceless early folk music. The sound quality is first-rate, especially considering that these are field recordings, made mostly on very primitive equipment. And the liner notes — featuring photos by Frank Warner, essays by the couple’s two sons, and lots of detail on the songs and artists — are exemplary. ~ Jeff Burger