Bascom Lamar Lunsford

Overview
Bascom Lamar 'The Minstrel Of The Appalachians' Lunsford was a Banjo player, Folklorist, politician, Fiddler, lawyer, and composer.

Biography
He was born in 1882 in South Turkey Creek near Leicester, North Carolina. Throughout his life he traveled around the Appalachian Mountains learning folk songs. His first recordings were done c. 1922-1925 on Wax Cylinders. He started the Mountain Dance And Folk Song Festival in 1928. He recorded 350 songs for the Library Of Congress in 1949. He has recorded more than 300 songs for other collectors. He died in 1973 at the age of 91

Albums Featured

 * The Anthology Of American Folk Music
 * Minstrel Of The Appalachians
 * Ballads, Banjo Tunes And Sacred Songs Of Western North Carolina
 * Serenade The Mountains
 * The Half Ain't Never Been Told (album)
 * Goodbye, Babylon (album)
 * Classic Mountain Songs From Smithsonian Folkways
 * Smoky Mt. Ballads
 * If You Ain't Got The Do-Re-Mi (album)
 * Mountain Frolic
 * The Asch Recordings
 * Old Time Banjo
 * Folk Music U.S.A.
 * Times Ain't Like They Used To Be
 * The Rose Grew Round The Briar
 * Cornshucker's Frolic
 * The 37th Old Time Fiddler's Convention At Union Grove North Carolina
 * The Library Of Congress Archive Of Folk Culture
 * Songs and Ballads of American History and of the Assassination of Presidents

Original Discography

 * Mountain Dew
 * I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground
 * Italy
 * Lost John Dean
 * Get Along Home Cindy
 * Darby's Ram
 * Little Turtle Dove
 * Lulu Wall
 * Kidder Cole
 * No Pros Nellie
 * Stepstones
 * Dry Bones

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