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Strange Creek Fiddling 1947
John Johnson

These 23 John Johnson tracks were selected from 80 sides recorded by Professor Louis Chappell, the famed West Virginia University folklorist, over a concentrated two-day session in August 1947 using a homemade aluminium-disc recording machine. This CD makes part of that session available to the public for the first time.

Some selections here ("Sally Ann," "Wagoner") and classics, some are samples of the West Virginia repertoire ("Shelvin' Rock," "Camp Chase") and some are fairly unknown tunes ("Brickyard Joe"), all preserved when a great, original stylist was in his prime.