Haywood, John: Upon My Word & Honor
Haywood, John: Upon My Word & Honor
Format: CD
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Artist: Haywood, John
Label: Never Met a Stranger
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 877746004698
Genre: Folk
Kentucky mountain music was described by Pete Seeger in 1987: "I have no proof, but I suspect that the Kentucky mountain style (of singing a short verse in a high intense voice, and then playing for 20 or 30 seconds some lightning quick notes on the banjo) is descended from the West African style in some way." The music Seeger described came to east Kentucky from Virginia with the enslaved, mixed-race people (some known as Melungeon), and white musicians whose ancestors socialized with African Americans beginning in east Virginia. Banjo songsters, once common in the Kentucky mountains, are now scarce. John Haywood is one of the last of the Kentucky mountain banjo songsters. When listening to Haywood's recording, "Upon My Word and Honor," one can hear echoes of West African music through his high, intense singing and his outstanding banjo playing. Haywood's selection of tunes are a tribute to songsters who are no longer with us: the Couch family of Harlan County, Lee Sexton, Dewey Shepherd, Morgan Sexton, Willy Chapman, Gran Hudson, Roscoe Holcomb, Reverend Buell Kazee, WL Gregory and Clyde Davenport, Jack and Henry Bunch, Rufus Crisp, Banjo Bill Cornett, and Coy Morton. -George Gibson, Winter 2023
Tracks:
1.1 Cold Icy Mountain
1.2 Hey John D
1.3 Jenny Git Around
1.4 Jack Monroe
1.5 Little Sparrow
1.6 Bunker Hill
1.7 Red Rocking Chair
1.8 Snow White Shirt
1.9 Cumberland Gap
1.10 Buck Creek Girls
1.11 Southern Texas
1.12 Coal Creek March
1.13 Jay Gould's Daughter
1.14 Bloom of Her Youth
1.15 Rocky Road up Doubles
1.16 Tom Cat's Kitten
1.17 Uncle Henry's Tune
1.18 Never Get Drunk Anymore
1.19 Ball n Chain
1.20 Take Me Back to East Kentucky
1.21 Coy Morton's Fox Chase
