Title: Old Love Songs & Ballads / Various
Label: Folkways Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS

Compiled from field recordings made in 1963, this album offers a view of musical life in the Laurel River region of North Carolina, where dances and "workings"-days of common labor followed by evenings of merriment-were once common. Anecdotes in the liner notes from the singers bring the world of Big Laurel to life.

Tracks:
1.1 Pretty Saro (Pretty Sara)
1.2 Fine Sally
1.3 Juba
1.4 Neighbor Girl
1.5 Soldier Traveling from the North
1.6 The Sailor Being Tired
1.7 Hick's Farewell
1.8 In Zepo Town
1.9 Don't You Remember
1.10 Awake, Awake
1.11 Mathie Groves
1.12 Love Has Brought Me to Despair
1.13 Johnny Doyle
1.14 Conversation with Death