In Sacred Trust: The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes

Hobart Smith - In Sacred Trust: The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes

In Sacred Trust: The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes
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Artist: Hobart Smith
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-08-30
Music Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Soundtracks:
  1. Heaven?s Airplane
  2. Banging Breakdown
  3. Buck Creek Girls
  4. Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
  5. Brown Skin Blues
  6. John Brown?s Dream
  7. The Cuckoo
  8. Cripple Creek
  9. John Greer?s Two-Step
  10. Wabash Blues
  11. Jim and Me
  12. Old Joe Clark
  13. John Henry
  14. Give Me Your Heart
  15. What Did the Buzzard Say to the Crow
  16. Soldier?s Joy
  17. Uncloudy Day
  18. I Feel So Good
  19. Cumberland Gap
  20. Jim Along
  21. Soldier?s Joy
  22. Railroad Bill (Intro)
  23. Railroad Bill
  24. Old Joe Clark
  25. Wayfaring Stranger
  26. Chatham Hill Serenade
  27. I?ll Meet You When the Sun Goes Down
  28. Indian March
  29. Walking Boss
  30. Woman at the Well
  31. Clog Dance with Guitar
  32. Black Annie
  33. Wildwood Flower
  34. Full of Music as I Could Be
  35. Katie Went a-Fishin? with a Hook and Line
  36. K.C. Moan

Music reviews of In Sacred Trust: The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes

Music Review: Approaching the Divine...
Rating: 5 Stars

... I believe that's how I remember John Cohen describing Wade Ward's best banjo playing in a set of liner-notes. It's a most appropriate tag for Hobart Smith found as he is here in october of 1963 on banjo, fiddle, acoustic guitar and piano. With this set, with the recording of the tapes from which this set was born, Fleming Brown set his place in history alongside Harry Oster (I'm as Blue as a Man Can Be, Poor Bob's Blues), Mike Seeger (Dock Boggs: His Folkways Years 1963-1968, Masters of Old-Time Country Autoharp) and John Fahey (Vanguard Sessions: Blues From The Delta) as one of those visionaries of the 1950s and '60s who were progressive enough to go to the root, the source, the True Vine before some of its most outstanding muscians were gone.

Notes To Wandering Deadheads and Garcia/Grisman Fans: Yes, Walking Boss is the tune you know from Grisman & Garcia, though here on Hobart's banjo it joins Cuckoo and Wabash Blues in reaching an almost cruel intensity of beauty and attack.

I also have Blue Ridge Legacy - The Alan Lomax Portait Series and love it but there's something unspeakably special about these Fleming Brown tapes... about this whole production, liner-notes, interview snips and all. Old-timers and newbies alike, this is essential.

When the genuine mountain banjo masters are doing it, I mean really doing it, there's nothing else like it. It doesn't happen when Bela Fleck plays banjo. It doesn't happen when Earl Scruggs plays banjo. The 5-string, hypnotic, ancient magic happens in a major way when Hobart Smith played the banjo.

I get chills during this disc. There's more going on here than just music. There's the fading of memory, there's America, there's life and there's death. There's family and tradition and some things that never will be again. There's Being in this world, in the best possible sense. Then again, all those things are in Hobart's music, so maybe another wise man was right.

"In the end there's just a song
comes crying like the wind
through all the broken dreams
and vanished years."

Description of In Sacred Trust: The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes

On this album of never-before-released work, mountain music virtuoso Hobart Smith(1897-1965) plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and piano in addition to singing, clog dancing,and reminiscing. Taped shortly before he died by fellow banjo player Fleming Brown,Smith brings us back to a vanished era in these deeply personal recordings. 80-page book, historical photos, lyrics,two tablatures, 36 tracks, 72 minutes. Produced and annotated by Stephen Wade.

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