Posted on 10/25/2023 4:18:15 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
This is a video of Bascom Lamar Lunsford (fiddle and vocals) and three other musicians (guitar and banjo) singing a song called "Doggett Gap" recorded in Ashville, North Carolina on October 7th, 1928.
"Doggett Gap" seems very similar to the more famous "Cumberland Gap", so it could simply be a variation of Cumberland Gap with an alternate title.
• Tommy Jarrell: Cumberland Gap (1983)
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Goosebumps!
Heard my first mountain music when I was seven.
It was on a front porch in Tennessee.
Grampa had a hunting coat just like the fiddle player.
I can’t count how many times I have stomped a hole in the sod doing the bluegrass shuffle. Just like the fiddle player.
Wow.
Thanks.
Bkmk
Can’t get enough of this stuff.
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What’s interesting about these musicians is not one was taught how to hold or play their instruments. It was true improvisation all the way including the tunes and the effect the music had on the participants. Music, after all, is sympathetic vibrations that resonate with the soul and you can see it at work in its natural form with these musicians. They love to make music together because while they do so it’s feeding their souls.
I believe it’s true that fiddle players are born, not made.
Same holds true with early klezmer, jazz and blues players.
Wonderful. Thanks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJuTDjZb284
Buffy St Marie’s version
Doggett’s Gap · Buffy Sainte-Marie
Fire Fleet And Candlelight
℗ 2006 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Love Appalachian music when done correctly and not sounding like country music.
Roscoe Holcomb was touted as the king of “That High Lonesome Sound” (his voice though takes some acquired taste- I happen to like it)
What an interesting guy. I had never heard of him.
The video also sheds some light on why Asheville, NC, is such an outlier from the rest of the region and ended up becoming a pocket of leftism.
Huh. Didn't catch that. I'd appreciate if you could skool me on it.
Also, just past the 4 minute mark, where the vid focuses on his shuffle (I like the leathers leg protectors!) - you can see a rifle leaning on the side of the porch.
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I just realized I watched a different video! Somehow I landed on a documentary about Bascom Lamar Lunsford. Here’s the part about Asheville (starts at 38:44):
https://youtu.be/F-t7lH0Uzu0?si=h3HVCSP8AUtHJ9zV&t=2324
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