Hosts Mother Banjo and Anthony Ihrig talk this Friday with award-winning banjoist, fiddler, singer and ethnomusicologist Jake Blount about his 2017 EP Reparations 🎶 💿. Join us as we listen to his music together and hear the stories behind the songs and recordings.
FEATURED SONGS
- Wiley Lawes’
- We’re Gonna Hunt The Buffalo
- Rolling River
- The Rabbit
SHOW NOTES
Learn More About Jake and purchase his music directly:
https://jakeblount.com/
Banjo Newsletter Article on Jake:
https://banjonews.com/2019-09/jake_blount.html
Tatiana Hargreaves (fiddle player on album)
https://www.tatianahargreaves.com
Brief Bio of Manco Sneed
https://www.blueridgeheritage.com/artist/manco-sneed/
Recording of Manco Sneed Playing Wiley Lawes’:
https://youtu.be/adMvfgzXOjE
Jimmy Driftwood
https://www.jimmydriftwood.com/
Recording of Jimmy Driftwood playing “We’re Gonna Hunt the Buffalo”
https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/were-gonna-hunt-buffalo
Murphy Gribble, John Lusk, and Albert York (home page includes recording of Rolling River)
https://www.gribbleluskandyork.org/
Carolina Chocolate Drops
https://www.rhiannongiddens.com/carolina-chocolate-drops
Abbey Pechman – Album Art Artist
https://www.instagram.com/mindtheglitch/
https://apechman.myportfolio.com/
Teodar Jackson – Texas Fiddler who composed The Rabbit
https://fieldrecorder.org/teodar-jackson-texas-fiddler/
https://www.oldtimeherald.org/2021/12/african-american-fiddling-from-texas-teodar-jackson/