Hosts Mother Banjo and Anthony Ihrig talk this Friday with award-winning banjoist, fiddler, singer and ethnomusicologist Jake Blount about his 2017 EP Reparations ๐ถ ๐ฟ. 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/