Hobart Smith - "Cripple Creek"

For more information about this album, click here: http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=3093

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This video features Hobart Smith's "Cripple Creek" from the 2005 album "In Sacred Trust: The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes" on Smithsonian Folkways.


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[evankerry]

Hobart rips it up as always!

[canine2]

There's nothing like the real deal. Thanks for posting!

[shannonandsheila1]

listen you can hear the banjo panting

[nunnrz1]

My step-grandfather died two years ago. I remember him playing guitar and banjo just like this as I grew up. I used to think it "hillbilly music" or music for old people. But awhile back I discovered indie-folk and have since become enamored of these "social anthems" dating back to the English troubadours; a historical record unto themselves. As I listen to and learn to play songs like this I am reminded of the precious resource I neglected.

[ArkRed1]

I was proud to call Fleming Brown my friend. He did one hell of a job to keep these old songs and the performers alive and noticed in the folk world. RIP Flem.

[northwoodband19]

Proud to say I'm from Hobart's home town of Saltville, Virginia, the greatest place on Earth.

[EarlRausch]

Hobart the original shredder,!

[SethLarz]

thanks for post! Check out Senator Robert Byrd's rendition of this classic tune for a good laugh and some damn good hollerin'.

[DonBrodka1]

Thats all banjo

[lizzyvance]

omg. i dont play guitar but thats amazing.

[psweep]

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