{"product_id":"folk-songs-of-old-kentucky-ralph-smith-9780786649266","title":"Folk Songs of Old Kentucky: Two Song Catchers in the Kentucky Mountains, 1914 and 1916, with Arrangements for Appalachian Dulcimer","description":"This book provides 20 beautiful Anglo-American folk songs, field-collected by two remarkable real-life song catchers, Josephine McGill and Loraine Wyman, in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky in 1914 and 1916. Josephine and Loraine, the latter accompanied by Howard Brockway, a composer and arranger, were among the first persons to search for folk songs in the Southern Appalachians. The musical adventurers traveled hundreds of miles on horseback and on foot through an inaccessible world to which radios, roads and cars had not yet come. They made friends in isolated log cabins, and transcribed some 200 song treasures, some of which they published in complex arrangements in books that are now out of print and rare. This book contains a selection of the songs, presented with simplified musical notation, guitar chords, and dulcimer tablature. It also includes glowing \\accounts of their mountain adventures, published by Josephine and Howard in long-forgotten publications; a must for all lovers of American folk music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ralph Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0786649267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780786649266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mel Bay Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.74h x 8.42w x 0.19d","brand":"Ralph Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44522267541759,"sku":"9780786649266","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cf336b42-d064-4c89-949e-54155a525c2c.jpg?v=1700156384","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/folk-songs-of-old-kentucky-ralph-smith-9780786649266","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}