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Hobart Smith: The Old Timey Rap

	Hobart Smith of Saltville, Virginia Hobart Smith Folk-Legacy FSA-17 (LP, USA, 1964) Folk-Legacy CD-17 (CD w/ bonus tracks, USA, 2004)
	The Old Timey Rap A Collection of American Songs and Instrumentals Hobart Smith Topic Records 12T187 (LP, UK, 1969)

A Folk-Legacy recording;
Recorded by Norm Pellegrini in 1963;
Folk-Legacy notes by George Armstrong and Fleming Brown;
Topic notes by George Armstrong and A.L. Lloyd

Folk-Legacy album booklet

Musicians

Hobart Smith: vocals, banjo [1, 4, 13], fiddle [2, 5, 7, 10];
Abercrombie Jessup: dulcimer [2];

Tracks

LP Side 1

1. Soldier’s Joy banjo (1.25)
2. Peg and Awl (Roud 4619) (2.49)
3. The Great Titanic (Roud 774; Laws D24) (3.03)
4. Banjo Group: Black Annie (1.22) / Sally Ann (1.55) / Chinquapin Pie (1.54) / Last Chance (1.30) / John Greer’s Tune (1.44)
5. Short Life in Trouble (Roud 3418) (2.57)
6. The Devil and the Farmer’s Wife (Roud 160; Child 278; G/D 2:320) (3.58)
7. Soldier’s Joy fiddle (1.44)

LP Side 2

8. Sitting on Top of the World (Roud 7689) (3.37)
9. Stormy Rose the Ocean (Roud 4828) (2.54)
10. Bonaparte’s Retreat fiddle (2.39)
11. Cuckoo Bird (Roud 413; G/D 6:1157; Henry H479) (2.42)
12. Columbus Stockade Blues (Roud 7480) (3.03)
13. Banjo Group: Cindy (1.49) / The Girl I Left Behind Me (1.22) / John Hardy (Roud 3262; Laws I2) (1.29)
14. Meet Me in Rose Time, Rosie (Roud 12370) (1.49)
15. Uncloudy Day (Roud 17614) (3.04)

CD

1. - 14. as on the LP
15. Shady Grove (Roud 4456) (0.58)
16. Sourwood Mountain (Roud 754) (1.47)
17. K.C. Blues (Roud 4958) (4.28)
18. Uncloudy Day (Roud 17614) (3.04)