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Hobart Smith: The Old Timey Rap

Hobart Smith: The Old Timey Rap (Topic 12T187)

The Old Timey Rap
A Collection of American Songs and Instrumentals
Hobart Smith

Folk-Legacy (LP, USA, 1964)
Topic Records 12T187 (LP, UK, 1969)
Folk-Legacy CD-17 (CD w/ bonus tracks, USA, 1964)

A Folk-Legacy recording;
Recorded by Norm Pellegrini 1n 1963;
Notes by George Armstrong and A.L. Lloyd

Musicians

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

Tracks

Side 1Side 2
  1. Soldier’s Joy banjo (1.25)
  2. Peg and Awl (2.49)
  3. The Great Titanic (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 (2.57)
  6. The Devil and the Farmer's Wife (3.58)
  7. Soldier’s Joy fiddle (1.44)
  1. Sitting on Top of the World (3.37)
  2. Stormy Rose the Ocean (2.54)
  3. Bonaparte's Retreat fiddle (2.39)
  4. Cuckoo Bird (2.42)
  5. Columbus Stockade Blues (3.03)
  6. Banjo Group: Cindy (1.49) / The Girl I Left Behind Me (1.22) / John Hardy (Roud 3262; Laws I2) (1.29)
  7. Meet Me in Rose Time, Rosie (1.49)
  8. Uncloudy Day (3.04)