Good Old Fashioned Way
$26.98
Vinyl LP pressing. Collection of tracks from the legendary moonshiner, carnival barker, and ballad singer. First discovered and recorded by folklorist and performer Guy Carawan in 1964, Hamper's prodigious talent and personality won him admirers not only in his native Smoky Mountains but throughout the folk music world, where his wholly unique approach to old-time ballads and lyric songs struck like revelations. Recorded by renowned Country Music scholar Charles K. Wolfe and filmmaker Sol Korine at Hamper's home in Monteagle, Tennessee, in 1977, the Good Old-Fashioned Way compiles the best of McBee's traditional ballads, affecting original compositions, and outlandish, side-splitting stories of life on the carnival circuit, at the moonshine still, in the back of Sheriff Bill Malone's patrol car, and as Hamper McBee. You've never met anyone like him before. You'll be glad you did.
Tracklist
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| A1 | Black Jack Davy | 1:00 |
| A2 | Wreck of the Number 9 | 1:48 |
| A3 | Jasper Jail | 1:57 |
| A4 | Talk on Bill Malone | 1:13 |
| A5 | Billy Richardson's Last Ride | 2:21 |
| A6 | Streets of Laredo | 1:57 |
| A7 | Talk on Old-Time Songs | 0:52 |
| A8 | Young Roger the Miller | 2:10 |
| A9 | Talk on Carnival Barking | 2:22 |
| A10 | Cabbage Head (Three Nights Drunk) | 2:13 |
| A11 | Three Nights Drunk (The "Limey version") | 1:07 |
| A12 | John Hardy | 2:58 |
| A13 | Talk on Hot Rod Hogan | 1:54 |
| A14 | Sally Make Water | 0:45 |
| B1 | Jack of Diamonds | 1:05 |
| B2 | Shady Grove | 0:41 |
| B3 | Talk on Carnival & Childhood Recollections | 1:31 |
| B4 | The Little Shirt My Mama Made for Me | 1:15 |
| B5 | Talk on Drinking Still Mash | 1:08 |
| B6 | 100 Gallons | 0:56 |
| B7 | Wauhatchie Yards | 3:05 |
| B8 | Talk on Racing the Southern | 1:16 |
| B9 | Knoxville Girl | 2:40 |
| B10 | The Devil and the Farmer's Wife | 1:40 |
| B11 | Talk on Religion & Drinking on Sunday | 3:52 |
| B12 | Methodist Pie | 1:52 |
| B13 | The Good Old-Fashioned Way | 0:56 |
| B14 | Wearisome Farmer | 1:25 |
| B15 | Dark as a Dungeon | 1:50 |