Blind Alfred Reed: Appalachian Visionary - COMPACT DISCS

Blind Alfred Reed: Appalachian Visionary - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Appalachian Visionary Artist: Blind Alfred Reed Label: Dust to Digital Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 880226004828 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2016 02 19 Number of Discs: 2 Additional Details: WITH BOOK Hardcover 84 page book with CD and streaming download code. Born blind on June 15, 1880, in Floyd County, Virginia, Alfred Reed grew up on a West Virginia farm. In the 1920s, when radio became available in his area, Alfred listened to and

Title: Appalachian Visionary
Artist: Blind Alfred Reed
Label: Dust to Digital
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 880226004828
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2016-02-19
Number of Discs: 2
Additional Details: WITH BOOK

Hardcover 84-page book with CD and streaming/download code. Born blind on June 15, 1880, in Floyd County, Virginia, Alfred Reed grew up on a West Virginia farm. In the 1920s, when radio became available in his area, Alfred listened to and enjoyed performances by several of the era's popular singers. Alfred would purchase songbooks and hymnbooks, and his wife Nettie would read the lyrics to him. Because the songs he learned from others did not always express aspects of what he was thinking, feeling, and experiencing, Alfred felt compelled to compose his own songs, and he was exceptionally talented in this endeavor - a craftsman with many things to say. Relying upon his talent to generate money, he gave music lessons, performed at dances and various social and church gatherings, sold printed copies of his own lyrics, and, in 1927 and 1929, made the commercial recordings included on this set. Also includes performances by The West Virginia Night Owls, Orville Reed, and Alfred and Orville Reed. Compiled by Ted Olson, a scholar, poet, photographer, and musician based in east Tennessee. Olson has written or edited several books on Appalachian music, literature, and folklore, and he has curated book/album sets documenting such Appalachia-related music stories as the 1927-1928 Bristol Sessions, the 1928-1929 Johnson City Sessions, the 1929-1930 Knoxville Sessions, the Joseph Hall field recordings from the Great Smoky Mountains, and the early studio recordings of Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Tracks:
1.1 Blind Alfred Reed - the Wreck of the Virginian
1.2 Blind Alfred Reed - I Mean to Live for Jesus
1.3 Blind Alfred Reed - You Must Unload
1.4 Blind Alfred Reed - Walking in the Way with Jesus
1.5 Blind Alfred Reed - Explosion in the Fairmount Mines
1.6 Blind Alfred Reed - Fate of Chris Lively and Wife
1.7 Blind Alfred Reed - Why Do You Bob Your Hair, Girls
1.8 Blind Alfred Reed - Always Lift Him Up and Never Knock Him Down
1.9 Blind Alfred Reed - the Prayer of the Drunkard's Little Girl
1.10 The West Virginia Night Owls - Sweet Bird - West Virginia Night Owls
1.11 The West Virginia Night Owls - I'm Goin' to Walk the Streets of Glory - West Virginia Night Owls
1.12 Orville Reed - the Telephone Girl - Orville Reed
1.13 Blind Alfred Reed - Woman's Been After Man Ever Since
1.14 Blind Alfred Reed - Why Do You Bob Your Hair Girls-No. 2
1.15 Blind Alfred Reed and Orville Reed - There'll Be No Distinction There - Blind Alfred Reed ; Orville Reed
1.16 Blind Alfred Reed and Orville Reed - We've Got to Have 'Em, That's All - Blind Alfred Reed ; Orville Reed
1.17 Blind Alfred Reed and Orville Reed Beware - Blind Alfred Reed ; Orville Reed
1.18 Blind Alfred Reed and Orville Reed - the Old-Fashioned Cottage - Blind Alfred Reed ; Orville Reed
1.19 Blind Alfred Reed - How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
1.20 Blind Alfred Reed - Black and Blue Blues
1.21 Blind Alfred Reed and Orville Reed - You'll Miss Me - Blind Alfred Reed ; Orville Reed
1.22 Blind Alfred Reed - Money Cravin' Folks