David, Bill and Billie Ray Johnson - Old Time North Carolina Mountain Music (1985)

Born in North Carolina in 1911, Bill Johnson started playing the banjo at the age of eight. With his son Billie Ray on guitar and grandson David on fiddle, he leads three generations of talented mountain musicians in this collection of murder ballads and folk songs.

All the instrumental songs are what Johnson calls “old tunes.” They have been handed down through the generations and can still be heard on front porches and at dances in the Western North Carolina Mountains. Vocal tunes, including “Knoxville Girl” and “Poor Ellen Smith,” are also featured.

Tracklist:
01 - Knoxville Girl
02 - Rueben
03 - The Wreck of the Old 97
04 - Roll on Buddy (Nine Pound Hammer)
05 - Poor Ellen Smith
06 - Possum Blowed His Horn
07 - Banks of the Ohio
08 - Jimmy Sutton
09 - Down in the Willow Garden (Rose Connolly)
10 - Cumberland Gap
11 - Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
12 - Sugar Babe
13 - Pretty Polly
14 - Southwood Mountain