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Ola Belle Reed

Title: Rising Sun Melodies + 8 unreleased tracks

Label: Smithsonian Folkways

Cat No:SFWCD40202
Format:CD

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• Ola Belle Reed was a trail-blazing force for women in bluegrass music - a folk singer, songwriter and banjo player; an Appalachian woman of hardearned talent and generous ways who delivered honest music sung from the heart.

• Her songs “I’ve Endured,” “High on the Mountain,” (recorded by Del McCoury, Tim O’Brien & Marty Stuart) and “My Epitaph,” and many others, forge real-life experiences into music steeled with determination, family tradition, and commanding presence.

• Ola Belle Campbell Reed was born in Lansing, North Carolina, on August 18, 1916, and died on August 16, 2002.

• These classic tracks from the Smithsonian Folkways and Smithsonian Folklife Festival archives remind us why the light of Ola Belle’s music shines brightly to this day.

• 19 tracks (8 previously unreleased), 61 minutes, 40- page booklet with photos.

Track Listing for Rising Sun Melodies + 8 unreleased tracks
1. I’ve Endured
2. Ola Belle’s Blues
3. Springtime Of Life
4. Bonaparte’s Retreat (Pee Wee King & Redd Stewart)
5. Foggy Mountain Top (A.P. Carter)
6. Fortunes
7. High On A Mountain
8. Sweet Evalina
9. Sing Me A Song
10. Tear Down The Fences
11. My Epitaph
12. Look Down That Lonesome Road **
13. Undone In Sorrow **
14. I Believe In The Old Time Way ** (Charlie Moore/Bill Napier)
15. Nine Pound Hammer ** (Merle Travis)
16. I Am The Man, Thomas ** (Ralph Stanley)
17. I’ve Endured **
18. Ranger’s Command **
19. I Saw The Light ** (Hank Williams)
{ ** Previously Unreleased }

Reviews

fRoots

An absolute treasure from the point where the musical mountains meet the cities.

Songlines - Garth Cartwright

Mountain music pioneer honoured on superb album. ****

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Ola Belle Reed

Rising Sun Melodies + 8 unreleased tracks