A ACS 6.398
Artist: Jimmy, Lod, and Currence Hammonds
Album/Event: Interview
Tracks: The Lost Girl, Lost Indian, Give the Fiddler a Dram, Cumberland Gap, Sourwood Mountain, Soldier’s Joy, Old Man of the Mountain Coming Home, John Roberts’s Waltz, Bonaparte’s Retreat, John Robert’s Tune, Dance All Night, Flop-Eared Mule, Arkansas Traveler, Give the Fiddler a Dram, John Robert’s Tune, The Roving Game;
Old Sledge, Jack of Diamonds, Barbara Allen, Cotton-Eyed Joe, Lamp Light in the Valley, Rocking Alone in an Old Armchair, Whoa Mule, Slimy Bottom, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Black Mountain Rag, Fireball Mail (?), Girl I Left Behind Me, Jimmy Johnson, Birdie, Irish Washerwoman, Korean Tune, Ralph Robert’s Original Tune
Collected/Recorded by: Jim Triplett
Date: 11/14/1996
Location: Frametown, WV
Notes: Plays fiddle tunes with commentary about sources of tunes, which include his grandfather John Roberts, his uncles Hazel, Emmett, and Clyde Roberts, and community musicians he has known from his youth in Webster County and more recently Braxton County; Speaks of Hammons family, to whom he is related through his grandfather Roberts; refers to Sherman Hammons as “Sherm”; Ralph’s wife Charley Roberts was present;
The Milnes Collection contains audio-visual recordings made and collected by the Augusta Heritage Center’s former Folk Arts Coordinator, Gerald Milnes. Throughout his career with Augusta, Milnes conducted field work to amass a large collection of oral histories, music, and event recordings. He recorded the bulk of the collection from the early 1970s to 2013, but the collection also includes tapes with earlier dates that others sent to him.