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Folk Songs of Old Kentucky: Two Song Catchers in the Kentucky Mountains, 1914 and 1916, with Arrangements for Appalachian Dulcimer by Mel Bay Publications (Paperback / softback, 2003)

This book provides 20 beautiful Anglo-American folk songs, field-collected by two remarkable real-life song catchers, Josephine McGill and Loraine Wyman, in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky in 1914 and 1916. Josephine and Loraine, the latter accompanied by Howard Brockway, a composer and arranger, were among the first persons to search for folk songs in the Southern Appalachians. The musical adventurers traveled hundreds of miles on horseback and on foot through an inaccessible world to which radios, roads and cars had t yet come. They made friends in isolated log cabins, and transcribed some 200 song treasures, some of which they published in complex arrangements in books that are w out of print and rare. This book contains a selection of the songs, presented with simplified musical tation, guitar chords, and dulcimer tablature. It also includes glowing ¬counts of their mountain adventures, published by Josephine and Howard in long-forgotten publications; a must for all lovers of American folk music.

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