Cumberland Moonshiner
Label | Spring Fed Records – SFR-107 |
Format | CD, Album, Reissue |
Barcode | 0884501396509 |
Country | US |
Released | 19 Apr 2011 |
Genre | Folk, World, & Country |
Style | Appalachian Music, Folk |
The 1978 film, Raw Mash, and its companion LP, made Hamper McBee an underground celebrity. As a media cult figure, you might say he blazed the Appalachian bad-boy trail later trod by Jesco White and Popcorn Sutton. Foul-mouthed but engaging, Hamper loved the attention that followed him most of the remaining twenty years of his life. Cumberland Moonshiner, originally released in 1964 by the Prestige label, was comprised of recordings of McBee made by folksinger and activist, Guy Carawan in 1962. Hamper was known as a rough-hewn but excellent ballad singer and he excels on that part of his repertoire as well as giving great performances of folk and old time country standards as well as original material such as Jasper Jail. Also included are two tracks of McBee's commentary about his exploits as a moonshiner.
1 | Good Ole Mountain Dew | 2:34 |
2 | Black Jack Davey | 1:33 |
3 | Devil and the Farmer's Wife | 1:47 |
4 | John Hardy | 3:04 |
5 | Darby Ram | 1:54 |
6 | Wearisome Farmer | 1:27 |
7 | Methodist Pie | 3:08 |
8 | Moonshining | 2:14 |
10 | Jasper Jail | 2:14 |
11 | More Moonshining | 2:50 |
12 | Three Nights Drunk | 2:02 |
13 | Brown Mountain Light | 2:05 |
14 | 900 Miles | 2:13 |
15 | Long Black Veil | 2:34 |
16 | Wreck Of The Old No. 9 | 2:02 |
Graphic Design – Sharisse Steber
Mastered By – Martin Fisher
Producer – Evan Hatch
Vocals – Hamper McBee (1 to 16)
This album originally released as Prestige/Folklore LP 14008 "Hamper McBee: Cumberland Moonshiner", in 1964
Spring Fed compact disc © under license from Concord Music Group, Inc.
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