The Piedmont String Sawyers
Sawing Through a Few Good
Pieces
Before Radio and television, in
the time when entertainment was very limited, this music played a major role in
the lives of people all up and down the Appalachian Mountains and the Piemont.
This old-time music continues to be a social music, mostly played at home with
good friends, but also played for local dances and gatherings. It has that
old-time rhythm that makes you want to move your feet. Here are some of the same
tunes play by generations handed down through the years. The musician are
Marshall Goers, Joshua Johnson, Nancy Hamilton and Briggs Hamilton
The tunes are: Granny Went to Meeting with Her Old Shoes On, Liberty, Boll
Weevil, Black Bottom Strutt, Pumpkintown Stomp, My Gal's a Corker, Jenny Lend
Polka, Mississippi Sawyer, Take this Hammer, Susanana Gal, Bonaparte Crossing
the Rhine, Molly put the Kettle On, Rock the Cradle Joe, Cold Frosty Morn, Girl
I Left Behind Me, Grandfather's Clock, Turkey in the Straw, Wind that Shakes the
Barley, Clarence and Geneview Waltz.
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