MP3 Van Colbert - Tales of the Hillbilly Thuglife
A fine old-time singer and banjo picker from the Missouri Ozarks performing traditional mountain songs about murder, mayhem, and hard-case perpetrators.
20 MP3 Songs in this album (65:47) !
Related styles: Folk: Appalachian Folk, Country: Outlaw Country, Mood: Brooding
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"The Southern mountains, the Appalachians and the Ozarks, are home to many kinds of traditional music: Old World ballads, fiddle and banjo tunes, and all manner of religious songs. Van Colbert, a fine old-time singer and banjo picker from the Missouri Ozarks, has a special interest in another category of mountain songs: ballads of murder, mayhem, and hard-case perpetrators, and delivers them here with authority and authenticity. He doesn''t shy away from loaded terms like "hillbilly" and "thug-life" to describe them; wasn''t Jesse James'' six-shooter loaded as well? For better or worse, these songs are American to the core, and nobody can interpret them better than Van." -- Art Rosenbaum: banjo player, artist, folklorist.