HEDY WEST Rare Appalachian Music Vinyl LP HEAR IT

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HEDY WEST Rare Appalachian Music Vinyl LP HEAR IT

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HEDY WEST: accompanying herself on the 5 string banjo

Vanguard VRS - 9124

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Condition: Cover is a strong VG+ with only real flaw being a small hole through bottom left corner and small tear around it, see picture. Also a partial ringwear on back cover. No writing, spine print clearly legible. Record is VG++ with a few light surface marks about. Plays clean with minimal surface noise, sample above is indicative overall of the sound quality which is very clean. A scarce record to come by this late great Appalachian style singer.

Side One:

1. Drowsy Sleeper
2. Cotton Mill Girls
3. Erin's Green Shore
4. Shady Grove
5. Single Girl
6. Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
7. 500 Miles

Side Two:

1. The Brown Girl
2. Letter From Down the Road
3. Little Willie
4. Sweet Jane
5. Miner's Farewell (Poor Hardworking Miners)
6. Fragments
7. Fare Thee Well

Hedy West (April 6, 1938 - July 3, 2005) was an American folksinger and songwriter.

She was of the same generation as Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and other household-name "Sixties folkies". Musically she was the equal of any of her peers. Her stylistic range was far narrower, but arguably far deeper. Born Hedwig Grace West in the mountains of northern Georgia, she had a darkly authentic folk tradition in her blood.

Early life:
Her father, Don West, was a coal mine labor organizer in the 1930s; his bitter experiences included seeing a close friend machine-gunned on the street by company goons in the presence of a young daughter. Later, he operated the Appalachian South Folklife Center in Pipestem, West Virginia. Many of Hedy's songs, including the raw materials for "500 Miles", came from her maternal grandparents, whose musical roots reached back to their ancestral villages in the British Isles.

Her family's politics were also a life-long influence. Her liner notes for 1967's "Old Times and Hard Times", written from self-imposed exile in London, are an eloquent personal statement on the corrosive effect of the Vietnam War, with the prescient insight, "We'll be controlled by manipulated fear". (See Folk-Legacy Records.) While living in Stony Brook, New York, in the late 1970s, she donated her time and talents in unforgettable benefit concerts for unfashionable causes - as did with her fellow Appalachian-on-Long-Island, Jean Ritchie.

Her songs were rarely if ever overt, topical protests. But her working-class mountain roots were in her voice and ran through everything she sang, giving life and meaning to her laments for beaten-down factory girls and knocked-up servant girls.

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