Old Time Guitar, by Mark Harris

Old Time Guitar

by Mark Harris

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1.	Grub Springs 02:16	buy track
2.	Brown Button Shoes / Jonesboro 03:33	buy track
3.	Yew Piney Mountain 02:54	buy track
4.	Buck Mountain 02:13	buy track
5.	Grey Eagle 02:27	buy track
6.	Boys Them Buzzards Are Flying 02:37	buy track
7.	My Journey Home 02:22	buy track
8.	Roscoe Parish's Waltz 03:06	buy track
9.	Camp Chase / Big Eyed Rabbit 03:16	buy track
10.	Rocky Road to Jordan 02:54	buy track
11.	Rye Straw 03:02	buy track
12.	High up on Tug 02:27	buy track
13.	Benton's Dream 02:09	buy track
14.	Ducks on the Millpond 02:48	buy track
15.	Lost Girl 02:31	buy track

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Mark Harris’ debut album Old Time Guitar is a bold re-imagining of the guitar’s place in old time music. Moving beyond the chordal backup style of playing that is usually encountered in this context, Mark offers a melodic approach that deftly captures the atmospheric, syncopated grooves of traditional fiddle and banjo tunes. Over fifteen tracks, Harris presents solo guitar versions of a variety of old time tunes, ranging from the momentous to the meditative, from the homey to the haunting. These tunes are drawn from all around Appalachia, the South and the Midwest, using source recordings of legendary old time players like John Morgan Salyer, Nathan Frazier & Frank Patterson, Edden Hammons, Matokie Slaughter, Emmett Lundy, Sid Hemphill, and more. Also included are arrangements of a few tunes composed by modern masters, such as Benton Flippen, Garry Harrison, and Oscar ‘Red’ Wilson.

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released December 11, 2020

Pre-production consultation by Matt Brown
Mixing and mastering by Mat Leffler-Schulman

All tunes traditional, except:
'Jonesboro' composed by Oscar 'Red' Wilson;
'Boys Them Buzzards Are Flying' composed by Garry Harrison;
and
'Benton's Dream' composed by Benton Flippen.

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