Bascom Lunsford Lamar - Smoky Mountain Ballads AEC Music ' which he wrote in

' which he wrote in 1802 to record his growing deafness

Every song comes from it's own background

Giacomo Voli convinces as always as an exorbitantly great singer with technical finesse

Leonardo García Alarcón does so here in a manner at once respectful

Bascom Lunsford Lamar - Smoky Mountain Ballads AEC Music ' which he wrote inCalled "The Minstrel of the Appalachians," banjo player Bascom Lamar Lunsford performs a cross section of his sizeable repertoire, which contains at least three hundred songs. These songs include English ballads, topical songs, and 19th century popular songs incorporated into the North Carolina mountain tradition.