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Various Artists / Martins and The Coys, The

Album:	Martins and The Coys, The	Collection:	General
Artist:	Various Artists	Added:	Mar 2000
Label:	Rounder Records

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Album Review

Be Sharp
Reviewed 2024-02-01

This folk music "opera" was produced by Alan Lomax and recorded as a radio program in 1945 in support of WWII.
- Notable actor/singers include Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lily Mae Ledford (of the original Coon Creek Girls), Alan Lomax
- Burl Ives narrates in the manner of his old "Rudolph" TV program.
- The material ranges from silly novelty stuff to some true folk-music gems.
- Tracks 32-37 are bonus tracks, straight songs done outside the opera.

Note: this was previously keyed in with Alan Lomas as the artist. I reentered it as a compilation. (Be Sharp 1 Feb 2024)

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Track Listing

	Artist	Track Name
1.	Pete Seeger and Chorus	The Martins and the Coys
2.	Burl Ives	Introduction (Spoken)
3.	Burl Ives, Will Geer, Pete Seeger	Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase
4.	Burl Ives and Cast	The Martins Meet the Coys (Spoken)
5.	Pete Seeger, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith and Chorus	Run Boys Run
6.	Jimmy Dobson, Geoffrey Bryant, Will Geer	Back to the Cabin
7.	Burl Ives	Black Is The Color of My True Love's Hair
8.	Woody Guthrie	Alec Coy at the Induction Center (Spoken)
9.	Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry and Chorus	You Better Get Ready
10.	Burl Ives and Cast	At the Deer Forks Railway Depot (Spoken)
11.	Woody Guthrie	Nine Hundred Miles
12.	Burl Ives	The Train Departs (Spoken)
13.	Hally Wood With Pete Seeger	On Top of Old Smokey
14.	Cast	An Agricultural Agent Visits the Coys
15.	Lily May Ledford, Pete Seeger, Rosalie Allen, Bella Allen, and Chorus	Deliver the Goods
16.	Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, Geoffrey Bryant	Alec and Ben in the Army Camp (Spoken)
17.	Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry and Chorus	When We All Go Marching in
18.	Cast	The Deer Forks Victory Garden (Spoken)
19.	Alan Lomax, Hally Wood, Pete Seeger	Red Rocking Chair
20.	Cast	Uncle Boone Visits the Coys (Spoken)
21.	Lily May Ledford, Rosalie Allen, Bella Allen, Will Geer	How Many Biscuits Can You Eat?
22.	Geoffrey Bryant and Woody Guthrie	Ben and Alec Call Off the Feud (Spoken)
23.	Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry and Chorus	All You Fascists Bound to Lose
24.	Geoffrey Bryant, Helen Claire	Ben and Sary Meet Again (Spoken)
25.	Burl Ives, Hally Wood	The Turtledove
26.	Geoffrey Bryant, Helen Claire	Ben Proposes to Sary (Spoken)
27.	Lily May Ledford, Rosalie Allen, Bella Allen, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith and Chorus	Smokey Mountain Gals
28.	Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, Woody Guthrie	Dance All Night With a Bottle in Your Hand
29.	Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Chorus	Round and Round Hitler's Grave
30.	Burl Ives	Closing (Spoken)
31.	Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry and Chorus	The New Martins and Coys
32.	Ted Weems and His Orchestra	The Martins and the Coys
33.	The Unions Boys With Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax, Burl Ives	The New Martins and Coys
34.	Lily May Ledford	East Virginia Blues
35.	Lily May Ledford, Pete Seeger	Sugar Babe
36.	Lily May Ledford With Rosalie Allen and Bella Allen	Gypsy Davy
37.	Lily May Ledford With Rosalie Allen and Bella Allen	The Girls in This Neighborhood