Red Wing, by I.D. Stamper

I.D. Stamper and John McCutcheon perform "Ground Hog." From the 1976 Appalshop film "Sourwood Mountain Dulcimers."

Red Wing

by I.D. Stamper

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In this 28-minute documentary by Gene DuBey, I.D. Stamper and a young John McCutcheon play together, swap tunes, discuss musical traditions and demonstrate the difference between hammered and mountain style dulcimer.

Originally released by Appalshop in 1976. In 2007 "Sourwood Mountain Dulcimers" was preserved from the original 16mm color negative master, restoring vibrant, first-generation beauty to this early Appalshop film.

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1.	Darlin' Corey 04:22	buy track
2.	Ground Hog 01:36 video	buy track
3.	Married Life Blues 01:08	buy track
4.	Rattlesnake Bill 02:02	buy track
5.	Long John 01:14	buy track
6.	Marching Thru Georgia 01:18	buy track
7.	Jack & Joe 03:12	buy track
8.	Going Round This World 02:13	buy track
9.	Red Wing 01:40	buy track
10.	Down South Blues 02:25	buy track
11.	Barbry Ellen 00:47	buy track
12.	John Henry 01:22	buy track
13.	900 Miles 02:59	buy track
14.	Sourwood Mountain 02:04	buy track
15.	Pretty Polly 04:35	buy track
16.	I Can't Change It 02:24	buy track
17.	Meet Me Tonight 00:55	buy track

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"What I hear in I.D.'s music is everything that is good about old time music." - John McCutcheon, liner notes.

"Stamper blended white dance music and black blues offering the only blues dulcimer most people have ever heard. His rarely-heard versions of “Darlin’ Corey,” “Lost John,” and “Little Pink” act as a musical roadmap to a time and a life that most people can contact only in books." - Last.fm

"Red Wing" is the sole album released by I.D. Stamper.

Issac "I.D." Stamper was born in Arkansas, but raised in Letcher County, Kentucky where he lived until his death in 1986. He worked nearly forty years in the mines until he left the “bad air” for a safer and better paying job as a maintenance man in a Louisville children’s hospital. The harmonica was I.D.’s first instrument, followed quickly by the banjo, guitar and fiddle. I.D. and his brothers had a band that played at many of the local dances. It was his contact with his mother’s relative, the legendary Uncle Ed Thomas, the roving dulcimer builder and player, that struck Ike’s fancy to the instrument that was to become his hallmark. It wasn’t until the 1940s that I.D. finally put together his first dulcimer – from a butternut log his father brought in for firewood. He fashioned his first instrument after his recollection of Uncle Ed’s design, but, by his own admission, “improved on it.” I.D. Stamper constructed over 500 instruments during his lifetime, with buyers from California to England. Following a brief career (in his retirement) of performing extensively at local festivals, colleges, and folklife events at national parks, Parkinson’s disease all but ended his ability to play.

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released January 1, 1977

Recordings were made for JA010, Red Wing, in 1977 as an Appalseed Field Recording Project for June Appal Recordings. It was recorded by John McCutcheon, Jack Wright and John Harrod with Nagra IV and Stellavox recorders using Beyer Dynamic and Neumann microphones.

Red Wing was mixed and edited by John McCutcheon and Jack Wright.

Musicians included I.D. Stamper on dulcimers, French harp, banjo and vocals, and John McCutcheon on fiddle, fretless banjo, guitar and dulcimers.

Album design by Jonathan Greene

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Founded in 1974 in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, June Appal Recordings is the non-profit record label of Appalshop. It was established to record and distribute the music and stories of accomplished central Appalachian artists.

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