Finley J. Brewer, Sr. from Roan Mountain, TN, by Pap Brewer with Gary Brewer and the Kentucky Ramblers

Finley J. Brewer, Sr. from Roan Mountain, TN

by Pap Brewer with Gary Brewer and the Kentucky Ramblers

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1.	Intro/Old Reuben 04:13	buy track
2.	Walking in the Parlor 02:39	buy track
3.	Carter Family Story 00:57	buy track
4.	Wildwood Flower 01:22	buy track
5.	Ida Red 02:30	buy track
6.	Black-Eyed Susie 02:06	buy track
7.	Get Along Cindy 02:06	buy track
8.	Whoa Mule 02:06	buy track
9.	Poor Ellen Smith 04:04	buy track
10.	Alabama Girls 02:20	buy track
11.	Darling Corey 03:52	buy track
12.	Cluck Old Hen 01:57	buy track
13.	Uncle John Birchfield Story 01:24	buy track
14.	Sourwood Mountain 02:10	buy track
15.	Ground Hog 01:55	buy track
16.	Skip To My Lou 00:56	buy track
17.	John Henry 02:42	buy track
18.	Shortenin' Bread 01:35	buy track
19.	Unseen Eye Watching You 01:14	buy track
20.	Brown's Dream 01:12	buy track
21.	Willow Garden 01:44	buy track
22.	Bonnie Blue Eyes 02:31	buy track
23.	Gold Rush 01:41	buy track
24.	Old Unlucky Devil 02:15	buy track
25.	Arkansas Traveler 01:50	buy track
26.	Old Joe Clark 01:48	buy track
27.	Lost Indian 01:27	buy track
28.	Pap Sign Off 00:18	buy track
29.	Cumberland Gap 01:36	buy track

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Finley Jerome "Pap" Brewer, Sr. was born December 27, 1906 in the Justis Siding community located on the Watauga River in Watauga County, NC. Pap's father, James Sidney Brewer, played clawhammer style banjo, but Pap, like other Roan Mountain musicians of his generation--such as Ivan Powell and Elick & Creed Birchfield--played a more modern two-finger index lead style with drop thumb rolls and pinches. Pap played with Henry "Red" Shell and his three daughters on WOPI in Bristol, Tennessee on several occasions, and got to play with the Carter Family when they performed in Roan Mountain. In the 1940s Pap played with his daughters Zelma, Marjorie and Janvea on WJHL's Barrel of Fun radio program at the Bonnie Kate Theatre in Elizabethton, TN. In the 1950s he performed with the Roan Mountain Gospel Players on WBEJ in Elizbethton, and the group continued playing through the 1970s at local barn dances. Pap and his daughter Nancy also played at the Galax Fiddlers Contests. He died in an automobile accident on September 4, 1993 at the age of 86. His son Finley J. Brewer Jr. and grandson Gary Brewer carry on Pap's musical legacy.

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released January 1, 1993

Recordings for JA0071 were made by Gary Brewer and Caroly H. Sturgill at Roan Mountain, TN in June, 1993; by Doug Dorshug at the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, VA in August, 1993 and at Appalshop's annual Seedtime On The Cumberland Music Festival in Whitesburg, KY in June, 1993; and by Robert Jeffery at Pap's home and around the campfire in Roan Mountain, TN in June and July, 1981. The release was produced by Carolyn H. Sturgill and Gary Brewer, and mastered by David Glasser of Airshow in Springfield, VA. Musicians included Pap on banjo, fiddle and harp; Gary "Stretch" Brewer on guitar and banjo; The Kentucky Ramblers (Ronnie Stewart on fiddle, Dale "Punch" Taylor on bass, Bill Colwell on mandolin), Finley "Finnie" J. Brewer, Jr. on guitar; Nancy Brewer Johnson on guitar; Dean Johnson on bass; Jerry Johnson on banjo; Shelby Robinson on guitar; Rita Sluder on Guitar

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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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