The June Appal Recordings, by Uncle Charlie Osborne

The June Appal Recordings

by Uncle Charlie Osborne

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1.	Brown's Dream 02:54	buy track
2.	Ida Red 02:41	buy track
3.	Nancy Ann 02:41	buy track
4.	Joe Bowers 02:12	buy track
5.	All At One Shot 01:27	buy track
6.	Shoot That Turkey Buzzard 02:34	buy track
7.	Little Brown Jug 02:23	buy track
8.	Old Aunt Katy (There's a Bug On Me) 02:04	buy track
9.	Frolic / Callahan's Reel 02:42	buy track
10.	You'll Never Miss Your Mother Until She's Gone 02:14	buy track
11.	Georgia Row 02:35	buy track
12.	Dan Tucker 02:13	buy track
13.	Sugar In the Gourd 02:36	buy track
14.	Sally Goodin 02:38	buy track
15.	Sugar Hill 03:03	buy track
16.	Pap's Old Billy Goat 01:39	buy track
17.	Casey Jones 01:56	buy track
18.	A Schoolhouse Story 00:49	buy track
19.	She'll Be Coming 'Round the Moutain 02:25	buy track
20.	The Cat Came Back 02:11	buy track
21.	Sourwood Mountain 02:09	buy track
22.	Cluck Old Hen 02:32	buy track
23.	There's No Place Like Home For The Married Man 02:11	buy track
24.	Arkansas Traveler 02:16	buy track
25.	It Is Better Farther On 02:23	buy track
26.	Rye Straw 02:44	buy track
27.	Preachers In Hell 00:52	buy track
28.	Sally Ann 02:25	buy track
29.	Old Joe Clark 03:46	buy track
30.	Cluck Old Hen 01:49	buy track
31.	A Hundredth Birthday Story 01:56	buy track

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Charles Nelson Osborne, (December 26, 1890 – May 27, 1992), affectionately known as "Uncle Charlie," was a musician in the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia. He was born in what is now known as Cowan Osborne Hollow, named for his father, in Copper Creek, Virginia. He was regionally famous from the time he was about 15 until his death at age 101 in 1992.

Charlie had a unique style of playing the fiddle with his left hand, on a right-handed fiddle. He and his brother, Emmett Osborne, played on WOPI radio station in Bristol, Tennessee, from the early 1920s until the early 1930s. They were contemporaries of country music founders Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, and occasionally gave advice to Tennessee Ernie Ford on his music. Uncle Charlie played numerous shows at the Carter Family Fold in Scott County, Virginia, a theater showcasing traditional music under the direction of Janette Carter, one of the daughters of the original Carter Family. On one occasion, Johnny Cash was Uncle Charlie's "opening act".

He was a regular performer at Mountain Empire Community College's annual Home Craft Days festivals from 1985 until his death. Other performances included the Brandywine Festival, Appalshop's Seedtime on the Cumberland festival and a campaign rally for Jesse Jackson in Hazard, KY. In 1985, in conjunction with East Tennessee State University, Appalshop's June Appal Recordings recorded Uncle Charlie's first album, Relics And Treasure. The album contained over a dozen traditional mountain songs, including "Ida Red", "Brown's Dream", and "Old Joe Clark". Uncle Charlie recorded two more albums with the label; his final was 1991's One Hundred Years Farther On, which included the powerful and mournful mountain gospel song "Farther On," which Uncle Charlie called "As We Travel Through The Desert". Also featured on the recordings were his son, Johnny C. Osborne, on clawhammer banjo, and Tommy Bledsoe, on guitar and banjo. These recordings were reissued by June Appal Recordings as Uncle Charlie Osborne: The June Appal Recordings.

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released January 1, 2008

Uncle Charlie Osborne's two out-of-print June Appal Recordings "Relics and Treasure" and "100 Years On" were remastered by Allan Maggard of Maggard's Sound in Big Stone Gap, Virginia and re-released on CD in 2008.

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June Appal Recordings Kentucky

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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