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Whoa Mule

by Lee Sexton

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Also includes CD Booklet featuring Lee's autobiography (as told to Rich Kirby and Nina Dryer) with source notes and a PDF of the original Whoa Mule LP (JA051) back cover.
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Shady Grove 01:20
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Fox Chase 01:29
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Rye Whiskey 01:38
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Grey Eagle 01:36
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Dusty Miller 01:58
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John Henry 02:34
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Buck Creek 00:56
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Caney Creek 01:38
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Nubbin Ridge 01:31
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Hog Eyed Man 01:00
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Hey John D 00:46
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about

Lee Sexton (born 1927) is an American Banjo player from Letcher County, Kentucky. He began playing the banjo at the age of eight and is proficient in the two-finger picking and "drop-thumb" (clawhammer) traditional styles of east Kentucky. He also sings. His Whoa Mule album includes recordings from a 1952 home recording with fiddler Fernando Lusk to recordings made in 2001. Four solo songs also appear on Smithsonian Folkways album Mountain Music of Kentucky. In 1999 Kentucky governor Paul Patton presented Lee with the Governor's Award in the Arts. Lee Sexton and his wife Opal still live on Line Fork, about a hundred yards from his birthplace.

JA0080 contains about half of the recordings from JA0051, the previous June Appal Recordings release by the same title, and includes newer material not previously released.

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released January 1, 2001

Recordings for JA0080, Whoa Mule, were recorded and mixed by Doug Dorschug, with help from Martin Newell, Anthony Slone, Mike Slone, Don Mussell, Bill Halcomb, Tom Hansell and Rich Kirby. The release was produced by Rich Kirby and Doug Dorschug. Musicians include Lee Sexton on banjo, Marion Sumner on fiddle, Sonny Houston on guitar, Phil Sexton on bass, Doug Dorschug on guitar, Freddie Campbell on banjo, Al White on mandolin, Bob Asher on bass, and Debbie Sexton on bass.

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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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