Harry West

As half from the duo of Harry & Jeanie Western, this artist began recording some albums of traditional folk music through the ’50s. Frequently energized by Harry West’s effective banjo playing, they were the types of performances that could have been referred to as folk revival had been they the task of youngsters from your Northeast. And experienced some of these younger performers experienced the vicinity, they could already have bought their devices from Harry and Jeanie in the Wests’ nifty mom-and-pop music shop in fantastic downtown Statesville, NC. Standing up before microphones, instead of offering them, the couple’s study of Appalachian music included a particular level of gospel aswell as the broader spectral range of materials represented on the volume such as for example 1963’s Songs from the Southland, originally released by Smithsonian Folkways. The grade of instrumental flourishes apart, the Western duo could very well be liked greatest when providing a sentimental like ballad. Harry Western plays acoustic guitar and banjo aswell as performing some beautiful solid wood carving, a bit of which was shown for the cover of Tom Adler’s Lovely Nell album.