From Granmaw and me

"Should your knowledge on the history of American folk music be a little rusty, Hedy West, who passed in 2005, aged 67, was one of the leading lights of traditional folk music ... She withdrew from the spotlight in later years and eventually stopped sing completely when she was struck down with cancer; however, prior to her death she had put together this until now unreleased album of songs learned from her grandmother, Lillie Mulkie West, a collection of songs gathered by the family over the years. Indeed, it was Lillie, born in 1888 in Gilmer County, herself who selected the material and who serves as the album's narrator ...".

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