The Good Old-Fashioned Way

Hamper McBee

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‘The Good Old-Fashioned Way’ is the first Hamper McBee release in over thirty years.

“I just like them old songs better.”

The late Hamper McBee was a moonshiner, carnival barker, and ballad singer of legendary proportions. First “discovered” and recorded by folklorist and performer Guy Carawan in 1964, Hamper’s prodigious talent and personality won him admirers not only in his native Smoky Mountains but throughout the folk music world, where his wholly unique approach to old-time ballads and lyric songs struck like revelations. He drew from both the oral tradition and from records — he especially loved Bradley Kincaid, Vernon Dalhart, and, surprisingly, Burl Ives — to create a repertoire entirely his own, and that he sung in a warm, powerful voice seasoned by prodigious quantities of cigarettes, booze, and joie de vivre.

Recorded by renowned country music scholar Charles K. Wolfe and filmmaker Sol Korine at Hamper’s home in Monteagle, Tennessee, in 1977, ‘The Good Old-Fashioned Way’ compiles the best of McBee’s traditional ballads, affecting original compositions, and outlandish, sidesplitting stories of life on the carnival circuit, at the moonshine still, in the back of Sheriff Bill Malone’s patrol car, and as Hamper McBee. You’ve never met anyone like him before. You’ll be glad you did.

This expansion features Charles K. Wolfe’s original liner notes. ‘The Good Old-Fashioned Way’ contains twelve previously unreleased tracks, including a number of especially hilarious and vulgar items unsuitable for radio play — title track among them.

‘The Good Old-Fashioned Way’ reissue is co-produced by Sol Korine’s filmmaker son, Harmony Korine, and Nathan Salsburg of Twos & Fews.

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Track Listings

Black Jack Davy
Wreck Of The Number 9
Jasper Jail
Talk On Bill Malone
Billy Richardson’s Last Ride
Streets Of Laredo
Talk On Old-time Songs
Young Roger The Miller
Talk On Carnival Barking
Cabbage Head (Three Nights Drunk)
Three Nights Drunk (The “Limey Version”)
John Hardy
Talk On Hot Rod Hogan
Sally Make Water
Jack Of Diamonds
Shady Grove
Talk On Carnival & Childhood Recollections
The Little Shirt My Mama Made For Me
Talk On Drinking Still Mash
100 Gallons
Wauhatchie Yards
Talk On Racing The Southern
Knoxville Girl
The Devil And The Farmer’s Wife
Talk On Religion & Drinking On Sunday
Methodist Pie
The Good Old-fashioned Way
Wearisome Farmer
Dark As A Dungeon

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