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<p>New page: &#039;&#039;&#039;Ethel Birchfield:&#039;&#039;&#039; and her family lived on a farm at the top of Roan Mountain in Tennessee, just a few miles from the home of John Hobson.  (In fact, they were related to John an...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Ethel Birchfield:&#039;&#039;&#039; and her family lived on a farm at the top of Roan Mountain in Tennessee, just a few miles from the home of John Hobson.&amp;nbsp; (In fact, they were related to John and his family).&amp;nbsp; The Birchfields had come to notice with their band ‘The Roan Mountain Hilltoppers’, which began appearing at Festivals in the 1970’s.&amp;nbsp; However, I was also told of Ethel’s storytelling and so I visited her in the hope of getting a few of her tales down on tape.&amp;nbsp; Many of the Hilltoppers’ recordings have recently been reissued on the CD &#039;&#039;Down Home&#039;&#039; (Roan-001).<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;Part of the booklet notes, written by Mike Yates, to the Musical Traditions Records CDs Far in the Mountains (MTCD321-4)&#039;&#039;</div>

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