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<p>New page: &#039;&#039;&#039;Walt Davis and Jay C McCool:&#039;&#039;&#039; Sharp had visited the area around the town of Black Mountain, just outside Asheville in 1916 and I was interested to see what sort of music could be foun...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Walt Davis and Jay C McCool:&#039;&#039;&#039; Sharp had visited the area around the town of Black Mountain, just outside Asheville in 1916 and I was interested to see what sort of music could be found there.&amp;nbsp; In fact, most of the older musicians had been involved in making records in the 1930s and ‘40s and had forsaken the ballads and ‘love-songs’ in favour of a more modern ‘old-timey’ type of music.&amp;nbsp; Walt Davis had made records for ARC in 1931 and during the 1940s and 50s was an active radio performer, often in company with his neighbour Jay C McCool.&amp;nbsp; (There is a splendid 1949 photograph of them both in the Winter, 1971, issue of the John Edward’s Memorial Foundation Quarterly).<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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