High Atmosphere
title: "High Atmosphere" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["old-time-music", "works-about-appalachia", "folk-albums-by-american-artists", "1975-compilation-albums", "folk-compilation-albums"] topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Atmosphere" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | High Atmosphere |
| type | Compilation |
| cover | HighAtmosphereCover.jpg |
| released | 1975 |
| recorded | 1965 |
| genre | Old-time music |
| label | Rounder |
| producer | John Cohen, Mark Wilson |
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| name = High Atmosphere | type = Compilation | artist = | cover = HighAtmosphereCover.jpg | alt = | released = 1975 | recorded = 1965 | venue = | studio = | genre = Old-time music | length = | label = Rounder | producer = John Cohen, Mark Wilson | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = High Atmosphere: Ballads and Banjo Tunes from Virginia and North Carolina is a 1975 compilation album released by Rounder Records. The album is composed of Appalachian folk music recordings gathered by musicologist John Cohen in North Carolina and Virginia in 1965.
The album was originally released in 1975. In 1995, Rounder re-released the album with an additional twenty minutes of bonus tracks, and omission of the track 'Old Jimmy Sutton' played by Estil C. Ball & Wade Reedy from the original vinyl.
Indiana University Press' The Journal of Folklore Research has asserted that a Lloyd Chandler song on the album, "A Conversation With Death" was an early form of "O Death"—a song which Ralph Stanley won a Grammy Award for, featured on the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack.
Burgin Mathews of Allmusic says the album is "one of the finest compilations of old-time field recordings available" and "should be of equal interest to academics, musicians, and the merely curious".
The alternative country group Uncle Tupelo's 1992 album March 16–20, 1992 includes three covers of songs from High Atmosphere. Jeff Tweedy is the vocalist on all of these cover versions.
Track listing (1995 release)
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| Song | Artist |
|---|---|
| "Remember and Do Pray for Me" | |
| "The Silk Merchant's Daughter" | |
| "Rambling Hobo" | |
| "Apple, Blossom" | |
| "Pretty Crowling Chicken" | |
| "Forkey Deer" | |
| "Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down" | |
| "Cumberland Gap" | |
| "Rolling Mills Are Burning Down" | |
| "Half Shaved" | |
| "Shady Grove" | |
| "Old Joe Clark" | |
| "Nitches Over the Hill" | |
| "Twin Sisters" | |
| "Fortune" | |
| "Little Satchel" | |
| "Barker's Creek" | |
| "Young Emily" | |
| "Early, Early in the Spring" | |
| "Warfare" | |
| "Pretty Polly" | |
| "The Fox" | |
| "A Conversation with Death" | |
| "I Wish My Baby Was Born" | |
| "The Carolina Lady" | |
| "The Scotland Man" | |
| "Alabama Girls" | |
| "No Place Like Home" | |
| "June Apple" | |
| "Frankie Baker" | |
| "Jennie Jenkins" | |
| "Little Sadie" | |
| "Cumberland Gap" | |
| :: |
References
- [{{AllMusic
- http://www.discogs.com/Various-High-Atmosphere/release/3769167 and the actual LP for confirmation
- Mathews, Burgin. "allmusic ((( High Atmosphere > Overview )))". allmusic.
- Smith, Hazel. (April 25, 2005). "HOT DISH: The Preacher and the Song". Country Music Television.
- (March 11, 2002). "Ralph Stanley brings his Grammy-winning bluegrass to the Jubilee stage". KET.org.
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