Appalachian Swing (World Pacific Records ST 1821, 1964) is a studio album from the Kentucky Colonels, the Los Angeles-based traditional bluegrass ensemble that brought the style to the West Coast folk audience. Clarence White plays lead guitar; Roland White plays mandolin; Roger Bush holds the string bass; Billy Ray Latham plays banjo; Bobby Slone plays guitar; and Barney Carter plays fiddle. The album is the primary document of Clarence White's revolutionary flatpicking technique in its most fully realized ensemble context — the first and only studio album from this lineup — combining traditional Appalachian material with the precision and drive the Colonels had developed through years of California performing. White's guitar work, already unlike anything else in the genre, would go on to influence the entire subsequent history of acoustic flatpicking.
Tracklist
- 1 Clinch Mountain Backstep alt version 3:27
- 2 Nine Pound Hammer alt version 2:55
- 3 Listen to the mockingbird
- 4 Wild Bill Jones alt version 3:23
- 5 Billy in the Low Ground alt version 2:44
- 6 Lee Highway
- 7 I Am a Pilgrim alt version 2:32
- 8 Prisoner’s Song (Instrumental) alt version
- 9 Sally Goodin alt version 3:19
- 10 Faded Love alt version 2:57
- 11 John Henry alt version 3:12
- 12 Flat Fork