Lost Boy, released in 1996 on Rounder, is Bruce Molsky's first Rounder release and the record that broke him out nationally as an old-time fiddler. Molsky, a Bronx-born engineer who had spent years playing Mount Airy fiddlers' conventions on the side before old-time music became his full-time work, self-produced the spare, archival-feeling set. He plays fiddle, banjo, guitar, and sings, with Dirk Powell on fretless banjo, banjo, and guitar, Audrey Molsky on guitar, and Carla Gover on vocals. The repertoire is Appalachian tunes and ballads in unaccompanied or duo settings, lean enough to feel like a Library of Congress field recording. Lost Boy established the template Molsky has worked variations on ever since.
Tracklist
- 1 Wolves A-Howling 3:32
- 2 Sally Cooper 2:39
- 3 Wild Bill Jones alt version 3:00
- 4 Bill Brown 2:21
- 5 Lost Boy 2:53
- 6 Sail Away Ladies alt version 3:04
- 7 Fortune 2:31
- 8 Salt Creek alt version 3:48
- 9 Yellow Barber 2:13
- 10 Buck Hoard 2:29
- 11 Fox Hunt 2:17
- 12 Eighth of January alt version 2:37
- 13 The Cuban Two-Step Rag 2:26
- 14 The Drunkard's Hiccups 3:35
- 15 Buffalo Girls 2:10
- 16 Masanga Nija 3:06
- 17 The Blackest Crow Source Recording 4:21
- 18 Indian Squaw 2:31
- 19 Arkansas Traveler alt version 3:04
- 20 Brushy Fork of John’s Creek alt version 2:59
