Rising Sun Melodies captures Ola Belle Reed in the material that most fully expresses her unique position between the old-time string band tradition and the mid-twentieth-century folk revival. Reed's recordings introduced a generation of listeners to mountain music as practiced by someone who had grown up with it as a living community tradition, not a museum piece. 'Undone in Sorrow' exemplifies the album's emotional character — Reed's singing carried the weight of genuine experience. Her banjo playing, in the older clawhammer and three-finger styles predating the Scruggs revolution, connected directly to the nineteenth-century musical world that bluegrass would later formalize into a commercial genre.
Tracklist
- 1 I've Endured - 1 2:52
- 2 Ola Belle's Blues 2:22
- 3 Springtime of Life 4:23
- 4 Bonaparte's Retreat 2:49
- 5 Foggy Mountain Top 2:32
- 6 Fortunes 4:15
- 7 High on the Mountain 3:07
- 8 Sweet Evalina 2:46
- 9 Sing Me a Song 4:32
- 10 Tear Down the Fences 3:38
- 11 My Epitaph 3:16
- 12 Look Down That Lonesome Road 2:44
- 13 Undone in Sorrow 3:20
- 14 I Believe in the Old Time Way 3:00
- 15 Nine Pound Hammer 3:26
- 16 I Am the Man, Thomas 3:31
- 17 I've Endured - 2 2:40
- 18 Ranger's Command 3:00
- 19 I Saw the Light 4:57