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 alt version 3:32
- 5 Foggy Mountain Top alt version 3:10
- 6 Fortunes 4:15
- 7 High on a Mountain alt version 2:38
- 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 alt version 3:28
- 13 Undone in Sorrow Source Recording 3:20
- 14 I Believe in the Old Time Way alt version 2:35
- 15 Nine Pound Hammer alt version 2:55
- 16 I Am the Man Thomas alt version 3:31
- 17 I've Endured - 2 2:40
- 18 Ranger's Command 3:00
- 19 I Saw the Light alt version 4:57
