Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers - Baby All Night Long video free download

The Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers were a band founded by Clarence Ashley and Gwin Foster, aided with the help of fiddler Clarence Green and sometimes auto-harpist Will Abernathy. This group was formed after the Carolina Tar Heels dwindled to Garley Foster and Dock Walsh in November of 1930. And of course, the original group that recorded under that name was not so much a "band" in the current sense of the word, but a group that was gotten together for the explicit purpose of recording. Generally, Dock and Gwin toured as a duo while Ashley did the medicine show circuit.

For some reason, I was previously under the impression that Byrd Moore was a part of this recording. But I do not believe he is; he worked with Dick Burnett and Leonard Rutherford, as well as Earl Johnson, but not with the Blue Ridge Mountaineers or the Tar Heels.

Anyway, this is a rambunctious rendition of All Night Long, which always struck me as the more comedic side of the song, as opposed to the tragic side which you can hear by Burnett and Rutherford. Both are lovely.

(I spell Foster's name "Gwin" because that is how it is used by Tony Russell; I have seen it as both "Gwen" and "Gwin" and don't pretend to know the proper way.)