Bowling Green (album)

Bowling Green
Studio album by
Kossoy Sisters
Released1956 (1956)
RecordedAugust 1956
GenreFolk
Length40:06
LabelTradition Records
Kossoy Sisters chronology
Bowling Green
(1956) 		Hop on Pretty Girls
(2002)
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AllMusic[1]

Bowling Green and Other Folk Songs From the Southern Mountains is a 1956 album by the Kossoy Sisters, containing their renditions of Appalachian folk songs. The sisters sing in tight close harmony, with additional instrumental accompaniment by Erik Darling.[2] Originally released on Tradition Records, the album was re-released on CD by Rykodisc in 1996.[2]

The album's third track, "I'll Fly Away," was featured in the Coen Brothers' 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?,[3] although the movie's Grammy-winning soundtrack album substituted a different rendition of the song.[2] The Kossoys' version of the Carter Family's "Single Girl, Married Girl" from this album is heard in the 2014 film Obvious Child.[4]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Bowling Green"2:13
2."I Never Will Marry"2:48
3."I'll Fly Away"2:32
4."The Darby Ram"2:54
5."In the Pines"3:19
6."The Banks of the Ohio"3:20
7."The Wagoner's Lad"3:40
8."Poor Ellen Smith"2:28
9."Single Girl"2:16
10."What Will We Do with the Baby-O?"1:47
11."Down in a Willow Garden"2:34
12."Little Birdie"2:56
13."Willie Moore"3:06
14."Engine 143"4:17
Total length:40:06

Personnel

  • Irene Kossoy: vocals (low harmony), guitar
  • Ellen Kossoy: vocals (high harmony), banjo
  • Erik Darling: guitar, banjo[5]

References

  1. ^ Ruhlmann, William, Bowling Green, Allmusic, retrieved March 24, 2024
  2. ^ a b c Jon Johnson (January 2003). "O Kossoy Sisters, Where Art Thou Been?". Country Standard Time. Archived from the original on April 23, 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
  3. ^ "The Kossoy Sisters - Biography & History". AllMusic. Archived from the original on January 30, 2014. Retrieved September 6, 2017.
  4. ^ Trooper. "The Obvious Child Soundtrack List". SoundtrackMania. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
  5. ^ Ruhlmann, William, Bowling Green, Allmusic, retrieved March 24, 2024


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