Clarence Ashley

The Cuckoo

Here is another look at Appalachian music history. This is a clip from a video that can still be purchased from County Sales. I have captured this clip from a VHS tape by the name of  Legends of Old Time Music. It is about a 4.5 meg file so give it a minute or so to upload to your system. I really recommend this tape to anybody who has even a slight interest in "Old Time" music. This song The Cuckoo has to rank up in the top 10 of my favorite "Old Time" tunes. This Legends video has clips of many more of the great old time musicians from Appalachia. For those of you that would like to get a look at this clip in a larger format can save the file and play it directly in Windows Media Player at 200% or even fill the screen. It really doesn't look to bad even when enlarged. My Studio8 software seems to be doing a pretty decent job of converting MPEG2 to a highly compressed WMV format.

If you are interested in this and more videos of old time musicians check out what County Sales may have. Here is a link to their site for this video. It show that it is available on DVD. Here is the link to Legends of Old Time Music at County Sales. I have nothing to gain from County Sales and have no affiliation with them. I only provide links to places like them for your convenience.