Buster Carter & Preston Young

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Buster Carter & Preston Young are mostly remembered for "A Lazy Farmer Boy," their version of “The Young Man Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn”, that was included on The Anthology of American Folk Music, as for being the first group to record the bluegrass classic “I’ll roll in my sweet baby’s arms”. Buster Carter and Preston Young were part of an ensemble of old-time musicians that came from the North Carolina region, the most famous being Charley Poole, who recorded at the end of the 1920′s and beginning of the 1930′s. Preston Young is one of a group of Depression-era musicians who, although able to make recordings, benefited very little financially from them and wound up much less well-known than some of the songs they recorded, such as in Young's case "Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms." Young learned music from his banjo-picking father, and as a youngster used his whittling knife to fashion crude imitations of the instrument. As a teenager he learned autoharp from an uncle, Walter Spencer, then took up guitar in time to have an influential meeting with old-time legend Charlie Poole. It was Poole who suggested Young take up the banjo again. Following these instructions, Young started up his own band with banjoist Buster Carter and fiddler Posey Rorer. In July of 1931 they traveled up to New York City where they cut ten different sides for Columbia, some of which were never released. As was typically the case in this type of music, they tried to re-record many of the same numbers a f

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Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1A: Ballads

Anthology of American Folk Music

A Lazy Farmer Boy

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Anthology of American Folk Music (1-A)

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Anthology of American Folk Music Volume 1 Disc 1 Ballads

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Anthology Of American Folk Music, Volume 1: Ballads

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It Won't Hurt No More

Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 1: Ballads

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Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 1: Ballads (Disc 1)

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Roots N' Blues: The Retrospective, 1925-1950 (disc 2)

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Anthology of American Folk Music Volume 1 Ballads (CD 1)

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Anthology of American Folk Music (Harry Smith ed.), Volume 1: Ballads (disc A)

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