add to cart
add to wantlist
email a friend
 
PRICE:
$13.50
NOT IN STOCK
01. NIMROD WORKMAN - Gabriel's Trumpet
02. NIMROD WORKMAN - Lord Daniel
03. NIMROD WORKMAN - Talk on Uncle Peter McNeely and singing
04. NIMROD WORKMAN - Shady Grove
05. NIMROD WORKMAN - In the Spring of '65
06. NIMROD WORKMAN - I Am Your Man, Thomas
07. NIMROD WORKMAN - Good Morning
08. NIMROD WORKMAN - Talk on Dock Boggs / Wild Bill Jones
09. NIMROD WORKMAN - Ida Red
10. NIMROD WORKMAN - Rock the Cradle Alone
11. NIMROD WORKMAN - Coal Black Mining Blues
12. NIMROD WORKMAN - Casey Jones
13. NIMROD WORKMAN - Hewed Out of the Mountain
14. NIMROD WORKMAN - 42 Years
15. NIMROD WORKMAN - Took His Old Cow
16. NIMROD WORKMAN - Bell Cow
17. NIMROD WORKMAN - Oh Death
18. NIMROD WORKMAN - Willow Garden
19. NIMROD WORKMAN - Sourwood Mountain
20. NIMROD WORKMAN - Jack Straw Straddle
21. NIMROD WORKMAN - Talk on grandfather Nimrod / War Whoops
22. NIMROD WORKMAN - My Horses Ain't Hungry
23. NIMROD WORKMAN - Great Big Hand of God
24. NIMROD WORKMAN - Barbara Allen
25. NIMROD WORKMAN - It's Real (That Pentecostal Blessing)
26. NIMROD WORKMAN - Little David, Play On Your Harp
27. NIMROD WORKMAN - Farewell
ARTIST
TITLE
I Want To Go Where Things Are Beautiful
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
DC 379CD DC 379CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/17/2008

"Nimrod Workman (born Martin County, Kentucky, 1895) was a coal miner, a union activist, and a gifted singer. After a slipped disc and black lung forced his retirement from the mines of Mingo County, West Virginia, where he had worked for 42 years, he became a sought-after performer and raconteur. Loquacious and mischievous, with the energy and intensity of a man half his age, he appeared on records, in films (Harlan County U.S.A. and Coal Miner's Daughter), across the folk festival circuit, and as a guest on The Tonight Show. In 1982, folklorist and musician Mike Seeger visited Nimrod at his home in Mascot, Tennessee, and with the support of an NEA Folk Arts grant, made nearly 18 hours of recordings of Workman's songs and stories. While those sessions provided the most extensive coverage of Nimrod's talent ever made, they went unissued. Come the late 1980s, Nimrod was in too poor of health to keep up his touring schedule, and he died at the age of 99 in 1994. I Want To Go Where Things Are Beautiful draws on Seeger's 1982 recordings of Nimrod Workman and gives the man his first LP release in 30 years, as well as his first-ever solo CD release. It showcases Workman's huge repertoire of songs, humorous and melancholy, sacred and sinful; it ranges from the old British ballads of 'Barbara Allen' and 'Lord Daniel' to Nimrod's own topical material, inspired by his experience as a miner and a card-carrying member of the UMWA. It's a long overdue portrait of a unique performer much loved and revered, but too often overlooked."