Old Time Mountain Music & Other Songs
Never Met a Stranger (Jeremy Drummond & David Poolman)

A vinyl record composed of environmental soundscapes, field recordings, sound collages, and re-interpretations of tradition music as produced and documented by Never Met a Stranger throughout central Appalachia. Composed, recorded, and mixed by Jeremy Drummond and David Poolman. Pressing of 500.

Side One:
Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone
Freight Train
Roll on Buddy
Dark Holler
Iduema
He is Coming to Us Dead
Down On a Lonesome Heavy-Hearted Hog

Side Two:
Flying Clouds
My Savior’s Precious Blood
Hangman’s Reel
Beulah Land
Betty
Galax
If The River Was Whisky

​Never Met A Stranger
Old Time Mountain Music & Other Songs
Never Met A Stranger DL/LP
 
Never Met A Stranger's Jeremy Drummond and David Poolman are multimedia artists whose works span drawing, printmaking, photography and film. For Old Time Mountain Music & Other Songs, the duo have gathered sonic vignettes embodying the living history of Appalachian folk music. "Galax" takes us on a quick dip in and out of a barn dance. "Flying Clouds" traces a familiar form with acoustic guitar before plunging the microphone underwater. "Down On A Lonesome-Heavy Hearted Hog" plays like a dusty 45 with a noisy skipping groove, making for a somewhat harrowing meta-listening experience on vinyl. Traditional songs are given disparate treatments. "lduema" is sung by a rough-edged vocal ensemble, while "Beulah Land/Betty" is hammered out by a power trio. Released in an edition of 500 with photographs and other archival materials, Old Time Mountain Music is an artefact and object that collaborates with the past in order to document it for the future.