"She is one of a select band of performers who still breathe life into traditional ballads."
Vic Smith, Folk Roots

"Sara Grey has quietly and powerfully taken over the mantle of premier interpreter of American traditional music."
Tor Jonassen, WRDV

Highlights of the recording include "A Tale Of The Airly Days," a poem by Indiana folk poet James Whitcombe Riley, set to music by Carl Jones; "The Pinery Boys," a kaleidoscopic account of loggers' daily lives, collected in Wisconsin in 1941; "The Cranberry Song," another work-related piece; an unaccompanied version of "William Hall," a broken token song collected in Beech Mountain, NC; and "Loch Maree," learned from Donald MacAskill of Scotland's Isle of Lewis.

Ellen Christenson (formerly of the Kossoy Sisters), Joan Sprung, Irene Salatan, and the project's artistic director Pete Sutherland join on vocal harmonies, with folk stalwart Jeff Davis adding guitar, fiddle and mandocello parts.

Sara grew up in New Hampshire but has lived in North Carolina, Ohio, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wales, Scotland and England. As a youngster in North Carolina she developed a love for old time songs and banjo music. She cites Kyle Creed as the chief influence on her understated, syncopated clawhammer banjo style. She has now been performing professionally for more than 30 years. Grey has previous recordings on Folk Legacy, Fellside and Harbourtown.

Back In The Airly Days
CD $15.99 ON SALE AGAIN SEPTEMEBER 8, 2003

1. Dry Stone Walls
2. A Tale of the Airly Days
3. Another Man’s Wedding
4. The Frog’s Wedding
5. Gosford’s Fair Desmene
6. The Pinery Boys
7. William Hall
8. The Bass Viol
9. A&F Reel
10. Fair Fanny Moore
11. Republicans and Democrats
12. Goodbye My Lover I’m Gone
13. Disheartened Ranger
14. Going to Kansas
15. Loch Maree
16. Johnny Doyle
17. I’ll Sell My Hat, I’ll Sell My Coat
18. Cranberry Song
19. Texans in Maine
20. Down The Road

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