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Benton Flippen

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James Benton Flippen (July 18, 1920 – June 28, 2011) was an old-time fiddler from Mount Airy, North Carolina. He was one of the last surviving members of a generation of performers born in the early 20th century playing in the Round Peak style centering on Surry County, North Carolina. Benton was the seventh of eight children. Benton recounts that he started playing the banjo in his early teens, and picked up the fiddle when he was about eighteen.

Top songs

  1. Benton's Dream
  2. Bile Them Cabbage Down
  3. Fishers Hornpipe
  4. Pretty Little Girl
  5. Eighth Of January
  6. More Pretty Girls Than One
  7. Breaking Up Christmas
  8. Durham's Bull
  9. Ricketts Hornpipe
  10. June Apple
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  1. This World Can't Stand Long
  2. Raggedy Ann
  3. Leather Britches
  4. Carroll County Blues
  5. Train 45
  6. Katy Hill
  7. Old Joe Clark Reel
  8. Long Tongued Woman
  9. Lost Indian
  10. The Jaybird Died of a Whooping Cough (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  11. I'll Be Somewhere
  12. Nobody's Business
  13. Sally In The Turnip Patch
  14. Country Baptizing
  15. Kansas City Railroad Blues
  16. Salt River
  17. Sally Ann
  18. I Don't Love Nobody
  19. Sweet Marie
  20. Reuben's Train
  21. Cricket on the Hearth
  22. Salt River (Banjo)
  23. Haven't Seen Mary In Years
  24. Caroll County Blues
  25. Texas Breakdown
  26. Salt River - Banjo Version
  27. Salt River (band)
  28. Fiddler's Reel
  29. Salt River - Band Version
  30. Soldier's Joy
  31. Susanna Gal
  32. Sail Away Ladies
  33. Fiddler's Dream
  34. Close By
  35. Fortune
  36. Gary Dawson's Tune
  37. Polly Put the Kettle On
  38. Ragtime Annie
  39. Train
  40. Cacklin' Hen
  41. Cumberland Gap
  42. This and That
  43. Lost Train Blues (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  44. Tomahawk
  45. Rickett's Hornpipe
  46. Liberty
  47. Soppin' the Gravy (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  48. Lost Indian (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  49. Whistlin' Rufus
  50. Stone's Rag
  51. Chinese Breakdown
  52. Peacock Rag
  53. The Girl I Left Behind Me (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  54. Red Bird (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  55. Cacklin' Hen (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  56. My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  57. Cumberland Gap (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  58. Logan County Blues (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  59. Sunny Home in Dixie (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  60. Sugar Hill (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  61. Cider (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  62. Reuben's Train (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  63. Sugar in the Gourd (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  64. Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  65. Sittin' on Top of the World (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  66. Wednesday Night Waltz (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  67. Flop Eared Mule (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  68. Sally in the Thistle Patch
  69. Cripple Creek
  70. Sittin' on Top of the World
  71. Goodnight Waltz (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  72. Salt River (Banjo Version)
  73. Eight of January
  74. Let Me Fall
  75. Florida Blues
  76. Billy in the Low Ground
  77. Breaking up Christmas (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  78. Fiddler's Reel (feat. The Smokey Valley Boys)
  79. Salt River (Band Version)
  80. The Girl I Left Behind Me
  81. The Jaybird Died of a Whooping Cough
  82. Lost Train Blues
  83. Cotton-Eyed Joe
  84. Step Back Cindy
  85. Rachel
  86. Redbird
  87. Sugar Tree Stomp
  88. Pole Cat Blues
  89. Go Home
  90. Mississippi Sawyer

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