David Holt
About the artist
David Holt is a four-time Grammy Award winner for his work as a musician. He is dedicated to performing and preserving traditional American music and stories. Holt plays ten acoustic instruments and has released numerous recordings of traditional mountain music and southern folktales. He also hosts a jazz program for public radio, Riverwalk, as well as a television program on folk music and culture on North Carolina public television, Folkways. He frequently performs with Doc Watson.
Top songs
- Ready for the Times to Get Better
- Georgie Buck
- Ruben's Train
- Whistlin' Asheville Blues
- Til The Wheels Come Off
- Steel Guitar Blues
- Cousin Sally Brown
- TEDTalks : The stories and song of Appalachia - David Holt (2004)
- Deep River Blues
- Wabash Cannonball
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- Cripple Creek
- Bury Me Beneath the Willow
- Corrina
- Sara Jane's Tune
- Down the Road
- Slowfood
- Dixie
- Shady Grove
- John Hartford's Farewell
- Tailybone
- The Old John Hardy
- The Tennesse Stud
- Let It Slide
- Walk on the Moon Again
- Man In The Abyss
- Hole in my Heart
- Pretty Polly
- The Cat Came Back
- Til The Wheels Fall Off
- John Henry
- Bound To Ride
- Freight Train
- I Got A Bullfrog
- Shotgun Wedding
- Got No Use For Lonely
- Darlin' Cory
- I Played Like The Rest Of The Boys
- Wildwood Flower
- Little Log Cabin in the Lane
- When the Train Comes Along
- Georgia Buck
- Rolling in My Sweet Baby's Arms
- Doodle Daddle Day
- Fire on the Mountain
- I Got You
- Ain't No Bugs On Me
- When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland
- Trouble in Mind
- Top of the World
- Mole in the Ground
- Searchin' Understone
- Dad Was A Harmonica Player
- Sittin' On Top Of The World
- Blackeyed Susie
- Tom Dooley
- Louise
- Beaumont Rag
- Whiskey Before Breakfast, Ragtime Annie
- Doc's First Guitar
- Train That Carried My Girl From Town
- Free Little Bird
- Learn To Pick It Good.
- Barney McCabe
- Cat With Ten Lives.
- Railroad Bill
- Hairyman
- Stand By Me
- I've Got You
- How to Play the Spoons
- Sail Away Ladies
- Cindy
- Mistaken Identity
- Never No More Blues
- The King's Treasure
- C-h-i-c-k-e-n
- Old-time Medley
- Who Broke the Lock?
- Fingerstyle Guitar
- Yes, Papa
- Cluck Old Hen
- Reel & Rock
- I Got the Blues and I Can't Be Satisfied
- Whoop Em Up Cindy
- Leaving Home
- Fool Who Knows
- Texas Bound
- Black-Eyed Susie
- Walk On
- Keep on the Sunnyside
- The Glendy Burke
- Roadblock
- Wood Sheddin
- The Taen-awa
- Hairyman Meets Tailybone
- Otto Wood
- Spearfinger
- Wreck of Old 97
- The Telephone Girl
- Sail Away
- The Woman From Wildcat
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