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Frank Proffitt

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Frank Proffitt (June 1, 1913 – November 24, 1965) was an Appalachian old time banjoist and performer at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival. He was a key figure in inspiring musicians of the 1960s and 1970s to play the banjo. He recorded the ballad "Tom Dooley" for Alan Lomax on one of his (Lomax's) song collecting trips. Frank was born in Laurel Bloomery, Tennessee and was raised in the Reese area of North Carolina where he worked in a variety of jobs and lived on a farm with his wife and six children.

Top songs

  1. Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down
  2. Cumberland Gap
  3. Going Across the Mountain
  4. Tom Dooley
  5. Beaver Dam Road
  6. Rye Whiskey
  7. Cindy
  8. Trifling Woman
  9. I'm Going Back to North Carolina
  10. Pretty Crowing Chicken
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  1. John Hardy
  2. Johnson Boys
  3. Wild Bill Jones
  4. Poor Man
  5. Reuben Train
  6. Cluck Old Hen
  7. Bo Lamkin
  8. I'll Never Get Drunk No More
  9. I’m Going back to North Carolina
  10. Bonnie James Campbell
  11. Man Of Constant Sorrow
  12. Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  13. Julie Jenkins
  14. Moonshine
  15. Handsome Molly
  16. Poor Ellen Smith
  17. Lord Randall
  18. Morning Fair
  19. Baby-O
  20. George Collins
  21. Ninety and Nine
  22. Single Girl
  23. Old Abe
  24. Ground Hog
  25. Got No Sugar Baby Now
  26. Sourwood Mountain
  27. Dan Doo
  28. Down in the Valley
  29. Gyps of David
  30. Song of a Lost Hunter
  31. Little Birdie
  32. Lord Lovel
  33. Shull's Mills
  34. Poor Soldier
  35. Blackberry Wine
  36. I'm a Long Time Travelling Here Below
  37. Groundhog
  38. Ruben Train
  39. Shake Hands With Mother Again
  40. Joshuay
  41. Everybody's Got To Be Tried
  42. Oh, Lord, What a Morning
  43. Little White Robe
  44. Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
  45. James Campbell
  46. Cripple Creek
  47. Down In The Velley
  48. Lowland Low
  49. Hangman
  50. Old Woman in the Garden
  51. (Going Where) My Troubles Will Be Over
  52. Little Maggie
  53. Kicking Up Dust
  54. Pretty Polly
  55. Going 'Cross The Mountain
  56. Oh Lord, What A Morning
  57. Bolamkin
  58. Conversation with Frank Proffitt
  59. I'm A Long Time Traveling
  60. W P & A
  61. Sweet By & By
  62. Bonnie James Capbell
  63. Conversation With Frank Proffit
  64. Tom Dooley (Dula)
  65. Mule Skinner Blues
  66. Bye Whiskey
  67. Song of a Lost Hunter or Love Henry
  68. Conversation With
  69. Rose Connolly
  70. Bonny James Campbell
  71. Moonshine Still
  72. Ninety Nine
  73. Tom Dooley (Ballad of Tom Dula)
  74. Going Cross the Mountain
  75. Dooley, Tom
  76. Sweet by and By
  77. Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
  78. Going ’Cross the Mountain
  79. Convers. W/Frank Proffitt
  80. Lowlands Low
  81. 08 Little Birdie
  82. 07 - Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down - Frank Proffitt, Vilas, NC
  83. Convers. W Frank Proffitt
  84. 05 - Pretty Crowing Chicken - Frank Proffitt, Vilas, NC
  85. I'm Going Back to North Caroline
  86. Blackberry Wine (Live)
  87. Satan
  88. Groundhog Song
  89. What You Gonna Do With the Baby-O?
  90. Bonnie James Campbell (Child 210)

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