Railroad Tunnel to Asheville Ends in Triumph and Tragedy
Down the Road on the Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina - A podcast by Blue Ridge Music Trails
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In 1941, the famed folklorist and field recorder Alan Lomax, along with two colleagues, recorded a banjo player from the Blue Ridge Mountains named Bascom Lamar Lunsford. One of the songs he recorded in 1941, “Swannanoa Tunnel,” tells a very local story about a universal theme – the human cost of progress.
