I.D. Stamper – Red Wing Vinyl LP Record Album JA-010

This listing is for I.D. Stamper – Red Wing Vinyl LP Record Album JA-010.

Label: June Appal Recordings – JA 010

Format: Vinyl, LP

Country: US

Released: 1977

Genre: Folk, World, & Country

Style: Folk  

Condition:   Jacket:  Very Good            Vinyl:      Very Good

Tracklist:

A1 Darlin' Corey

A2 Ground Hog

A3 Married Life Blues

A4 Rattlesnake Bill

A5 Lost John

A6 Marching Thru Georgia

A7 Jack & Joe

A8 Going Round This World

B1 Red Wing

B2 Down South Blues

B3 Barbry Ellen

B4 John Henry

B5 900 Miles

B6 Sourwood Mountain

B7 Pretty Polly

B8 I Can't Change It

B9 Meet Me Tonight

I.D. Stamper spent a lifetime building and playing the Appalachian dulcimer. His playing style shows heavy blues influence and a rhythmic power and complexity rarely heard on this instrument. He is from Letcher County, Kentucky. He mastered the 5-string banjo and harmonica when he was a young boy, and when he was in his late 30's he began to build and play the dulcimer. Stamper constructed over 500 instruments during his lifetime, with buyers from California to England.

Few traditional instrumentalists have offered as innovative and unusual a technical approach to their instrument as Kentucky mountain dulcimer artist, I.D. Stamper. It was not until I.D. was in his thirties that he built and began to play his first dulcimer, having first mastered the harmonica and 5-string banjo as a youth, but it quickly became his first love and trademark. Stamper was born in Arkansas, where his family moved following the big lumber boom in the late 19th century. In 1912 they returned to their native Letcher County, Kentucky where “Ike” lived until his death in 1986. Starting in the coal mines as a “chalk eye” (apprentice to a more experienced miner) as a young teen, he worked nearly forty years in the mines until he left the “bad air” for a safer and better paying job as a maintenance man in a Louisville children’s hospital. But all the time music was his first love. Louise Stamper was a fine singer, dancer, entertainer, and old time banjo player. Passing her skill and enthusiasm on to her large family, the Stamper household was a center of musical activity in their community. I.D. and his eight brothers and sisters were quick learners and often entertained their father’s fellow miners and lumber mill workers as they passed the house on their way to work. The harmonica was I.D.’s first instrument, “leant on a dare,” followed quickly by the banjo and guitar. He even “sawed a little on the fiddle.” I.D. and his brothers had a band that played at many of the local dances and even “played down” the then-popular Dock Boggs and his band at a Whitesburg bank opening. But it was his contact with his mother’s relative, the legendary Uncle Ed Thomas, the roving dulcimer builder and player, that struck Ike’s fancy to the instrument that was to become his hallmark. It wasn’t until the 1940s that I.D. finally put together his first dulcimer – from a butternut log his father brought in for firewood. He fashioned his first instrument after his recollection of Uncle Ed’s design, but, by his own admission, “improved on it.” I.D. Stamper constructed over 500 instruments during his lifetime, with buyers from California to England. But it is I.D.’s music that brought him so much attention. Like many white traditional musicians from eastern Kentucky, I.D. was heavily influenced by the blues. Using a huge instrument (well over three feet long and over eighteen inches wide), tuned in an old-fashioned minor key, and utilizing the soulful and exacting use of the noter, Stamper blended white dance music and black blues offering the only blues dulcimer most people have ever heard. His rarely-heard versions of “Darlin’ Corey,” “Lost John,” and “Little Pink” act as a musical roadmap to a time and a life that most people can contact only in books. In addition, he was a uniquely warm and compelling performer whose love of music and people were a joy to participate in. Following a brief career (in his retirement) of performing extensively at local festivals, colleges, and folklife events at national parks (in addition to declining invitations to both the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife and the National Folk Festival) Parkinson’s disease all but ended his ability to play. People's sole opporunity to appreciate and album of I.D.'s music lies in the recording, Red Wing, for June Appal.

CONDITION Descriptions:

I base the condition of each of my Records off of 's Grading System. 

• MINT (M) Looks new and unplayed. Very high vinyl luster and no noticeable label defects. Sounds new. With 45rpm records, this does not always mean there is no surface noise at all. 

• NEAR MINT (NM) Looks almost new, but has some minor flaws such as a drill hole; unobtrusive writing on label (e.g., an X on a promo copy); minor scuffing on vinyl; minor color flaking on label, or other insignificant flaws that only slightly detract from visual appeal. May have some minor surface noise, but nothing distracting. 

• VERY GOOD (VG) There may be light scuffing and some of the original vinyl luster may be lost. The vinyl and label may appear used, but well cared for. Records may have some more obvious flaws that are not visually degrading such as a sticker on the label; more noticeable writing on the label; scuffing and minor scratches on the vinyl; or minor discoloration of the label. There may be very minor warping of the vinyl. There may be a slight scratch not affecting play. 

• GOOD (G) Record has visible signs of handling and playing, such as loss of vinyl luster, minor surface scratches, groove wear, and audible surface noise. Appears well used but not abused. May have a few major flaws, such as scratches, label tears, or stickers, and/or writing. 

• FAIR (F) Appears well used and somewhat abused. Audio is not great due to surface noise and scratches. The record may have a stick or a skip. Records in this condition are those you might purchase to fill a hole in your collection until a better copy comes along. 

• POOR (P) Well played with little luster and significant surface noise, but still not cracked or broken. Record likely skips and/or sticks. Typically so bad looking that a true “collector” would just toss it out. More useful as a Frisbee. I try not to sell records in this condition.

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