June Appal Recordings was established by Appalshop

Appalshop

Appalshop is a media, arts, and education center located in Whitesburg, Kentucky, in the heart of the southern Appalachian region of the United States....

 to record and distribute music of and from Central Appalachia

Appalachia

Appalachia is a term used to describe a cultural region in the eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York state to northern Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in the U.S...

. Artists with June Appal releases include Buell Kazee

Buell Kazee

Buell Kazee was an American country and folk singer. He is considered one of the most successful folk musicians of the 1920s and experienced a career comeback during the American folk music revival of the 1960s due in part to his inclusion on the Anthology of American Folk Music.- Early life...

, Morgan Sexton, Lee Sexton

Lee Sexton

Lee Sexton is an American Banjo player from Letcher County, Kentucky. He began playing the banjo at the age of eight and is proficient in the two-finger picking and "drop-thumb" traditional styles of east Kentucky. He also sings...

, Carla Gover, Nimrod Workman

Nimrod Workman

Nimrod Workman was an American singer, coal miner and trade unionist. His musical repertoire included traditional English and Scottish ballads, Appalachian folk songs and original compositions.-Biography:...

 and others. Over the last thirty years, June Appal has released more than eighty titles, many of which are available through their online store. June Appal also distributes compilation recordings taken from the annual Seedtime on the Cumberland festival which is held in Whitesburg, Kentucky

Whitesburg, Kentucky

Whitesburg is a city in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,139 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Letcher County.-Culture:...

 every June.

Catalog

TITLE	PERFORMER	RELEASE DATE	FORMAT	CATALOG #
Passin' Thru the Garden	Nimrod Workman Nimrod Workman Nimrod Workman was an American singer, coal miner and trade unionist. His musical repertoire included traditional English and Scottish ballads, Appalachian folk songs and original compositions.-Biography:...	1974		JA0001
New Wood	Si Kahn Si Kahn Si Kahn is an American singer-songwriter, activist, and founder and former executive director of Grassroots Leadership.- Early life and education :...	1975		JA0002
How Can I Keep From Singing?	John McCutcheon John McCutcheon John McCutcheon is an American folk music singer and multi-instrumentalist who has produced 34 albums since the 1970s. He is regarded as a master of the hammered dulcimer, and is also proficient on many other instruments including guitar, banjo, autoharp, mountain dulcimer, fiddle, and...	1975		JA0003
Grandfather's Greatest Hits, Vol. I	Roadside Theater	1976		JA0004
Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party	New River Boys	1975		JA0005
Brown Lung Cotton Mill Blues	Mountain Musicians Cooperative	1975		JA0006
Deep in Tradition	Tommy Hunter Tommy Hunter Thomas James "Tommy" Hunter, CM, O.Ont is a Canadian country music performer, known as "Canada's Country Gentleman".-Career:...	1975		JA0007
The Eagle and the Sparrow	Jon Sundell	1976		JA0008
Buell Kazee	Buell Kazee Buell Kazee Buell Kazee was an American country and folk singer. He is considered one of the most successful folk musicians of the 1920s and experienced a career comeback during the American folk music revival of the 1960s due in part to his inclusion on the Anthology of American Folk Music.- Early life...	1978		JA0009
Red Wing	I. D. Stamper	1977		JA0010
They Can't Put It Back	Mike Kline and Rich Kirby	1977		JA0012
Ballads for the Sad Café	Jack Wright Jack Wright Jack Wright was the hero of a popular series of Victorian science fiction dime novels and story papers written by Luis Senarens, the so-called "American Jules Verne". A few stories are also credited to Francis W. Doughty...	Unreleased	Unreleased	JA0013
The Wind That Shakes the Barley	John McCutcheon John McCutcheon John McCutcheon is an American folk music singer and multi-instrumentalist who has produced 34 albums since the 1970s. He is regarded as a master of the hammered dulcimer, and is also proficient on many other instruments including guitar, banjo, autoharp, mountain dulcimer, fiddle, and...	1977		JA0014
Plank Road	Plank Road String Band	1978		JA0015
Banish Misfortune	Daglish and Larsen	1978	Cassette/LP	JA0016
Cold & Lonesome on a Train	Sparky Rucker	1977		JA0017
For My Friends of Song	Betty Smith Betty Smith Betty Smith, née Elisabeth Wehner , was an American author.-Biography:Born on December 15, 1896 in Brooklyn, New York to German immigrants, she grew up poor in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and attended Girl's High School. These experiences served as the framework to her first novel, A Tree Grows in...	1977	Cassette/LP	JA0018
65 Years of Irish Music	Michael J. Kennedy Michael J. Kennedy Michael Joseph Kennedy was an American businessman and politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of New York from 1939 to 1943....	1977		JA0019
Been a Long Time Traveling	Addie Graham Addie Graham Addie Prater Graham, born in 1900 in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, was a masterful traditional singer whose life and repertoire reflect both deep tradition and an era of social change in the Appalachian Mountains. She sang ballads which trace back to the British Isles, others composed in...	1978		JA0020
Green Rocky Road	Guy Carawan Guy Carawan Guy Carawan is an American folk musician and musicologist. He serves as music director and song leader for the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee....	1977		JA0021
From the Depths of My Soul	Earl Gilmore	1977		JA0022
Sycamore Tea	Dutch Cove Old Time String Band	1978	Cassette	JA0023
Mountain Swing	Luke SmathersAppalachain Folk	1978	LP	JA0024
Mountain State Music	Andrew F. Boarman	1978		JA0025
The First of Autumn	Daglish and Larsen	1978	Cassette/LP	JA0026
Shuffle Rag	Andy Cohen	1980	LP	JA0027
From Earth to Heaven	Wry Straw	1978	Cassette	JA0028
Jubilee	Guy Carawan Guy Carawan Guy Carawan is an American folk musician and musicologist. He serves as music director and song leader for the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee....	1979	N/A	JA0029
Road to Home	Marion Sumner	1980	LP	JA0030
Dixie Highway Sign	Robin and Linda Williams Robin and Linda Williams Robin and Linda Williams are a husband-and-wife singer-songwriter folk music duo from Virginia. They began their musical association in Nashville, TN in 1971, performing in local clubs....	1979	Cassette/LP	JA0031
The 5th Generation	Gary Brewer and Phil Sexton	1997	Cassette/CD	JA0076
Banjer Days	Various Artists	1999	Cassette/CD	JA0077
Gems	Lily May Ledford Lily May Ledford Lily May Ledford was an American clawhammer banjo and fiddle player. After gaining regional radio fame in the 1940s and 1950s as head of the Coon Creek Girls— one of the first all-female string bands to appear on radio— Ledford went on to gain national renown as a solo artist during...	2000	Cassette/CD	JA0078
Last Possum Up the Tree	George Gibson George Gibson George C. Gibson , nicknamed Mooney, was a Canadian baseball player who caught for two different Major League teams, starting in 1905 with the Pittsburgh Pirates and ending his playing career with the New York Giants in 1918. In the 1920s and 1930s he served as manager for Pittsburgh and for the...	2000	Cassette/CD	JA0079
Whoa Mule (Reissue)	Lee Sexton Lee Sexton Lee Sexton is an American Banjo player from Letcher County, Kentucky. He began playing the banjo at the age of eight and is proficient in the two-finger picking and "drop-thumb" traditional styles of east Kentucky. He also sings...	2001	CD	JA0080
Butter Beans	Papa Joe Smiddy	2001	CD	JA0081
Cold Icy Mountain	Brett Ratliff	2008	CD	JA0084
The June Appal Recordings	Uncle Charlie Osborne Uncle Charlie Osborne Charles Nelson Osborne, , affectionately known as "Uncle Charlie," was a musician in the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia. He was born in what is now known as Cowan Osborne Hollow, named for his father, in Copper Creek, Virginia...	2008	CD	JA0085