Bascom Lamar Lunsford

The second version is even closer to the one that Schwartz gives us.

This one came from Bascom Lunsford, and he is aged 52 from Buckcomb County, North Carolina.

A group of people sitting together after a funeral, talking about things that frighten them.

A young woman says she is not afraid of anything.

There was, uh, Neilia Hyatt in her garage on Brevard Road, and then uh, uh, just a couple other, it was just long-standing kinda just living room jams.

And then there was the, the big shindig on the green that Bascom Lunsford started in the '60s in downtown Asheville that's still going on today.

Yeah.

Yeah.

... beautiful and melodic.

Um, are you a fan of, uh, Bascom Lamar Lunsford and the North Carolina, you know, history of Appalachian banjo and all that?

Oh, yeah.

I, I'm not nearly as into the history as some people.

Asheville Junction, Swannanoa Tunnel.

In the mid-1930s, a renowned folklorist named Bascom Lamar Lunsford recorded his version of the song.

Leave it.

Swannanoa Tunnel became sort of a signature song for him.