A demo recorded in 2007 for a limited audience at Deep Creek, Bryson City N.C. The first lineup of the re-formed Freight Hoppers; with original members, David Bass (fiddle) and Frank Lee (banjo & vocals), Isaac Deal (bass & vocals) and Thomas Bailey (guitar & vocals)

Freight Hoppers demo 2006

03 Shout Lula

02 Red Rocking Chair

01 Train That Carried My Gal From Town

Une déploration pour les États-Unis durant l'été 2020.

Nationwide

With Isaac Deal on tenor vocals. Recorded live at the San Fransisco Bluegrass & Old Time Festival.

SFBGOT08

Dink's Tune

05 - The Fire Next Time

01 - Lego Batman

02 - Nonc Bud

Broad Run Picnic contest band, warming up at the 2009 Galax Old Fiddlers Convention.
Mark Campbell -fiddle, Rebby Sharp -guitar, Thomas Bailey -guitar, Kevin Roop -banjo & Tammy Sawyer -bass
Saying goodbye to the smartypants hippie rule of "no three finger banjos in the old time band category".
Din't place, but didn't get disqualified either.
Bend it, but don't break it.

Free State Hornpipe

Aaron Jonah Lewis & Thomas Bailey with Joel Wennerstrom on the banjo

Sugarbabe

In the summer of 2005, fiddler David Bass (of The Freight Hoppers) assembled a group with Allison Williams on banjo & Thomas Bailey on guitar. Former Freight Hoppers bandmate Cary Fridley & Tammy Sawyer took turns playing bass for the round of regional fiddlers' conventions from the Mount Airy Fiddlers' in June to Clifftop & Galax in August.
  In October, David Allison & Thomas met up  with Abby Ladinin Lafayette, Indiana to record this 5 song EP. 
  The group would later be known as The Forge Mountain Diggers & toured the US and Scandinavia for the next three years.
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/fmdiggers

Run Mountain

Boatman

Devilish Mary

Jawbone

In the summer of 2005, fiddler David Bass (of The Freight Hoppers) assembled a group with Allison Williams on banjo & Thomas Bailey on guitar. Former Freight Hoppers bandmate Cary Fridley & Tammy Sawyer took turns playing bass for the round of regional fiddlers' conventions from the Mount Airy Fiddlers' in June to Clifftop & Galax in August.
  In October, David Allison & Thomas met up  with Abby Ladinin Lafayette, Indiana to record this 5 song EP.  
Engineered & mastered by Allison Williams.
 The group would later be known as The Forge Mountain Diggers & toured the US and Scandinavia for the next three years.
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/fmdiggers

Raleigh & Spencer

this'ere is a version of a version of a version of an old Memphis blues tune. WC Handy had a big hit with it in 1915 and has been covered by the likes of: The Holy Modal Rounders, Doc & Merle Watson, Janis Joplin, R. Crumb & his Cheap Suit Serenaders, Charlie Poole, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Professor Longhair plus thousands more to be sure.
That Joebass DeJarnette on the bass and engineering and Parrish Ellis with the other guitar. 

the Hesitation Blues

Thomas Bailey il est un résultat multi-instrumentiste de la scène musicale de la Virginie centrale des années 80s & 90s. 

Derrière son projet «Immigrant Music» , quatre musiciens qu’une même vision réunit : faire vibrer les liens invisibles entre les cultures. Thomas Bailey, américain originaire des Appalaches, est un explorateur musical passé par Forge Mountain Diggers, Sarah Savoy’s Hellraising Hayride, The Freight Hoppers ou The Remedies. Son jeu, nourri d’énergie punk et de folk traditionnelle, relie les continents avec une intensité rare. Magou Samb, chanteur, auteur et compositeur sénégalais, incarne une Afrique moderne et métissée, où le wolof se mêle au français et à l’anglais dans des textes empreints de respect, de partage et de spiritualité. Enfin, Patrick Gigon (batterie, percussions) et Ben Body (basse, contrebasse), tous deux membres de La Caravane Passe, insufflent une pulsation généreuse et universelle. Ensemble, ils font d’Immigrant Music un quatuor nomade, à la fois enraciné et mouvant, où chaque note devient un pont entre les mondes.

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