Years ago, Spencer Moore sat down with his brother Joe and compiled a list of all the songs they knew.

The brothers had grown up in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, where old-time mountain ballads bloomed like azaleas and music poured like the trickling headwaters of a major river. They had learned to play and sing the way people have always learned to play in the mountains -- by listening to the songs of their mother and father.

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