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"These beautiful recordings of Preston capture his haunting falsetto voice and intricate East Coast guitar style." -Tim Duffy

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Winston-Salem, North Carolina is often considered a pre-war center for the blues music that was performed at the tobacco warehouses. Today this area is still home to a diverse assortment of blues and blues-related musicians. I asked Guitar Gabriel about older musicians whom he know and he mentioned Preston Fulp. We found Preston the next day outside his garage. He was happy to see his old friend Gabe and we talked and made music.

Preston Fulp, born in 1915, was a sawmill worker, a tobacco sharecropper, moonshiner and blues and old-time guitarist.He made these recording at the age of 78 and died a few months later in October 1993. Preston weaves stories of his life through both secular and sacred songs. He was the last original Piedmont bluesman from turn-of-the-century Winston-Salem.

Track Listing: 1/Careless Love 2/Farther Along 3/Chicken Stews 4/Wedding Bells 5/Banks of the Ohio 6/Glory to His Name 7/The Church 8/I Shall Not Be Moved 9/I'm A Sawmill Worker 10/In the Pines 11/Renfro Valley 12/Moonshine Story 13/Cindy 14/Dreaming About the Guitar 15/You're Going to Be Sorry 16/Little Darling 17/Sharecropping Life 18/Going Down the Road Feeling Bad 19/Music From the Heart