YULETIDE IN STOKES
Dr. Tom and the Side Effects
This collection is a seasonal sound map of Stokes County and its surrounding hills, rivers, roads, and small communities, told through an unusually wide range of musical styles. Traditional carols and four part choral works sit beside bluegrass tales, Piedmont blues, swing jazz, retro funk, hip hop, and avant garde experiments. Familiar holiday forms are reshaped with local names, local humor, and local history—snowbound roads, creeks and forges, barns and gaps, sleigh rides and critters, frost and firelight. Some songs lean reverent, others playful or absurd, others rhythm driven and modern, but all are grounded in place. Together, they form a wintertime portrait of the Sauratown Mountains and beyond: past and present, sacred and silly, traditional and experimental, bound by geography and imagination rather than genre alone.
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Stokes County Carol 3:020:00/3:02
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0:00/2:38
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Billy the Bigfoot 3:000:00/3:00
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Pine Hall Praise 2:590:00/2:59
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0:00/3:09
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0:00/2:54
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0:00/3:07
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0:00/3:39
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Dan River Frost 3:120:00/3:12
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0:00/3:49
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0:00/3:12
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0:00/2:49
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0:00/5:12
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Moratock Rock 2:560:00/2:56
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0:00/4:58
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0:00/2:04
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Midnight at Meadows 3:220:00/3:22
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0:00/2:39
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0:00/3:01
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0:00/3:32