Name Ola Reed | Role Singer-songwriter | |
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Ola Belle Reed (August 18, 1916 – August 16, 2002) was an American folk singer, songwriter and banjo player.
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- Ola belle reed i ve endured
- Michael james i ve endured ola belle reed
- Early life
- Career
- Honors
- Personal life
- Releases
- Discography
- References
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Early life
Reed was born Ola Belle Campbell in the unincorporated town of Grassy Creek, Ashe County, North Carolina, to Arthur Campbell and Ellen Campbell (née Osborne). She was the fourth of thirteen children.
As a young child, Reed learned the clawhammer-style banjo and along with her musical family, sang old-time songs from the mountain region where they lived.
Career
When she was a teenager, Reed's family moved to Southern Pennsylvania. In the mid-1930s, Reed joined The North Carolina Ridge Runners. She later formed the band, The New River Boys and Girls, with her brother, Alex Campbell, which went on to open the New River Ranch in Rising Sun, Maryland, a music park that hosted many well known performers until being destroyed in 1958. They went on to be the "house band" and broadcast live shows at another music park called Sunset Park in West Grove, Pennsylvania.
Reed's songs often speak of Appalachian life and traditions. Her best-known songs have been recorded by mainstream bluegrass and country artists. High on a Mountain has been recorded by Del McCoury, Tim O'Brien, and Marty Stuart. I've Endured, has been recorded by Del McCoury as well as Tim O'Brien.
The annual Ola Belle Reed Music Festival in Lansing, North Carolina, celebrates her life and music.
Honors
Personal life
In 1949, Reed married to Ralph "Bud" Reed. They had two sons, Ralph and David. She had a stroke in 1987 that had left her unable to continue to perform music. She died on August 16, 2002, and she is buried in West Nottingham Cemetery in West Nottingham, Maryland.
Releases
In 2010, Smithsonian Folkways released Rising Sun Melodies, a collection of 11 songs that appeared on her previous Folkways recordings, plus eight previously unreleased tracks that were recorded at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in the 1970s. Among the musicians accompanying her on the album were her brother Alex Campbell, her husband Bud Reed, her son Dave Reed, and the husband and wife team of John Coffey and Betsy Rutherford.
In January 2011, Ola Belle Reed's Rising Sun Melodies won The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards in the Reissue category.
Her song "High on a Mountain" was sung by the character "Mags Bennett" on the TV series "Justified".
On August 21, 2015, Dust-to-Digital released the hardcover book / 2-CD set Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line by Henry Glassie, Clifford Murphy and Douglas Dowling Peach.