![]() ![]() This is an outstanding hike if you're seeking a little bit of solitude and some outstanding views of the Southern Smokies. ![]() The trail actually circles around to the backside of the knob where you'll see a sign for the short spur trail that leads to the top of the overlook. As you climb higher, views of the surrounding mountains, including your destination, become more prevalent.Īt roughly 1.6 miles from the trailhead you'll pass a nice cascade tumbling down the hillside.Īt roughly 3 miles, as you walk along the narrow Beaugard Ridge, the Lonesome Pine Overlook will be almost directly in front of you. ![]() Throughout the lower elevations of the hike you'll pass through a mixed, new-growth forest. Some of Betty Cody's other RCA Victor recordings can be found on a public domain anthology from Germany's Cattle label, The Successful Hillbilly Era of Betty Cody.The Noland Divide Trail begins as a steady climb as it skirts along the southern boundary of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. ![]() The collection exhumes one previously unreleased duet, "Come Back to This Heart of Mine," that is a worthwhile discovery, but the omission of Cody's answer songs is lamentable. Their sound is their own, with a unique blend of Lone Pine's rich northeastern voice and Cody's faint French-Canadian accent, and a repertoire composed, to a large degree, by the duo's guitarist, Ray Couture. There was a great deal of variety among Canadian country artists of the '50s, so it cannot be said that the music of Cody and Lone Pine bears any particular similarity to that of Hank Snow, Wilf Carter, Stu Phillips, and others. "I Heard the Bluebirds Sing," a song by fellow Canadian Hod Pharis, is heard here in a recording that predates the Browns' definitive hit version by several years. The anthology offers a sampling of songs Cody and Lone Pine recorded together and individually between 1950-1954, some of which ("Prince Edward Island Is Heaven to Me," " In Annapolis Valley") were aimed at the Canadian audience. Cody also made a minor splash with a series of answer songs in the '50s, charting one national Top Ten hit with a follow-up to the Davis Sisters' "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know About Him." Unfortunately, On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine doesn't include any of Cody's popular answer records. The two artists enjoyed regional success in Maine and Canada and performed for three years on the Wheeling Jamboree in West Virginia, but are mostly remembered today for having parented legendary jazz guitarist Lenny Breau. Bear Family continues its exploration of vintage Canadian country music with On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine, an anthology of RCA Victor recordings by French-Canadian singer Betty Cody and her husband, Hal Lone Pine, from Maine. ![]()
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