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Sounding for Harry Smith: Early Pacific Northwest Influences is a new a book about Smith's Great Depression childhood in Anacortes, Washington.

Soon after the fatal train collision that killed engineer John Luther Jones (he was nicknamed “Casey” because he was from the town of “Cayce”, Kentucky) on april 30, 1900, heroic tales of his death started to be told across the South. When he was living, Jones already had a growing reputation among railroad folks for his trademark whistle (every engineer at this time could make his own whistle) an...

Dylan based the song on the traditional British folk ballad " Leaving of Liverpool ". He first played it for friends in  Greenwich Village after returning from a two-week trip to London in early January 1963. In "Leaving of Liverpool", the ballad's first verse and chorus tell the tale of someone sailing from  Liverpool to California, bound to miss the loved one left behind. " The Raggle Taggle Gyp...

“James Alley” is a remarkable early Blues song that tells of the difficult relationships between two lovers

John Henry  is an American  folk hero . An African American  freedman , he is said to have worked as a "steel-driving man"—a man tasked with hammering a steel drill into a rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing a railroad tunnel. The story of John Henry is told in a classic blues folk song about his duel against a drilling machine, which exists in many versions, and ha...

1 - That Crazy War 2 - I was born 10000 years ago 3 - Soldier's Joy 4 - The Fox 5 - Gipsy Davey 6 - Tennessee Stud 7 - Dink's Song 8 - I had a little rooster 9 - Blackwater Blues 10- Barbara Allen 11- Risin' Sun Blues 12- Transportation 13- Hard Times Come Again No More 14- The Water is Wide 15- Sailor on the deep blue sea 16- Walkin' Boss 17- I wish was a mole in the ground 18- Tom Cat Blues 19-...

His jug was an empty can of kerosine and the other members of his trio were Ashley Thompson (guitar) and author Noah Lewis (harmonica), Minglewood is a corruption of Noah's birthplace Mengelwood near Dyersburg, TN. There's always been a huge levee camp there, big enough for itinerant musicians to earn a few bucks, especially with a song about the place. The Jug Stompers were the oldest jug band fr...

The lament of a henpecked man. He plans to send his wife back to her mother "next payday". Opening line - "Got no sugar baby now, I got no honey baby now..." Chorus - "Who'll rock the cradle, who'll sing the song, when I'm gone?".

the complete transcript of the interview is in this link: https://www.angelfire.com/.../doc.../interview_excerpts.html Mike Seeger interviews Dock Boggs, a Virginia coal miner, banjo player and singer of old-time Appalachian mountain music and blues. Boggs once garnered a record deal with Brunswick to record 24 tracks, but he only completed eight before quitting and returning to Virginia during th...

the complete transcript of the interview is in this link: https://www.angelfire.com/.../doc.../interview_excerpts.html Mike Seeger interviews Dock Boggs, a Virginia coal miner, banjo player and singer of old-time Appalachian mountain music and blues. Boggs once garnered a record deal with Brunswick to record 24 tracks, but he only completed eight before quitting and returning to Virginia during th...

the complete transcript of the interview is in this link: https://www.angelfire.com/.../doc.../interview_excerpts.html Mike Seeger interviews Dock Boggs, a Virginia coal miner, banjo player and singer of old-time Appalachian mountain music and blues. Boggs once garnered a record deal with Brunswick to record 24 tracks, but he only completed eight before quitting and returning to Virginia during th...