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IN THIS PODCAST YOU CAN LISTEN TO A LOT OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC WITH INSIGHTS

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Sounding for Harry Smith

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2025/02/12

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

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Casey Jones

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2025/02/03

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) and for his aptitude at being always on time. After his death, he became a real heroic figure and the song

30:59

Farewell (Boots of Spanish Leather)

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2025/02/03

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 Gypsy", is a traditional folk song that originated as a Scottish border ballad, and has been popular throughout

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The James Alley Blues Variations

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2025/02/03

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

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John Henry

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2025/02/03

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 has been the subject of numerous stories, plays, books, and novels.

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Public Domain - Folk Songs from Martin & Nino

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2025/02/03

1 - That Crazy War2 - I was born 10000 years ago3 - Soldier's Joy4 - The Fox5 - Gipsy Davey6 - Tennessee Stud7 - Dink's Song8 - I had a little rooster9 - Blackwater Blues10- Barbara Allen11- Risin' Sun Blues12- Transportation13- Hard Times Come Again No More14- The Water is Wide15- Sailor on the deep blue sea16- Walkin' Boss17- I wish was a mole in the ground18- Tom Cat Blues19- Willie the poor boy20- Blind Fiddler

30:59

The Minglewood Blues Variations

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2025/02/03

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 from Memphis, older than the Memphis Jug Band. Gus Cannon was 44 when he cut this (See also: Walk Right In

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The Sugar Baby / Red Rocking Chair Variations

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2025/02/03

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?".

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Excerpts from interviews with Dock Boggs 3 di 3

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2025/02/03

the complete transcript of the interview is in this link:https://www.angelfire.com/.../doc.../interview_excerpts.htmlMike 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 the 1920s. He was all but forgotten as an artist until Seeger rediscovered him in the 1960s.

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Excerpts from interviews with Dock Boggs 2 di 3

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2025/02/03

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Excerpts from interviews with Dock Boggs 1 di 3

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2025/02/03

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The Sugar Baby_Red Rocking Chair Variations

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2025/02/01

“Sugar Babe” belongs to a family of “rounder” songs, cultivated especially by young men, carefree and assertive in spirit, often risqué and in the Appalachian South associated in the early part of the last century with the five-string banjo. Afro-american influences show up frequently in the “rounder” songs and it is possible that “Sugar Babe” itslef has afro-american connections.Liner notes from “The Hammons Family » lp (Rounder/Library of Congress)Sugar Baby or Red Rocking Chair is a widespread

30:59

The Minglewood Blues Variations

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2025/02/01

Artist: Gus Cannon's Jug StompersAuthor: Noah LewisLabel: VictorYear: 1928His 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 from Memphis, older than the

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3 - Excerpts from interviews with Dock Boggs

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2025/02/01

the complete transcript of the interview is in this link:https://www.angelfire.com/folk/longtimecoming/dockboggs/interview_excerpts.htmlMike 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 the 1920s. He was all but forgotten as an artist until Seeger rediscovered him in the

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2 - Excerpts from interviews with Dock Boggs

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2025/02/01

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1 - Excerpts from interviews with Dock Boggs

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2025/02/01

15:59

American Guitar

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2017/11/06

Mississippi John Hurt insieme a Mabel Hillery e il Rev.Gary Davis con Libba Cotten a suonare insieme in cucina come non li avete mai potuto sentire su disco. E poi una chicca discografica: John Fahey con Bill Barth sotto le mentite spoglie si R.L. Watson & Josiah Jones.

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Poor Boy

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2017/03/13

“Poor Boy Blues” is one of those Blues songs/lyrics that are so popular that most Blues players seemed to have a version of it. The poor boy, long ways from home, was more often than not, the rambling Blues musician himself. It was usually a piece played on the guitar out of an open-tuning called Vestapol (open D) and using a slide or bottleneck to play the melody on the high strings.I’ve selected a few versions that I love, mostly from black Blues players but the Kentucky banjo player Buell Kazee

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Casey Jones

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2016/06/05

“FATAL WRECK – Engineer Casey Jones, of This City, Killed Near Canton, Miss. – DENSE FOG THE DIRECT CAUSE – Of a Rear End Collision on the Illinois Central. – Fireman and Messenger Injured – Passenger Train Crashed Into a Local Freight Partly on the Siding-Several Cars Demolished.” Jackson, Tennessee Sun newspaper, april 30, 1900.

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Excerpts from interviews with Dock Boggs 3/3

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2016/01/24

1- AND HOW ABOUT 'THE DOWN SOUTH BLUES?' CAN YOU REMEMBER WHERE YOU HEARD THAT? "Well, I learned that off of a phonograph record. My brother- in-law -- that was when we lived over here at Sutherland working for a while for Wise Coal and Coke Company -- he was a person that bought an awful lot of these phono- graph records at that time when was selling quite a lot of them in through here. Played them on these old- fashioned machines. I guess that he had probably 2 or 3 hundred of them. He had that

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