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Big Bill Broonzy - "C.C. Rider"

Acoustic blues guitarist Big Bill Broonzy late in his long career, troubled in mind and outspoken in song. With controversial topical songs, rural blues and spirituals, this CD showcases brilliant vocals and intricate solo guitar work.

Includes live radio and concert recordings plus the best of Broonzy's 1950s Folkways recordings, including his classic "Key to the Highway." 36 page booklet with extensive notes, photos, and lyrics.

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"Gypsy Davy" by Margaret MacArthur

"Gypsy Davy" by Margaret MacArthur from the album "Folksongs of Vermont" (FW05314)

Born in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, Margaret MacArthur spent her childhood moving around the western United States. Her first contact with folk music came in 1933, when her father began work at an Arizona timber company with displaced cowboys and folk singers who had collected songs throughout their travels. In 1948 MacArthur moved to Vermont, where she gathered the songs presented here from churches, friends, and broadsides found near her farm. When speaking of her death, Margaret MacArthur’s granddaughter Robin wrote, "On her deathbed she was sick with morphine, most of her memory gone, but she could still remember the lyrics to any ballad we asked her to sing. This music had etched itself into her soul; song and landscape and self had twined into a fabric that was lasting, resounding, and full of grace."

 

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Free Download: "On My Way to See Moe Asch"

Our featured download from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is "On My Way to See Moe Asch" from the album Classic Piano Blues, performed by Champion Jack Dupree. Classic Piano Blues revisits raucous boogie-woogie and blues legends in 20 tracks drawn from the well of the Folkways Collections. For more information, and to download this track, click here.

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