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philgbtqochs 1 year ago
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woke folk music be like :
woody GAYthrie
TRANSco houston
bob dylan
PRONOUNS seeger
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pierrotsoup 2 months ago
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Modern americans can make yearnful music all we want but no one is doin it like an Appalachian or new englander balladeer recorded in the early revival and that's just a fact of life #sorry
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02nique02 17 days ago
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cowboy ballads
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folk-enjoyer 3 months ago
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Song of the day
(do you want the history of your favorite folk song? dm me or submit an ask and I'll do a full rundown)
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"The Dying Cowboy" Cisco Houston, 1952
"The Dying Cowboy " or "Cowboys Lament" is based on an old sailors poem, written by Edwin Hubbell Chapin and published in 1839, "The Ocean Burial"
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Edgar Allan Poe's "Southern Literary Messenger" vol V, pp.6l5-6l6, 1839
here's an example of the traditional song put to music by Eugene Jemison in 1954
by the 1880s, the lyrics had morphed into the famous cowboy song we all know and love, but it wasn't until 1910 that it was pared with its well-known melody by John Lomax in the album, "Cowboy Songs And Other Frontier Ballads" here (recorded 1942)
by far, the most interesting thing that happened to the song is that its meaning was reversed. in 1934, Carson Robison changed the lyrics and the song and titled it "Carry Me Back to The Lone Prairie" (recorded 1941) and several other contemporary famous country artists
like Sons of the Pioneers,
Riders in the Sky,
Gene Autry,
Johnny Bond,
and Roy Rogers.
covered this song.
this more Hollywood country version of the song changed the story away from the bitter toiling of cowhand workers and towards nostalgia for the West that fit right in with other popular country music of the 40s and 50s. At the same time, the song was covered by Cisco Houston, a leftwing activist and official Union Boy, among other progressives, as a criticism of working class conditions. This song is so utterly fascinating to me and the best way to visually and auditorially explain the historical split manufactured between folk and country.
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slowtraincumming 3 months ago
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This book has been teaching me to listen to Cisco always
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fiarill 8 months ago
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Streets Of Laredo (Cowboy's Lament) - Cisco Houston
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ominous-synths-records 3 months ago
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A Group Of Childrens Songs (Pick It Up, Take Me Riding In My Car, Why Oh Why, Ship In The Sky, Grassey Grass Grass) - The Babysitters, Cisco Houston, Woody Guthrie
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upperswampmonkey 5 months ago
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Soup Song - Cisco Houston
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aeaeaexxzd 6 months ago
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joemayo65 9 months ago
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Cisco Houston Passing Through
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wooodyguthrie 1 year ago
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I saw Jesus on that cross
On a hill called Calvary
"Do you hate mankind for what they did to you?"
He said, "Speak of love not hate
There's things to do, it's growing late
I've so little time and I'm just passing through."
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clocksandspoons 2 years ago
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ninetimesbluedemo 1 year ago
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33, 66, 99!
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folk-enjoyer 2 months ago
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Song of the Day
do you want to know the history of a folk song? submit an ask or dm me and I'll cover it
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"Passing Through" Pete Seeger, 1956
the song was originally written in 1948 by Dick Blakeslee for the People's Songs bulletin and newsletter.
the organization and newsletter were started by Pete Seeger and Alan Lomax in NYC in 1946 and were published between 1946-50
the first recording of the song is the one featured here, done in 1956. but others have covered it, including
cisco houston 1965
Leonard Cohen 1972
Joan Baez 1975
I love this song, but I've always thought it'd be cool if the verse about George Washington was replaced with john brown.
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slowtraincumming 5 months ago
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Hi....
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nashvillehotchicken 2 years ago
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my spotify wrapped is a bit skewed tbh most of my music is on youtube
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