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Still He Keeps Singing: “I Ride an Old Paint”

Sing Out! Posted on Aug 7, 2017 by Ken BiggerAug 7, 2017
Carl Sandburg (photo by William A. Smith, from Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site)

“I am here when the cities are gone. I am here before the cities come. I nourished the lonely men on horses. I will keep the laughing men who ride iron. I am dust of men.” — from “Prairie” by … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Aaron Copland, Carl Sandburg, Conversations with Death, cowboy songs, I Ride an Old Paint, Ma Crow and the Lady Slippers, Pine Hill Haints, Rita Hosking, The American Songbag, The Easy Riders, Tracy Grammer, Woody Guthrie

Far too many of you dying: ‘What’s Going On’

Sing Out! Posted on Nov 21, 2016 by Ken BiggerFeb 3, 2017
Cover image for 'What's Going On' (Motown Records)

“Local draft board No. 4 in a district surrounding State and 35th streets, containing 30,000 persons, of whom 90 per cent are colored, registered upward of 9,000 and sent 1,850 colored men to cantonments. Of these 1,850 there were only … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Aretha Franklin, Carl Sandburg, Marvin Gaye, Motown, Sam Cooke, veterans, Vietnam War, What's Going On

Twinkle, twinkle, little star…

Sing Out! Posted on Jan 15, 2013 by Patrick BlackmanApr 17, 2017
Notation of "Duncan and Brady" from Lomax and Lomax, Our Singing Country.

This is the second part of a three part series.  See also Part 1 and Part 3. Introduction In my first post this week, I introduced the bad man ballad “Duncan and Brady” and explored the historical origin of the song.  We saw, … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Alan Lomax, bad man ballad, Been on the Job Too Long, Carl Sandburg, Dorothy Scarborough, Duncan and Brady, Jerry H. Bryant, John Lomax, Lead Belly, Lonely Eagles, St. Louis, Wilmer Watts

The Demon Lover (The House Carpenter)

Sing Out! Posted on Sep 3, 2012 by Ken BiggerJun 13, 2016

This is the first of four posts on Child Ballad 243. The next three installments can be found here, here, and here. Well Met, Well Met What lengths will a singer go to in changing the song’s “facts” to keep … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged A.L. Lloyd, Carl Sandburg, Child Ballad, Child Ballad #243, Clarence Ashley, Demon Lover, Doug Wallin, House Carpenter, Peter Bellamy, Rosalie Sorrels, Tony Rice

Ain’t gonna tell you no lies

Sing Out! Posted on Jan 31, 2012 by Ken BiggerJan 5, 2015

    “As our American culture advances, it may be that classes will take up the Frankie songs as seriously as a play by Molière or a Restoration comedy or the Provençal ballads of France….While the Frankie story deals with … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged American Songbag, Carl Sandburg, Ed McCurdy, Frankie and Johnny, H.M. Belden, Josie, MacEdward Leach, My Lady in the Guinea-Blue Gown, Sam Cooke

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