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"bury me": three views of folk through death obsession

May 17, 2010, 5:46am ipickmynose
"bury me": three views of folk through death obsession Joe Pug by Adrian Bischoff Certain phrases skew themselves toward certain types of music. "I Will Follow" has a tendency to be in pop music-think Little Peggy March's "I Will Follow Him" or Death Cab for Cuties's "I Will Follow You into the Dark"; for whatever reason, "Bury Me" has a tendency to be in folk music. Perhaps its the genre's overall fascination with death. Death and bad-man ballads are common in traditional folk music from the American South, a tradition that carried into country, bluegrass, folk-revival and the various forms of music [...]
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Artist:Almeda Riddle
Title:Bury Me Beneath the Willow
Link Text:Almeda Riddle - Bury Me Beneath the Willow
File Name:01 Bury Me Beneath the Willow.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1997
Artist:Fields Ward
Title:Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Link Text:Fields Ward - Bury Me Not on the Lone Prarie
File Name:17 Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2002
Artist:Joe Pug
Title:Bury Me Far (From My Uniform)
Link Text:Joe Pug - Bury Me Far (From My Uniform)
File Name:09 Bury Me Far From My Uniform.mp3
Bitrate:233 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Otis Gibbs
Title:Bury Me on A Rainy Day
Link Text:Otis Gibbs - Bury Me on a Rainy Day
File Name:12 Bury Me on A Rainy Day.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2009

Mining the Audio Motherlode, Volume 53 (MP3s)

Feb 3, 2010, 12:00pm WFMU's Beware of the Blog
Mining the Audio Motherlode, Volume 53 (MP3s) Give the Drummer Some's 6 Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere You just gotta love the ironic touch of naming a nightspot in the the middle of landlocked Iowa the Surf Ballroom. No wild guffaws, though, as we doff fedoras in quiet contemplation of the tragedy , 51 years ago today, that put the Surf on the map. (1) Thirty years after making the experimental film New York Eye and Ear Control , filmmaker/painter/sculptor/wri ter/musician Michael Snow recorded this compelling piano/drum duet with fellow Canadian Jack Vorvis. ••• [...]
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Artist:Almeda Riddle
Title:Worldwide Peace
Link Text:Worldwide Peace
File Name:Riddle_Almeda_-_Worldwide_Peac e.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Artist:Eddie 'One String' Jones
Title:It‚s Raining Here
Link Text:It's Raining Here
File Name:Jones_Eddie_One_String_-_Its_R aining_Here.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1964
Artist:Jack and Mike
Title:Blues In the Clocktower
Link Text:Blues in the Clocktower
File Name:Jack_and_Mike_-_Blues_in_the_C locktower.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps

Sounds Of the South (4) : American Folk Songs For Children

Jun 4, 2009, 3:18pm River's Invitation
Sounds Of the South (4) : American Folk Songs For Children Almeda Riddle - My Little Rooster (1959) In my modest opinion, the fourth disc in the box set Sounds Of The South is musically speaking the least interesting, although it has an undeniable documentary value. Most of the performers were already present on the previous cds, but there are newcomers like Almeda Riddle (photo above), an unacompanied folk singer from Arkansas who sings 5 old nursery rhymes in a traditional way. Among them "My little Rooster", "Frog Went a-Courting" or "Go Tell Aunt Nancy", a song [...]
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Artist:Almeda Riddle
Title:My Little Rooster
Link Text:Almeda Riddle - My Little Rooster
File Name:02-Almeda Riddle - My Little Rooster.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1993
Artist:Johnny Cuckoo
Title:Bessie Jones & Group
Link Text:Bessie Jones & Group - Johnny Cuckoo
File Name:10-Bessie Jones & Group - Johnny Cuckoo.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1993