Barking Dog: February 24, 2022
This is the second show from Fundrive 2022.
BF Shelton - Darling Cora
American singer and banjoist who made his living as a barber in Kentucky and travelled to Bristol, Tennessee in 1927 to record at the Bristol Sessions, also known as the “Big Bang” of modern country music
He recorded four songs for these sessions, and did record again in 1928 for Columbia Records, but the second set of recordings did not survive, so these four songs are all we have of his
Mabel Cawthorn - The Dying Girl
Lamont Tilden - The Murder of FC Benwell
Singer a radio announcer from Toronto
Ballad about a famous Ontario murder case that happened in 1890
Willie Dunn - Son of the Sun
Was a Mi’kmaq musician, film director, and politician from Montreal
Judee Sill - There’s a Rugged Road
Fiver - Pile Your Silver
From a 2017 album of fictional field recordings collected from the files of people who were incarcerated at the Rockwood Asylum for the Criminally Insane between 1856 and 1881
John Jackson - Going Up North
He was a piedmont blues musician from Virginia who had given up playing music in his community by the time folklorist Chuck Perdue found him in 1949
Arhoolie Records released his first recordings in the early 60s, and he toured Europe, played folk festivals, and recorded for a few other record companies during that time
Cora Fluker - Move Daniel
Star Thistle - Bigger Than Me
From Winnipeg
Off his debut album, The Best of Star Thistle
Ruby & Oliver Hughes - Lamp Lighting Time in the Valley
Field recording from Tennessee 1936
Leonard Cohen - Passing Through
Recorded live in London in 1972
Angelo Dornan - When I Wake in the Morning
From the folklorist Helen Creighton’s field recording collections
Sam Chatmon - Stop and Listen Blues
Was a delta blues guitarist and singer
Recorded this version for some blues music collectors in 1980
Stanley Triggs - So Long to the Kicking Horse Canyon
The Kicking Horse Canyon lies between Golden and Lake Louise in BC, and Triggs adapted that song himself from an old cowboy tune after a rough time pouring concrete with a construction gang in minus 42 degree weather
Sam Amidon - Spanish Merchant’s Daughter
From Vermont
Stan Rogers - Barrett’s Privateers
Delma Lachney - Je M’En Vas Dans Le Chemin
Lachney was a Louisiana fiddler of French-Canadian descent
This was recorded in 1929 for Vocalion
Stuart M Frank - Paddy on the Railway
An author who writes about maritime traditions and folklore
Preston Fulp - Banks of the Ohio
He was a North Carolina artist who worked in sawmills for much of his life, playing music on weekends and at special events in the community
This is a 19th century murder ballad, likely American in origin
Differs from other murder ballads because the murderer spends much of the song expressing his regret and sadness
Pete Seeger - Come All You Fair and Tender Maids
Harrison Kennedy, Jean-Jacques Milteau, Vincent Segal - Judgment Day
Reverend Pearly Brown - It’s a Mean Old World to Try to Live In
He was a blues musician from Georgia who was known mainly as a street performer
Off his 1975 album of the same name
Selah Jubilee Singers - I’ll Fly Away
An American gospel vocal quartet active from 1927-1953
They recorded this in February 1941
Wataru Takada & Hill Top Strings Band - Whiskey Song
Takada was a Japanese folk musician who came from a family of artists and activists, and who was active in the Kansai folk movement which began in the late 1960s
That version of “Rye Whiskey” was from the 1977 album Bourbon Street Blues, recorded with The Hilltop Strings Band, which he formed with Junpei Sakuma
The song is also known as “Way Up on Clinch Mountain” and “Jack of Diamonds”
Wu Fei, Abigail Washburn - Ho Hey / Cluck Old Hen
Washburn a well-known contemporary banjo player from Illinois
Wu Fei a composer and musician from Beijing who now lives in the US
They released their first album together in 2020, which combines American and Chinese folk music
Taj Mahal, Toumani Diabate - Catfish Blues
Taj Mahal is a Grammy-award-winning blues musician from New York City whose career has spanned over 50 years
Toumani Diabate is a Malian kora player who performs both the traditional music of Mali and collaborates across genres with musicians from around the globe
This is from their album Kulanjan from 1999
The Foc’sle Singers - Haul on the Bowline
Ella Mae Wilson, Lillie B Williams, Richard Williams - Do Lord, Remember Me
Josh White - Fare Thee Well
Extremely successful musician who started playing music in the late 20s and gained fame as a blues, jazz, and folk musician, as well as a film and Broadway actor
Snooks Eaglin - Fly Right Baby
Eaglin an American musician who played a wide range of styles and claimed to know about 2500 songs
Willie Thrasher - Silent Inuit
Joseph Spence - Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer
Jake Xerxes Fussell - Love Farewell
