Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Cripple Creek" is an Appalachian-style old time tune and folk song, often played on the fiddle or banjo, listed as number 3434 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The lyrics are probably no older than the year 1900, and the tune is of unknown origin.
Arkansas Traveler is an alternative folk album released by American singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked in 1992. Her fourth album for Mercury Records, the songs focused around the roots of her music.
Banjo Bonanza (1983) — with Bobby Thompson & The Cripple Creek Quartet; Final Chapter (1986) Family and Friends (1989) The Golden Guitar of Don Reno (2000) — previously unreleased recordings made in November 1972 with Bill Harrell and Buck Ryan
This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some publishers have added Roud numbers to books and liner notes, as has also been done with Child Ballad numbers and Laws numbers.
Influential recordings by Strothers include his versions of "Cripple Creek" [4] and "Good Shepherd", the latter entitled "The Blood-Strained Banders" on the Lomax recording. [5] Strothers's version of "Good Shepherd" was the basis for the Jefferson Airplane's recording on their album Volunteers .
Dr. Thomas O’Brien and his wife Ruth Reardon O’Brien, the parents of late night comedian Conan O’Brien, have died three days apart. Thomas was 95 and Ruth was 92. The couple were married 66 ...
Banjo music originated informally as a form of African folk music over a hundred years ago probably in the sub-Saharan region. When the Americans forced African slaves to work on the plantations, banjo music followed them, and stayed primarily a form of African folk music, up to the 1800s.
The Cripple Creek Caravan’s tribute to “The Last Waltz” is at 7 p.m. Nov. 27 at The Tarlton Theatre in downtown Green Bay. Doors open at 5 p.m. Tickets are $30 for concert only or $45 with ...