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The Saint Patrick's Regional Secondary Men's Chamber Choir did a cover of the song during a cultural exchange event in 2006 in Vancouver, BC. [10] The American quintet Bounding Main released a cover of the song on their 2006 album Lost at Sea. [11] UK's sea shanty band Kimber's Men released a cover of the song on their 2010 album. [12]
Charles Thomas "Stompin' Tom" Connors, OC (February 9, 1936 – March 6, 2013) was a Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter. Focusing his career exclusively on his native Canada, he is credited with writing more than 300 songs and has released four dozen albums, with total sales of nearly four million copies.
"Black Gold" is a 1993 single performed by Minneapolis rock band Soul Asylum. The song was written by Soul Asylum's lead singer Dave Pirner. It was the second single from their album Grave Dancers Union. The music video for the song was directed by American filmmaker Zack Snyder, who also directed the "Somebody to Shove" videoclip.
Nirvana's MTV Unplugged version of the song has earned Cobain acclaim from critics and other musicians and artists. In 1994, American poet Allen Ginsberg recalled that "a couple weeks ago, one of my students gave me a mixed tape of Kurt Cobain and there was a version of 'Black Girl' of great artistry. Great vocal control and subtlety, it's ...
"Highway Song" is a 1979 hit song recorded by the American southern rock Blackfoot. It reached #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 . The song was recorded in the key of E minor with no key changes throughout.
(The live versions between 1962 and 1964 were also played that way, but without the harmonica.) According to Michael Gray , the guitar work and melodic structuring in "Hollis Brown" are taken from the Appalachians , "where such forms and modes had evolved, in comparative isolation, over a period of almost two hundred years". [ 1 ]
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His last stanza ends with the line "Fourteen miles to the Cumberland Gap." [6] This last line would appear again in a 1933 field recording of the song by an obscure Harlan, Kentucky fiddler known as "Blind" James Howard, and published by John Lomax (who conducted the recording) in his 1934 book, American Ballads and Folk Songs. [6] [7]