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Various folk music artists included "O, Death" on musical collections throughout the 1970s and 1980s. [10] It is sung in the 1976 Barbara Kopple documentary Harlan County, USA by early union activist and coal miner Nimrod Workman , a well known folk music singer from Mingo County , West Virginia .
Lloyd Chandler (1896–1978) was an American Appalachian Folk musician and Free Will Baptist preacher from Madison County, North Carolina.. Research has asserted that Chandler is the writer of "O, Death", a song featured on the acclaimed O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. [1]
All the members of O'Death met between the years of 2000 and 2003 at SUNY Purchase.With Greg Jamie on guitar and vocals, Gabe Darling on electric guitar, ukulele, piano, and vocals, David Rogers-Berry on drums, Robert Pycior on violin, and Andrew Platt on bass - O'Death put together a very raw, 10-track CD-R, entitled Carl Nemelka Family Photographs, [2] recorded by Joshua Benash (of the bands ...
The album is composed of Appalachian folk music recordings gathered by musicologist John Cohen in North Carolina and Virginia in 1965. The album was originally released in 1975. In 1995, Rounder re-released the album with an additional twenty minutes of bonus tracks, and omission of the track 'Old Jimmy Sutton' played by Estil C. Ball & Wade ...
Documentarian D. A. Pennebaker, director of such musical documentary films as Dont Look Back and Monterey Pop, co-directed Down from the Mountain.. The concert portion of the film is preceded by a 30-minute section in which the various artists are seen rehearsing for the show, doing soundchecks, and talking backstage at the Ryman Auditorium.
The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the Child Ballads), but others have high ones. Some of the songs were also included in the collection Jacobite Reliques by Scottish poet and novelist ...
A Ukrainian version of the folk song has the same name "Two sisters" and also known by the song's first line "Ой, світив місяць ще й дві зорі" meaning "The moon and two stars are shining." The story is about the older sister who was jealous about the beauty of the younger sister so she tricked the younger sister to come ...
In July 1959, the Stanley Brothers performed the song at the Newport Folk Festival, [27] which brought the song to the attention of other folk singers. It led to a number of recordings of the song in the 1960s, most notably by Joan Baez (1960), [ 28 ] Bob Dylan (1961), Judy Collins (1961), and Peter, Paul and Mary (1962).