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Fragments of yesteryear /

As a youth, I obtained a scratchy old 78rpm record of ""The Prisoner's Song"" sung by Vernon Dalhart. I also sang and, and sang and played American Folk songs on an old acoustic guitar with a harmonica rest strapped around my neck. It was at that time that I wondered, who we...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morritt, Robert D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Table of contents; foreword; preface; early country music
  • origins; transition
  • folk ballads to commercial recordings; first country recording; early ballads
  • origins; early recordings; who wrote that song?; billy boy; fond affection; the ocean dead; the ocean burial; bury me not on the lone prairie; the gypsy's warning; in the shadow of the pine; louisville burglar; the old chisholm trail; when the work's all done this fall; i'd like to be in texas for the roundup in the spring; a flower from my angel mother's grave; by the old oaken bucket, louise; wild bill jones; bright sherman valley.
  • The cowboy's dreamoh, for the wild and woolly west; wreck of the six wheeler; 'long side of the santa fe trail; when the moon shines down upon the mountain; the hill billies; sweet bunch of daisies; goebel reeves; the grave by the whispering pine; edward l. crain; god pity the life of a cowboy; rambling red foley; the lone cowboy; homer callahan; i've rode the southern and the l & n; ernest v. stoneman; kenny wagner's surrender; she's a flower from the fields of alabama; frank marvin; when the moon comes over the mountain; frank luther; the death of jesse james; mcfarland and gardner.
  • The eastbound trainpatt patterson and lois dexter; on the red river shore; martin and roberts; old homestead by the sea; roy harvey; there'll come a time; cliff carlisle; cowboy johnnie's last ride; john dillinger; dwight butcher and the song john dillinger; moonlight and skies; blue-eyed ellen; elton britt; the capture of albert johnson; awaiting the chair; my old canadian home; the old civil war ledger; my ships; to him who marries; a warning to young ladies; the things in the bottom drawer; september; i'm hurried child; his last run; wapping old stairs; honest abe; barbara allen.