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Size: 323kb, uploaded 9/29/2010 9:14:50 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
fateful days deserve melodic tribute
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Size: 3,299kb, uploaded 9/25/2011 2:06:28 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A song of adultery and vengeance. OR an Irish Folk Ballad.
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Size: 1,378kb, uploaded 6/22/2012 8:45:55 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Playing w/ backup track
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Size: 1,783kb, uploaded 9/24/2011 7:34:25 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
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Size: 1,600kb, uploaded 5/6/2012 12:10:38 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
It sounds like it's a song of the wild west but it is not. It's a song about Buffalo in the days of the Erie Canal, the Buffalo Gals being the hookers parading on Canal Street, which was lined with brothels (and, since it was the end of the Canal line, lavish corporate headquarters of rail and shipping companies). The tune, originally known as "Lubly White," and attributed to one of the first black-faced minstrels, Cool White (John White), clearly was not written by White. As "Midnight Serenade," some of the same versions and the tune appeared in print in 1839. It has been traced to an English song, "Pray, Pretty Miss," and to an older German music hall song, "Im Grunewald, im Grunewald ist Holzauktion." The Buffalo Gals lyric came about when the tune was used for a canal song, and some speculate that the words became "New York Gals," "Rochester Gals," or whatever town the canalmen happened to be passing through. In parts of Virginia and West Virginia, it's called "Round Town Gals." There was also an early hillbilly version called "Alabama Gals." Alan and John Lomax found a version called "As I Walked Down on Broadway." White copyrighted the song in 1844. Exactly a century later, it became a hit as "Dance with the Dolly." Two years later, Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed sang it while prancing down the street in It's a Wonderful Life. Almost forty years later, Sex Pistols impresario Malcolm McLaren and the World's Famous Supreme Team did a very early hip-hop version whose video featuring kids from the Bronx helped initiate the break-dancing craze of 1982. Among those who've recorded "Buffalo Gals" are Roy Acuff, Rosemary Clooney, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Oscar Brand and Eliza Gilkyson. Pete Seeger's rendition is on American Favorite Ballads (not to be confused with American Favorite Ballads Vol. 1, 2 or 3.)
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Size: 1,014kb, uploaded 9/29/2011 7:04:07 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by roller24
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Size: 753kb, uploaded 9/24/2011 7:33:33 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by roller24
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Size: 505kb, uploaded 9/29/2010 8:53:38 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
learning, learinging, learned.
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