The wobbly anthem composed by Joe Hill to the tune of Sweet bye & bye. A song who's time has come again. I haven't been able to get this tune out of my head since the advent of the current financial crisis. My parents and their friends used to sing it. Elizabeth Cotton, Gary Davis, Big Bill and Joseph Spence inform the playing. Unfortunately I'm down with an all winter sinus infection so my vocals are not exactly up to snuff, though they are up to sniff?
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The Gary Davis influence is, of course, very strong in your playing.
The only comment I would offer (and I hesitate to do so to such an accomplished player) is that I often wished for a bit of a lighter touch, especially on the bass side.
Well, this is the first of your tunes I've had the pleasure to listen to. I've got some listening to do!
is that I often wished for a bit of a lighter touch, especially on the bass side.
For reasons seemingly beyond my control my "lighter touch" disappears the minute I get in front of a mic. I also had to EQ this cut a bit to make the frog croak voice audible. But thanks for the good words.
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Great, as always, O'Muck. Great playing, great song, great thumbs and fingers. Singing is a pleasure as well. You sound like his Bobness (and I mean that in the best of ways).
Just great, Mr. O. It's for all of us, who, when we hear someone say, "Time to get back to basics!" think to ourselves, "WTF??--I never left basics..."
Excellent. Do you take requests? How about another IWW anthem "Hallelujah On The Bum" which my parents owned on a Victor 78 sung by Harry McClintock! It was a favourite in our house - my younger brother and I thought it was "naughty" because of the bum word, therefore asked it to be played ad nauseam.
Maybe that guitar I bought from U. Utah Phillips in '72 had a wobbly spell on it, and now that he's dead! He who posses it is compelled to play the IWW song book through out eternity! I certainly know the song, though I always thought it was Hallelujah I'M a bum. I'll look up the words and see what I can do. But I'll be visualizing my favorite 'Bumms" while playing it in your honor BH.
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Fantastic! You did a great job of pulling off a wobbly tune and not sounding "folky". It reminded me of Michael Hurley. Keep it coming. Happy New Year, Todd
Thank you sir. I am a longtime Snockman fan and we have hoisted a few together over the years. I even managed to drop Michael's guitar on the stage of Gerdes' Folk City one enchanted inebriated evening. I think a bunch of us were up there palying as often happened back in the day. It didn't break though. Nice ol' Gibson non cutaway electric. Ever hear his first record on Folkways? Good!
Just wonderful, great arrangement. it is a great song, but isn't the title 'the preacher and the slave'? I remember Utah singing this as well, and of course he did a great version of "Hallelujah I'm a Bum"
It saddens me greatly that so little has changed in the last 100 years.
The old song that sticks in my mind is 'the strangest dream' by Ed McCurdy, but I play it with a flatpick.
oh, love the singing. I like the rough way you play guitar very much.