Archive: December 2013 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Stephanie Hall; (Year) 2013; (Month) December

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Songs of the Winter Season Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell

December 19, 2013

There are many examples of songs of the winter season available among the online presentations from the American Folklife Center’s archive, but the largest group of these is found in California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties, a documentary project of the California Work Projects Administration headed by Sidney Robertson Cowell from 1938 …

Posted in: Folksong, Holidays, Sidney Robertson Cowell

The Life and Times of Boll Weevil

December 11, 2013

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

The first time I saw Boll Weevil, He was sitting on a cotton square. The next time I saw Boll Weevil, He had his whole family there. This song about the boll weevil is one of many popularized by Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter, Woody Guthrie, and other artists. A version of this most widely known …

Posted in: Animals, Folk Music, Folksong, John Lomax, John Wesley Work III, Ruby Terrill Lomax

Refined by: (Author) Stephanie Hall; (Year) 2013; (Month) December