As we ready ourselves to play two shows with Jerry Douglas at the Old Town School of Folk Music next Saturday, here’s a wee snippet from a previous performance there. The tune is Ginseng Blues, from Where You Been So Long, and the recording is from November, 2006.
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Our friend The Mayor of Bucktown plays some nice harmonica on this one. The yodeling is crap, sadly, but most of the rest is pretty decent. One other aside: for years I sang the last verse as “Ain’t gonna work on the river, ain’t gonna load no boat.” I recently heard a better transfer of the old Kentucky Ramblers record I learned it from, and the verse is, clear as day, “Ain’t gonna work on no tipple, ain’t gonna load no coal. I guess ‘tipple’ sort of sounds like ‘river’.
Courtesy of Archive.org. If you like, you can download the whole show there.