The Leadbelly Songbook

The Leadbelly Songbook
Title The Leadbelly Songbook PDF eBook
Author Oak Publications
Publisher Oak Publications
Pages 96
Release 2008-07-03
Genre Music
ISBN 1783234261

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More than 70 songs by Huddie Ledbetter, with chord names and musical transcriptions by Jerry Silverman and biographical notes by Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Fred Ramsey, and Charles Smith. Includes: Midnite Special, Backwater Blues, John Henry, and House Of The Rising Sun.

The Leadbelly Songbook

The Leadbelly Songbook
Title The Leadbelly Songbook PDF eBook
Author Leadbelly
Publisher Music Sales
Pages 104
Release 1962
Genre Music
ISBN

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More than 70 songs by Huddie Ledbetter, with chord names and musical transcriptions by Jerry Silverman and biographical notes by Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Fred Ramsey, and Charles Smith. Includes: Midnite Special * Backwater Blues * John Henry * House of the Rising Sun * and more.

A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, Teacher's Guide

A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, Teacher's Guide
Title A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, Teacher's Guide PDF eBook
Author Will Schmid
Publisher R&L Education
Pages 68
Release 1990
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780940796850

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Provides notes on objectives and strategies, ideas for student activities, and all the pages contained in the student textbook, not including the music, as well worksheets and quizzes for students.

Chasing the Rising Sun

Chasing the Rising Sun
Title Chasing the Rising Sun PDF eBook
Author Ted Anthony
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 323
Release 2007-07-13
Genre Music
ISBN 1416539301

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Chasing the Rising Sun is the story of an American musical journey told by a prize-winning writer who traced one song in its many incarnations as it was carried across the world by some of the most famous singers of the twentieth century. Most people know the song "House of the Rising Sun" as 1960s rock by the British Invasion group the Animals, a ballad about a place in New Orleans -- a whorehouse or a prison or gambling joint that's been the ruin of many poor girls or boys. Bob Dylan did a version and Frijid Pink cut a hard-rocking rendition. But that barely scratches the surface; few songs have traveled a journey as intricate as "House of the Rising Sun." The rise of the song in this country and the launch of its world travels can be traced to Georgia Turner, a poor, sixteen-year-old daughter of a miner living in Middlesboro, Kentucky, in 1937 when the young folk-music collector Alan Lomax, on a trip collecting field recordings, captured her voice singing "The Rising Sun Blues." Lomax deposited the song in the Library of Congress and included it in the 1941 book Our Singing Country. In short order, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, and Josh White learned the song and each recorded it. From there it began to move to the planet's farthest corners. Today, hundreds of artists have recorded "House of the Rising Sun," and it can be heard in the most diverse of places -- Chinese karaoke bars, Gatorade ads, and as a ring tone on cell phones. Anthony began his search in New Orleans, where he met Eric Burdon of the Animals. He traveled to the Appalachians -- to eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina -- to scour the mountains for the song's beginnings. He found Homer Callahan, who learned it in the mountains during a corn shucking; he discovered connections to Clarence "Tom" Ashley, who traveled as a performer in a 1920s medicine show. He went to Daisy, Kentucky, to visit the family of the late high-lonesome singer Roscoe Holcomb, and finally back to Bourbon Street to see if there really was a House of the Rising Sun. He interviewed scores of singers who performed the song. Through his own journey he discovered how American traditions survived and prospered -- and how a piece of culture moves through the modern world, propelled by technology and globalization and recorded sound.

Lead Belly

Lead Belly
Title Lead Belly PDF eBook
Author Leadbelly
Publisher
Pages 144
Release 1998
Genre Blues (Music)
ISBN

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Arlo Guthrie

Arlo Guthrie
Title Arlo Guthrie PDF eBook
Author Hank Reineke
Publisher Scarecrow Press
Pages 349
Release 2012-06
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0810883317

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Arlo Guthrie revisits Guthrie's fifteen-year ride as a recording artist. With a look at Guthrie's life and times before and after this prolific period of his career, this biography is a goldmine of information on the Guthrie family's legacy to American music, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the record industry of the 1970s.

Work and Sing

Work and Sing
Title Work and Sing PDF eBook
Author Ronald D. Cohen
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2010
Genre Music
ISBN 9780974412481

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The early decades -- African American songs -- Labor/union songs : part 1 -- The later 1930s and the war years -- The postwar years to 1960 -- Recent decades.