"OLD BILL" as done by Bob Gibson is on a CD. Joy Joy!The Young And Wonderful Bob Gibson

This is Volume one of the Riverside Folklore Series.

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(Folks, when I use the word "arrangement" I am just talking about the basic chord structure of a song. No other personal traits are in what I'm referring to. In OLD BILL the switch back and forth between, say, a "C" chord and an "a" minor chord. I don't think Mr. VanRonk took others arrangements----but that pattern of switching those two chords throughout the verse surely wasn't in Sandburg's droll rendering of the song. It was in Bob Gibson's version----and also in Dave's version a few years later. Gibson's was "picked" and Van Ronk's was heavily strummed if I'm remembering it correctly.)

Art Thieme