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Thread #35233   Message #769875
Posted By: Stewie
22-Aug-02 - 07:38 PM
Thread Name: Help: Age of 'East Virginia'?
Subject: RE: Help: Age of 'East Virginia'?
Dicho, my pleasure. Kazee's later recording for Folkways was even shorter - he dropped the second stanza.

Richie, I take it the Seeger solo version differs from what I posted - I can't help you with the Vanguard recording. Thanks for posting 'Awake, Awake'. The 'lone valley' stanza (6) seems to be a floater from the 'Little Sparrow'/Willow Tree versions of 'Fair and Tender Ladies' which were referred to in a recent thread. Dillard Chandler recorded a version of 'Awake, Awake' on his Folkways album 'Old Love Songs and Ballads' (unfortunately I don't have it) and he also has a willow tree stanza.

I have an interesting 1929 recording of 'Drowsy Sleeper' by Wilmer Watts and His Lonely Eagles under the title 'Sleepy Desert'. I will have a go at transcribing it later but, since it is reissued from a Paramount 78 (and most sides from that label sound like they were recorded under water and pressed on corrugated cardboard), there may be a number of gaps.

That Peter Tork was certainly a creative lad!

--Stewie.