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Charlie Baum Lyr Add: Soldier's Horse (Child 299) (6) RE: Lyr Add: Soldier's Horse (Child 299) 03 May 20


The reference to C.C. “Lum” Pack was drawn from Helena Faust (Triplett)’s liner notes about where in the Louis Chappell collection of folk music she found it. (Helena Faust was then married to Jimmy Triplett of West Virginia at the time, but subsequently divorced, returned to her native New Zealand, and took back her maiden name.) A year or two after I made that Mudcat posting, Lisa Null and I went out to Morgantown, WV, to spend a few days browsing through the Chappell collection ourselves. We even made copies of the dubs of more than a dozen singers we admired. In reviewing those recordings, I discovered that the version Helena Faust sang has elements of Lum Pack’s version, but is much closer to a version by Oscar Morgan of Sandyville, Jackson County, West Virginia.


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