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Thread #6803   Message #2920993
Posted By: pdq
04-Jun-10 - 09:54 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Spring Hill Disaster (Maurice Ruddick)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spring Hill Disaster (Maurice Ruddick)
In 1992, Rounder Records released a CD called "The Early Years 1957*1958" which collects 19 songs from that time. This is as close as Bill Clifton came to Bluegrass, but still has lots of his Country-Folk and a few Tin Pan Alley tunes.

There is seldom a problem picking up a copy from eBay.

As mentioned before, the song was written by Clifton with the exception of the phrase "give me some water and I'll sing you a song", which was from the miner Maurice Ruddick, and the phrase "in that dark, black hole in the ground", which came from Paul Clayton.