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Thread #161036 Message #3823708
Posted By: GUEST,Julia L
30-Nov-16 - 03:10 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Bill Seymour Bold Seaman pirate ballad
Subject: RE: Origins: Bill Seymour Bold Seaman pirate ballad
YAY! You are an ACE! very cool
Just FYI, I am transcribing all of the Maine material in the Flanders collection- about 900 songs. Started with the maritime/ nautical stuff and I'm almost finished with that.I was going over to Middlebury periodically ( a two day commitment from midcoast Maine) and they actually provided me with Mp3 files. I'll be publishing the first book in a series in the summer.
The recordings are now all online at archive.org. A warning- they are mostly pretty "compromised" and the index is not always accurate. Still, there's good stuff there from all over New England.