The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #46310   Message #3889134
Posted By: Lighter
18-Nov-17 - 11:28 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Saint James Infirmary Blues
Subject: RE: Origin: Saint James Infirmary Blues
Great work, Brian. That would have taken me a week.

>hard to imagine there was much traffic between the Appalachians and the Canadian Maritimes...in the 1910s

Speaking as one with some knowledge of the Southern Appalachians (pronounced "Appa-LATCH-uns, unlike those in the north), there must have been roughly none.