Help find thread - Texas Rivers

Subject: Help find thread - Texas Rivers Song
From: Tiger
Date: 12 May 99 - 02:13 PM

A while back, we discussed the Texas Rivers Song. Sandy said he recorded it. I know I posted to the thread and am pretty sure the lyrics were there, too.

Now, for the life of me, I can't find it (CRS).

Since the thread search isn't working, can anyone give me a prod?

Thanx.....Tiger

Subject: RE: Help find thread - Texas Rivers
From: folk1234
Date: 12 May 99 - 02:32 PM

Tiger: Sandy and Caroline did "The Rivers of Texas" on their "Folksongs and Ballads" album recorded oh so many years ago. You can find it at (blue thingy) www.folklegacy.com (end blue thingy). The all-to-modest Sandy and the lovely Caroline really should publish more of their own stuff; its great. They also should publish a song book of all the wonderful music they have collected, and the songs that others have recorded under their label. How about it Mr. Paton?

Subject: RE: Help find thread - Texas Rivers
From: Bruce from Bathurst
Date: 12 May 99 - 10:39 PM

'The Rivers of Texas' is on Bill Staines' album 'The Whistle of the Jay'. CD-70 on Folk-Legacy, sure enough.

Bruce

Subject: RE: Help find thread - Texas Rivers
From: campfire
Date: 12 May 99 - 10:48 PM

The search works for thread subject (which, of course, if you knew, you wouldn't be searching now, would you?) and also for USER NAME. If you posted to the thread under your user name, it should come up in that search. Maybe reading the list of thread titles you posted to would help jog your memory.

campfire

Subject: RE: Help find thread - Texas Rivers
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 12 May 99 - 10:51 PM

Rivers of Texas is in Digitrad. TRy a search for [Rivers of Texas]

Subject: RE: Help find thread - Texas Rivers
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 12 May 99 - 10:58 PM

Everyone ought to look at the song in the Randolph collection Ozark Folksongs. Vance Randolph collected the song from Irene Carlisle, the only time it has turned up in tradition. Most of us sing it with slightly altered words, keeping the chorus consistent to enable audiences to sing along. The original version had variable chorus lines. Staines did record it for us, not realizing that we had also recorded it (a bit differently) a decade earlier. I think I may have told the story in an earlier thread, but Vance Randolph told me that he had searched for other versions of the song in every folksong collection or songster he could lay his hands on, and finally approached Irene, asking, "C'mon, Irene! Didn't you write that song?" She insisted that she had learned it from a young Texan who boarded at her home in the Ozarks some years before. It remains unique in the tradition, although others have re-written it for the rivers of their own home region. Art can tell you about the one for the State of Illinois. I know of one for West Virginia, but don't have those words now. I'm sure there are others. The words as we recorded them are in the DT. Just put [Down by the Brazos] in the box up there and you'll find them easily. But, seriously, look at the original and get the words right!

Sandy

Subject: RE: Help find thread - Texas Rivers
From: Tiger
Date: 13 May 99 - 07:01 AM

Thanks, all, for the refresher.

Subject: RE: Help find thread - Texas Rivers
From: Barry Finn
Date: 13 May 99 - 06:08 PM

I got this off an old long gone friend, Rob Joel, loved it since I first heard it but I don't think I've head it done better than when Skip Gorman does it. Barry

Subject: RE: Help find thread - Texas Rivers
From: Tiger
Date: 13 May 99 - 09:08 PM

While we're at it, this is where I first heard the song. You can hear a good clip of it by Richard Dobson at:

......Tiger

Subject: RE: Help find thread - Texas Rivers
From: Tiger
Date: 13 May 99 - 09:09 PM

Well, wher'd the blue thingie go?

You can hear a good clip of it by Richard Dobson at:

http://www.songs.com/brambus/rd/rd-txrivers.mp2