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This recent cover of Stephen Foster's "Hard Times" by the legendary Mavis Staples blows me away. 🎶
"For me and for many others, it’s Foster’s finest work. The song is untainted by dialect, with a memorable tune and powerful lyrics, and I have found it a salve during recent hard times."
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The Father of American Pop Music Turns 200
Stephen Foster’s songs became ubiquitous—people sometimes mistook them for folk songs even during his lifetime—and were performed everywhere from back porches to opera houses, in every genre imaginable.
“The melody just gets so deep down in you. It’s like the trunk of a tree, or the roots of the tree, and then you can start climbing around up there.”
#Music #DavidAGraham #StephenFoster #BillFrisell #MavisStaples #America
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It’s Stephen Foster Stakes day at Churchill Downs! 🐎
Prints & accessories available-
> https://cac-graphics.pixels.com/featured/churchill-downs-barbaro-2-cac-graphics.html
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...and while we're on the subject of tonight's political Topic A, here's some #StephenFoster for ya....
Transport Myself Rearwards to Old Virginia
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On 13 Jan 1864: #StephenFoster, American #composer (Oh! Susanna; Swanee River; Beautiful Dreamer), died in New York City at 37 [reports vary as to fever, accident, suicide, or some combination].
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While writing Bandcamp notes for album 11 "The Serfville Monad and the Pluperfect People," I gave a listen to the beautiful old-timey “Hard Times Come Again No More”. Performed by the “Anonymous 4” and Bruce Molsky. It's from the album “1865: Songs of Hope and Home from the American Civil War (Bonus Track Version)”
#Folk #FolkMusic #OldTimey (it seems this tag is rarely or never used. That's a shame.) #BruceMolsky #TheAnonymous4
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That's what Stephen Foster was famous for, and then got parodied with "A Birdseye View Of My Old Kentucky Home".
