Forbidden from playing music, a young Elizabeth Cotten — born in 1893 in what is now part of Carrboro — secretly borrowed her brother’s banjo and guitar. She flipped the instruments upside down to ...
Callahan Brothers. side 1: Freight Train Blues; side 2: Gonna Quit Drinkin' When I Die (Conqueror 8731). 78 rpm. Both tracks were originally recorded in 1936 and released on various American Record ...
In a fascinating but depressing story recently published in the Missoulian, writer Colin McDonald chronicles the ruination of freight-riding, a long and honorable American tradition. Hopping trains, ...
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