{"id":1753,"date":"2016-07-08T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2017-09-02T11:35:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T15:35:11","slug":"columbus-stockade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/columbus-stockade-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Stockade (Woody and Cisco)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8xWJGhP9S0U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the pleasures of playing on the street with Rob was that I had a second voice on the choruses of my favorite<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/hard-aint-hard\/\"> Woody Guthrie &#8211; Cisco Houston duets<\/a>. I&#8217;d spent the previous couple of years learning blues and other stuff that lent itself to fingerstyle guitar,\u00a0 but I never lost my taste for the Woody\/Cisco sound,<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1838 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/woody-and-cisco-300x270.jpg?resize=300%2C270\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/woody-and-cisco.jpg?resize=300%2C270&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/woody-and-cisco.jpg?w=310&amp;ssl=1 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> and it had even become a matter of principle for me. I felt like a lot of the blues revivalists I liked had started out with Woody, Cisco, and Pete Seeger, but abandoned that music when they got into blues, and I understood the temptation but didn&#8217;t want to give in to it.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, I really like Woody Guthrie&#8217;s music &#8212; his guitar playing, his harmonica playing, his singing, even his fiddling &#8212; and he had good taste in songs. In a slightly alternate reality, if he hadn&#8217;t succumbed to Huntington&#8217;s disease, it is easy to imagine him at Newport in the 1960s jamming with other folk revival discoveries from the Southwest like Mance Lipscomb, who <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1756\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/woody-sonny-and-brownie-300x243.jpg?resize=300%2C243\" alt=\"woody, sonny, and brownie\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/woody-sonny-and-brownie.jpg?resize=300%2C243&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/woody-sonny-and-brownie.jpg?w=375&amp;ssl=1 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>had a similarly broad repertoire and similar experience playing a wide range of regional blues and dance tunes.<\/p>\n<p>For another thing, this was the music I started on, and it continues to feel natural in ways some of the styles I picked up later never will. I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m better at it (honestly, I could never make a flatpick behave the way I wanted) or that it&#8217;s better suited to a kid from Cambridge, Massachusetts, but I&#8217;ve been playing it since I was seven or eight years old, and it&#8217;s part of me.<\/p>\n<p>For a third, people always liked it. I might think of it as less sophisticated, or less complex, or more hokey and folky than the blues and ragtime I was picking up from Van Ronk and afterwards, but whenever I played something like &#8220;Columbus Stockade,&#8221; there were a few people who reacted like, &#8220;OK, this I really like!&#8221; And not always the people I expected.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, in a lot of moods, I&#8217;m one of those people myself. I like Jelly Roll Morton and Ornette Coleman, or Charley Poole and Merle Haggard, or Pablo Casals and Aretha Franklin for different reasons and in different moods, and I&#8217;m glad to be able to listen to all of them. So, as a matter of principle, I didn&#8217;t want the fact that I&#8217;d learned to play &#8220;Maple Leaf Rag&#8221; to mean I stopped playing &#8220;Columbus Stockade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Besides all of which, for most folk\/roots musicians of roughly my generation this was a common language. Bill Morrissey and I used to sing these songs together and talked about doing some gigs with this repertoire, and I never asked Paul Geremia or Dave Van Ronk if they knew &#8220;Columbus Stockade,&#8221; but I&#8217;m sure they did, because we all did. Whatever our later musical journeys, this was where pretty much all of us started, and it remained a good foundation and a style we could all sing together.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to the beginning of this post, and the\u00a0 pleasure of singing on the streets with a good partner, which I still get now and then, and which always makes me think of Woody and Cisco.<\/p>\n<p>(If you haven&#8217;t read Jim Longhi&#8217;s book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780252022760\">Woody, Cisco, and Me<\/a><\/em>, I recommend it enthusiastically and without reservation &#8212; to me, it is the ultimate evocation of those two men and what made them so special, including but by no means limited to the music.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the pleasures of playing on the street with Rob was that I had a second voice on the choruses of my favorite Woody Guthrie &#8211; Cisco Houston duets. 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