{"id":183,"date":"2016-02-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2017-10-12T19:22:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T23:22:33","slug":"the-millers-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/the-millers-will\/","title":{"rendered":"The Miller\u2019s Will (Sam Hinton)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Miller&#039;s Will\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W-tGFK-99vs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of many songs about the rapacity of millers, notorious back to Chaucer&#8217;s time and probably long before.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the singers who became my personal models and heroes, there were some\u00a0 I just happened to see in concert, or who recorded a song or album that caught my fancy. I think I first heard <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/sam-hinton.jpg?resize=250%2C224\" alt=\"sam hinton\" width=\"250\" height=\"224\" \/>Sam Hinton on a Newport Folk Festival LP, where he did &#8220;The Arkansas Traveler,&#8221; playing the fiddle part on harmonica. (I later learned that he held the harmonica in his mouth without a holder, while simultaneously playing guitar.) 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