{"id":3338,"date":"2018-01-13T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2018-01-13T10:18:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T15:18:40","slug":"rivers-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rivers of Texas\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7J1OoW4ydhw?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>This was one of my standards in the late 1980s, because I loved the sound of a room full of people singing the chorus. I learned it from volume two of the <em>Everybody Sing!<\/em> LPs I had when I was a little kid,\u00a0 where it was sung by <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3340 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Everybody-sing-songs-for-juniors-300x299.jpg?resize=300%2C299\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Everybody-sing-songs-for-juniors.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Everybody-sing-songs-for-juniors.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Ellen Steckert and Milt Okun, and for a long time I forgot about it because after I\u00a0 got into Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, and blues I tended to dismiss the songs on those albums as pseudo-folk juvenalia. I don&#8217;t remember when or why I revised my opinion &#8212; maybe I heard someone like Ian Tyson sing it &#8212; but anyway it became one of my favorites, especially when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/shake-sugaree\/\">Peter Keane<\/a> was around to sing harmony.<\/p>\n<p>Steckert learned this song from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/the-millers-will\/\">Sam Hinton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/the-millers-will\/\">who has cropped up before<\/a> in these chronicles, and he presumably learned it from Vance Randolph&#8217;s monumental collection <em>Ozark Folksongs<\/em>. Randolph recorded it in 1942 from a woman named Irene Carlisle in Fayetteville, Arkansas, who had grown up in the area and was herself a folklorist with several academic articles and an MA degree on her resume.<\/p>\n<p>Sandy Paton writes on the Mudcat folksong website that he thought this sounded like a composed song rather than something from the oral tradition and asked Randolph, and Randolph said he&#8217;d had similar suspicions and asked Carlisle if she&#8217;d written it herself. She said no: &#8220;I learned it in 1921 from a hired man. He&#8217;d come up from Texas, cutting timber here in the Ozarks, and was boarding at our place. We courted a little, and he taught me that song. Then he went back to Texas.&#8221; Whether the hired man had composed it or learned it from someone else, he must have been close to the source, since no other version has ever been collected.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3344 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rivers-of-texas-map2.jpg?resize=346%2C346\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rivers-of-texas-map2.jpg?w=501&amp;ssl=1 501w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rivers-of-texas-map2.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rivers-of-texas-map2.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/>Another poster on that Mudcat thread cleared up a long-running geographical conundrum: the list of rivers in Randolph&#8217;s lyric includes the Natchez, which isn&#8217;t a river and isn&#8217;t in Texas, and Hinton, who was a Texan (born in Oklahoma, but raised in Crockett, TX), adapted that to Nacogdoches, which is in Texas but still isn&#8217;t a river (and doesn&#8217;t scan with the melody). However, the Mudcatter points out that there is a Neches River which flows through more than 400 miles of Texas. So the hired hand presumably sang &#8220;Neches&#8221; and Carlisle, being more familiar with Mississippi towns than Texas rivers, misheard it as &#8220;Natchez&#8221; &#8212; which doesn&#8217;t explain why Hinton, who grew up 30 miles from the Neches and would have had to cross it to reach Nacogdoches, didn&#8217;t make the correction.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s a pretty song and I just wish Peter was around to sing harmony.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3507 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/me-and-Peter-Rivers-of-Texas.jpg?resize=474%2C322\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/me-and-Peter-Rivers-of-Texas.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/me-and-Peter-Rivers-of-Texas.jpg?resize=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was one of my standards in the late 1980s, because I loved the sound of a room full of people singing the chorus. I learned it from volume two of the Everybody Sing! LPs I had when I was a little kid,\u00a0 where it was sung by Ellen Steckert and Milt Okun, and for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rivers of Texas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rivers of Texas - Old Friends: A Songobiography<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rivers of Texas - Old Friends: A Songobiography\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This was one of my standards in the late 1980s, because I loved the sound of a room full of people singing the chorus. I learned it from volume two of the Everybody Sing! LPs I had when I was a little kid,\u00a0 where it was sung by Ellen Steckert and Milt Okun, and for &hellip; Continue reading Rivers of Texas &rarr;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Old Friends: A Songobiography\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-01-13T06:00:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-01-13T15:18:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Everybody-sing-songs-for-juniors-300x299.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Elijah Wald\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ElijahWald\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ElijahWald\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Elijah Wald\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/rivers-of-texas\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/rivers-of-texas\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Elijah Wald\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/20e4f69f2f284ea0ff728a9d1b7720a9\"},\"headline\":\"Rivers of Texas\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-01-13T06:00:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-01-13T15:18:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/rivers-of-texas\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":471,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/20e4f69f2f284ea0ff728a9d1b7720a9\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/rivers-of-texas\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/Everybody-sing-songs-for-juniors-300x299.jpg\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/rivers-of-texas\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/rivers-of-texas\\\/\",\"name\":\"Rivers of Texas - Old Friends: A Songobiography\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/rivers-of-texas\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/rivers-of-texas\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/Everybody-sing-songs-for-juniors-300x299.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-01-13T06:00:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-01-13T15:18:40+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/rivers-of-texas\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/rivers-of-texas\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/rivers-of-texas\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/Everybody-sing-songs-for-juniors-300x299.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/Everybody-sing-songs-for-juniors-300x299.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/rivers-of-texas\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Rivers of Texas\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Old Friends: A Songobiography\",\"description\":\"Revisiting the songs that have made a home in my head\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/20e4f69f2f284ea0ff728a9d1b7720a9\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/20e4f69f2f284ea0ff728a9d1b7720a9\",\"name\":\"Elijah Wald\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i1.wp.com\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/12\\\/elijahbut.jpg?fit=70%2C85&ssl=1\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i1.wp.com\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/12\\\/elijahbut.jpg?fit=70%2C85&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i1.wp.com\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/12\\\/elijahbut.jpg?fit=70%2C85&ssl=1\",\"width\":70,\"height\":85,\"caption\":\"Elijah Wald\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i1.wp.com\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/12\\\/elijahbut.jpg?fit=70%2C85&ssl=1\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Rivers of Texas - Old Friends: A Songobiography","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Rivers of Texas - Old Friends: A Songobiography","og_description":"This was one of my standards in the late 1980s, because I loved the sound of a room full of people singing the chorus. I learned it from volume two of the Everybody Sing! LPs I had when I was a little kid,\u00a0 where it was sung by Ellen Steckert and Milt Okun, and for &hellip; Continue reading Rivers of Texas &rarr;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/","og_site_name":"Old Friends: A Songobiography","article_published_time":"2018-01-13T06:00:21+00:00","article_modified_time":"2018-01-13T15:18:40+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Everybody-sing-songs-for-juniors-300x299.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Elijah Wald","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ElijahWald","twitter_site":"@ElijahWald","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Elijah Wald","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/"},"author":{"name":"Elijah Wald","@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/#\/schema\/person\/20e4f69f2f284ea0ff728a9d1b7720a9"},"headline":"Rivers of Texas","datePublished":"2018-01-13T06:00:21+00:00","dateModified":"2018-01-13T15:18:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/"},"wordCount":471,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/#\/schema\/person\/20e4f69f2f284ea0ff728a9d1b7720a9"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Everybody-sing-songs-for-juniors-300x299.jpg","inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/","url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/","name":"Rivers of Texas - Old Friends: A Songobiography","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Everybody-sing-songs-for-juniors-300x299.jpg","datePublished":"2018-01-13T06:00:21+00:00","dateModified":"2018-01-13T15:18:40+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Everybody-sing-songs-for-juniors-300x299.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Everybody-sing-songs-for-juniors-300x299.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/rivers-of-texas\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Rivers of Texas"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/","name":"Old Friends: A Songobiography","description":"Revisiting the songs that have made a home in my head","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/#\/schema\/person\/20e4f69f2f284ea0ff728a9d1b7720a9"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/#\/schema\/person\/20e4f69f2f284ea0ff728a9d1b7720a9","name":"Elijah Wald","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/elijahbut.jpg?fit=70%2C85&ssl=1","url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/elijahbut.jpg?fit=70%2C85&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/elijahbut.jpg?fit=70%2C85&ssl=1","width":70,"height":85,"caption":"Elijah Wald"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/elijahbut.jpg?fit=70%2C85&ssl=1"}}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2007,"url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/brand-new-tennessee-waltz\/","url_meta":{"origin":3338,"position":0},"title":"Brand New Tennessee Waltz (Jesse Winchester)","author":"Elijah Wald","date":"August 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I remember knowing in a vague sort of way that this was by Jesse Winchester, but I didn't know anything more about him and don't have any memory of hearing him sing it, or indeed of hearing anyone sing it. I obviously must have heard it somewhere -- most likely\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"Sing out (Jesse Winchester)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sing-out-Jesse-Winchester-e1471702922808.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":707,"url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/codine\/","url_meta":{"origin":3338,"position":1},"title":"Cod&#8217;ine (Buffy Sainte-Marie)","author":"Elijah Wald","date":"March 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Buffy Sainte-Marie was one of my favorite songwriters of the 1960s, and I learned at least a half-dozen of her songs -- but, for some reason, my favorites tended to be songs that made little or no sense for a man to sing, like \"I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"best of buffy","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/best-of-buffy-300x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":733,"url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/bury-beneath-willow\/","url_meta":{"origin":3338,"position":2},"title":"Bury Me Beneath the Willow","author":"Elijah Wald","date":"April 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A lovelorn favorite from the Carter Family, via Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, and various other people.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"Cisco Archive LP","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cisco-Archive-LP-300x298.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":225,"url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/worried-man-blues\/","url_meta":{"origin":3338,"position":3},"title":"Worried Man Blues (Woody Guthrie\/Carter Family)","author":"Elijah Wald","date":"February 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"An early country blues from the Carter Family via Woody Guthrie, with touches of Sam McGee...","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"Sara Carter","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sara-Carter-204x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":228,"url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/when-francis-dances-with-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":3338,"position":4},"title":"When Francis Dances with Me (My father)","author":"Elijah Wald","date":"February 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A New York waltz of the 1920s, learned from my father and accompanied by appropriate reminiscences and ephemera.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"george1927","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/george1927-177x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3642,"url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/kuolewa\/","url_meta":{"origin":3338,"position":5},"title":"Kuolewa (Jean-Bosco Mwenda)","author":"Elijah Wald","date":"April 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Each lesson with Jean-Bosco Mwenda would focus on a particular song -- \"Masanga,\" \"Bibi Teresa,\" \"Kijana Muke\" -- and after I'd learned the guitar parts to three or four of these I asked if he could write out the lyrics for me. Polite as always, Bosco got out a pen\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/EW-with-Bosco-and-family.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}