{"id":733,"date":"2016-04-04T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2016-03-31T20:51:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T00:51:25","slug":"bury-beneath-willow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/bury-beneath-willow\/","title":{"rendered":"Bury Me Beneath the Willow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bury Me Beneath the Willow\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A_IQrgY9hd0?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>I thought I got this from Cisco Houston, yet again, because his name was on the record jacket&#8230; but that was just Everest Records&#8217; way of getting extra mileage from the Asch\/Stinson catalog. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-734 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cisco-Archive-LP-300x298.jpeg?resize=193%2C192\" alt=\"Cisco Archive LP\" width=\"193\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cisco-Archive-LP.jpeg?resize=300%2C298&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cisco-Archive-LP.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cisco-Archive-LP.jpeg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/>Their Cisco Houston album was a collection of folk songs\u00a0 recorded by Cisco with Woody Guthrie, usually with Woody singing lead, and &#8220;Bury Me Beneath the Willow&#8221; also has Sonny Terry playing harmonica and whooping in the background.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from that, I just went back and listened to their recording and find that I mostly sing different verses, which suggests that although I heard it on this record, I learned the lyric elsewhere. 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