I’m listening to American Roots Music Radio right now. I’ve gone ahead and made it the featured station of the day

Email pandorastations@gmail.com with the location of the image you want attached and I’ll get it in there.

Thanks for coming by.

Tim

I was just re-listening to the excellent set When the sun goes down: The secret history of rock & roll (a 4 CD overview of blues from early and proto-blues of the 1920’s through to the early electric blues of Chicago in the 1950’s). I was really struck by how similar “Judge Harsh blues” by Furry Lewis (from disc 2) is to McTell’s “Death cell blues”. There are important differences, but several of the verses are almost identical. Lewis doesn’t include that great couplet about forging, though.

I’m not sure sure when McTell recorded his song, but the Lewis song was recorded in 1928. Without more info it would be hard to say anything definitive about who might have influenced who, or whether they’re both just drawing from that great shared pool of song ideas that so much folk music used to come out of.

Thanks! I do have one other station that I listen to quite a bit, but I have no idea how to describe it :-). I’ll go ahead and post it, though, and worry about descriptions later.

About an hour later: Yeah, after way too much futzing around (it had to have a picture, no?) I added my other (wildly eclectic) station, cleverly titled “Lots o’ crazy stuff“. Now we’ll see if anyone cares :-).

Since I don’t “own” the station you posted for me, I can’t do things like add an image to the station. Is there a way for you to pass ownership over to me so that I can edit the associated information? I realize that this is what I get for not posting it myself, but I figured I’d ask.

American Roots Music Radio has been posted to

http://pandorastations.crispynews.com

Got any more?

Stop on by and thanks.

Tim