MUSI 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Uncle Dave Macon, Roy Acuff, Joseph Philbrick Webster
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Listening guide: country: waiting for a train, nine pound hammer, it wasn"t god who made honky tonk angels. Songs on mid-term: uncle penn, i"m so lonesome i could cry, crazy, jasckson, the carter family, wildwood flower. This was one of their hit songs and provide example of misheard words that became established lyrics. The lyrics of the original song, i"ll twine. Mid the ringlets, published by joseph philbrick webster in 1860 begins: The melody of this song was used by woody guthrie for another song, the sinking of the. Reuben james, which is about the sinking of the uss reuben james by a german submarine in 1941. The success of the carter family is remarkable when you consider that this was a group in which the women were in the forefront and the virtuoso musician playing the guitar was a woman. So both the lead singer and the lead guitarist were women.
