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Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swingin’ in the Southern breeze Strange fruit hangin’ from the poplar trees The Inspiration: “Strange Fruit” was written by a Jewish high school English teacher from the Bronx named Abel Meeropol. Meeropol originally wrote the song as...
The Charlie Daniels Bandcertainly proved their storytelling credentials in 1979 when they put their own Southern country-fied spin on the old "deal with the devil" fable. Backed by some fast and furious fiddles, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" tells the tale of a young musician named Johnn...
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Named after her most exuberant hit,I Wanna Dance with Somebodydoesn't stray far beyond the diva's Wikipedia page, presenting her remarkable life in a linear, conventional fashion. However, perhaps surprisingly, it doesn't skimp on the personal life section, addressing her turbulent relationships ...
The cute ditty was about a young boy named Luke having a "top laugh" with his dad on his JCB, and all the japes they ended up having. It was a strangely emotional song about father-son bonding that caught the public's animation at the time. ...
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, or a 17-year-old rapper from upstate new york named bishop nehru . one of his more curious collaborations is this track with ann arbor producer dabrye, best known at the time for his 2000 lp winking makes a face , under the tadd mullinix moniker. and while the beat is indeed “...
Guthrie, the third of five children, was the son of a onetimecowboy, land speculator, and localDemocraticpolitician who named him after Pres.Woodrow Wilson. His mother, who introduced her children to a wide variety ofmusic, was thought to be mentally ill and was institutionalized when Guthrie...
“harmonica wizard” DeFord Bailey. Bedridden with polio as a youth, Bailey absorbed the sounds of his native Tennessee — the chugging and whistling of trains, the howling of hound dogs, the shouts of fox hunters, the cackling of hens — and would conjure them on his harp. Named for ...