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One Lonesome Saddle
''One Lonesome Saddle'' is a self-released album by Ray LaMontagne. A small number of copies were given away and sold to various people before Ray Lamontagne instructed the album's producer Carl Franklin (no relation to film director and actor) to "Bury the recordings". Track listing Two different versions of the album exist, with slightly different track listings on each. Version 1 # "Down to the River" # "One Lonesome Saddle" # "Roadhouse Girl" # "Poor Boy" # "Carry Me" # "Hobo Blues" # "Sugar Mama" # "Shucking the Corn" # "Whiskey Train" # "Shelter" # "Crazy Dreamers" The "OLS Sessions" # "Vigilante Man "Vigilante Man" is a song by Woody Guthrie, recorded and released in 1940 as one of his ''Dust Bowl Ballads''. The song is about the hired thugs ("vigilantes") who would violently chase away migrants to California trying to escape the Dust Bowl, a ..." # "Hobo Blues" # "One Lonesome Saddle" # "Poor Boy" # "Carry Me" # "Whiskey Train" # "Shelter" # "Big Boned Woman" # "Still ...
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Ray LaMontagne
Raymond Charles Jack LaMontagne (; born June 18, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. LaMontagne has released eight studio albums: ''Trouble'', ''Till the Sun Turns Black'', '' Gossip in the Grain'', ''God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise'', ''Supernova'', ''Ouroboros'', ''Part of the Light'', and ''Monovision''. He was born in New Hampshire and was inspired to create music after hearing an album by Stephen Stills. Critics have compared LaMontagne's music to that of Otis Redding, Ryan Adams, Beck, Pink Floyd, The Band, Van Morrison, Nick Drake and Tim Buckley. Early life LaMontagne was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1973, one of six children raised by his mother. In his early teens he lived in Morgan, Utah, and was more interested in drawing images of Dungeons & Dragons than in his school work. After graduating from high school, LaMontagne moved to Lewiston, Maine, and found work in a shoe factory. LaMontagne also spent a significant amount of time in Wilton, ...
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Folk Music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on traditional instruments, music about cultural or national identity, music that changes between generations (folk process), music associated with a people's folklore, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that. Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk rev ...
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Vigilante Man
"Vigilante Man" is a song by Woody Guthrie, recorded and released in 1940 as one of his ''Dust Bowl Ballads''. The song is about the hired thugs ("vigilantes") who would violently chase away migrants to California trying to escape the Dust Bowl, a man-made ecological catastrophe in the American Great Plains during the 1930s. One verse refers to the murder of Preacher (Jim) Casy, a central figure in John Steinbecks' 1939 novel ''The Grapes of Wrath''. The tune was taken from "Sad and Lonesome Day", a song made popular by The Carter Family, which itself borrows from "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" by Blind Lemon Jefferson. Recordings The song has been recorded several times, including: * 1940Woody Guthrie, on the album ''Dust Bowl Ballads'' * 1972Ry Cooder, on the album ''Into the Purple Valley'' * 1973Nazareth, on the album ''Razamanaz'' * 1988Bruce Springsteen, on the album '' Folkways: A Vision Shared'' * 1990 Hindu Love Gods, on the album '' Hindu Love Gods'' * 1996feedtime, ...
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