Friday, December 20, 2024

"Payday"

 Purists tell us this doesn’t sound much like Mississippi John Hurt’s original, but that’s pretty much by design. Once we learn a song, we usually stop listening to the original so it’s free to find its own form in the Floodisphere. At least, that’s our take on what Pete Seeger’s folklorist father called “the folk process.”

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