More than a hundred years ago, musicologist John Lomax recorded an African American woman they called "Dink" singing a song as she washed her man's clothes in a work camp on the banks of a river near Houston, Texas. Forty years later, in 1945, the great Josh White put it on his first album. Since then, it's been recorded by scores of performers, sometimes as "Fare Thee Well," but most often simply as "Dink's Song."
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Freebies from The 1937 Flood, West Virginia's Most Eclectic String Band! The Flood, the Original Old Boy Band, has been around since the 1970s playing their own brand of mountain music, from blues and jugband to swing and traditional folk. These podcasts feature Flood Freebies, recordings captured on the fly, as it were, at the Flood's weekly jam sessions
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- Dozens of musicians been members of The 1937 Flood over the years since it stumbled into existence in the mid 1970s. However, everyone says the current configuration is the best ever. Current members are Charlie Bowen, David Peyton, Joe Dobbs, Doug Chaffin, Sam St. Clair, Dave Ball and Jacob Scarr.
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