Big Chimney Barn Dance
Whoa Mule, Get Up In the Alley
(self)

In the 1940s, my wife's grandfather left the coal mines of Virginia to work for the Chicago Western Railroad's Iowa branch. He was part of southern blacks' Great Migration to midwest states. Unbeknownst to them, railroad bosses had lured them to replace striking white workers. 

He played banjo, guitar, and fiddle. My wife recalls he played on the porch, after supper, and she and her siblings danced to the old-timey string music.

This fine-in-all-manners rendering of common folks' Americana also made her dance. 


Recommended: "Sittin' On Top of the World," "Red Mountain Wine," "Swamp Cat Rag," "Skipping and Flying," "Hunting the Buffalo," "Lonesome John," "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down," "The Golden Ticket," "I Don't Care," "Katy Did," "Chattanooga"

Video: "Skipping and Flying" (live in studio)
            "Hunting the Buffalo" (live in studio)


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