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Arnold Rypens
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Artist: Dock Boggs
Author: traditional
Label: Paramount
Year: 1927
There's twelve different towns named Danville all over the USA, also in Kentucky, homestate of Dock Boggs. His Danville Girl (and Woody Guthrie's too) "sports a Danville curl" and "she wore her hat on the back of her head like high-tone people all do". See also Wild And Wreckless Hobo.
Covers:
Dixon Brothers [as The Girl I Left In Danville]
Woody Guthrie [as Danville Girl N°1 and N°2]
Cisco Houston [as The Gambler]
Dorsey Dixon [as Girl I Left In Danville]
New Danville Girl by Sam Shepard & Bob Dylan (Empire Burlesque outtake leading to Brownsville Girl on Knocked Out Loaded) is all their own song. Lyrics though were inspired by Doin' The Things That We Want To from Lou Reed's New Sensations album, with its first line: "The other night we went to see Sam's play". Sam Shepard's that is. Also, Dylan's lyrics mention a brutal lynching that really took place in Danville, Illinois in the 1900s, the same little town that decided to outlaw all sorts of abortion on its sacred grounds, no matter what state laws required. Watch out if you're a Danville Girl there.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)