Artist: Pete Seeger
Author: Idris Davies/Pete Seeger
Label: Folkways
Year: 1958
With Sonny Terry live at Carnegie Hall.
Covers:
Shilos [Gram Parsons' first band]
Judy Collins [with Roger McGuinn]
Fifth Avenue [with Jimmy Page on guitar]
Beatles [guitar riff in If I Needed Someone; admitted by George Harrison]
John Denver [solo debut]
Bob Dylan & The Band [Basement tape]
Alarm [with other words; Welshmen]
Based upon a poem by Welshman Idris Davies, collected in Gwalia Deserta (Wasteland Of Wales). Written in 1926 during a national miners strike started in Wales. Rhymney is where he lived and where he died.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)