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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Belgium
Artist: Lead Belly
Author: Huddie Ledbetter/Alan Lomax
Label: Musicraft
Year: 1939
Written in Washington D.C., the "bourgeois town" he couldn't find a decent hotel room cause of strict segregationist housing laws. He and his wife were supposed to stay with the Lomaxes but they got in trouble with the landlord. And it wasn't just white folks he and his wife felt uncomfortable with over there: "Everywhere we go the colored people would turn us down."
Covers:
Rolling Stones [adapted as When The Whip Comes Down]
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)
Belgium