Artist Lounge: Henry Thomas
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This is a little gem. I love the cane playing, the vocal phrasing, and the call & response between the two. Here are the lyrics as far as I can make them out. Oh Liza, I'm goin away, I'm goin away;Yes 'tis true, it ain't no use;Oh Henry what'll I do? God don't want, I don't want you, Goodbye, fare you well, Liza, Liza, Liza [on the second verse I'm stumped: I think it starts "Look down the road," but maybe not, and I also imagine a "salty dog" and a "turkey in the barrel... MORE
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I am enamored of this little song. I like how the guy literally boxes himself in, then, after a burial at sea, finds his way out again, as if imagining himself as desirable whalebait and fish food suddenly boosts his self-confidence and his spirits. (Repeat each line three times except the last line which repeats only twice). I've got the worried blues, God I'm feelin bad. I've got no one to tell my troubles to. You can box me up and send me to my ma. If my ma don'... MORE
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This song has been posted before - - you can stream it here - - but I'm in love and cannot help it.Henry 'Ragtime Texas' Thomas was an itinerant musician and inveterate hobo and as such a train freak after my own heart. Thomas was born 1874 in Upshur County, Texas, one in a family of perhaps nine children to parents who had been slaves and who were "even as free people ...still pretty well trapped in the semi-feudal world of the Texas cotton economy" (Oakley 59). Thomas wa... MORE
Going from Fort Worth to Chicago? Here are some directions, not exactly the express run.
This is considered the oldest style of popular music caught on record.
Something to think about . . .
