noted. 12/20/2011

• Industrial Workers of the World Songs

  Little Red Songbook

  tags: songs music labor communism

• False True Love (Roud 419)

  • This mournful dialogue was recorded twice by Shirley Collins accompanying herself on banjo. The first version is on her 1960 Folkways LP False True Lovers with the title The False True Love and was also included in her anthology Within Sound. She and Alan Lomax commented in the original album's notes:

     

     

  • As the role of the ballad singer lost its importance, the narrative pieces were broken down into fragmentary lyric songs. This process has been especially marked and rapid in the Southern Appalachian area, from which this song comes.
  • lately I feel that the hybrids are like sorrowful ghosts, lost between the purely American forms like the blues and bluegrass, and the robust spirit of the British tradition.

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