home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   rec.music.folk      Folks discussing folk music of various s      6,461 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 6,217 of 6,461   
   dh6@soas.ac.uk to David West   
   Re: still looking for the authors of the   
   20 Mar 20 02:58:40   
   
   On Tuesday, September 15, 1992 at 6:18:54 AM UTC+1, David West wrote:   
   > I heard   
   > the New Lost City Ramblers mention ... apochryphal songs   
   > they thought they might sing, such as "I'm lonesome in the saddle since my   
   > hoss died" and "You left footprints on my stomach when you walked out of   
   > my heart".   
      
   I composed "Footprints on my stomach" around 1963, and sang it at the 1971   
   Philadelphia Folk Festival with Michael Cooney, with Dave Bromberg on slide   
   guitar. Taught it to Jean Redpath, who sang it in Carnegie Hall around 1978.    
   See youtu.be/ExGpQVPzpYA   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca