There will never be anyone to play and sing like Dock Boggs, such a great performance 👏

🔥🔥🔥♥️

Great!

Bill Hodges brought me here

And then we have... "Ladyfingers".

If yall like what Catching Flies did with this song, go check Deep Forest. They released a great album in 1992 with samples from UNESCO of traditional songs in native languages from different nations around the world. it didnt age one day. I wish more musicians did remixes of old songs like that. the rhythms are beautiful

Hey MaMa and Lone Digger!?

This start of this song was sampled in hey mama!

If this was prior to 1959/60 this might be the oldest recording of this song. They are likely from banjo recordings in the late 1920s from what i could gather from his discography. After prodding sources from ChatGPT it could have also been a recording in 1963. during a folk music revival of the 1960s. He sounds older here so likely the latter.

This song is a banger

This song --> « can’t be satisfied - Muddy Waters » --> « i can’t get no satisfaction- Rolling Stones »

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Goddamn! This is awesome!

Marvellous❤

This is my great grandfather singing this song this is amazing Rosie was just not a song about a man wanted to get back to his woman Rosie was my grandfather's love of his life this song has been sampled by Nina Simone Nicki Minaj among many other people inside my grandfather is speaking from the grave not even knowing that his voice has touched so many different generations of music I discovered this on accident no one ever told us anything about my great granddaddy being recorded in parchment in 1947 I can only imagine how much time and money was made off of his voice that he never ever got credit for.

In VERY loving memory of Mr. Willie Shelton "Jaybird" Harrison (1909 - 1967 R.I.P. Gone but NOT forgotten).

So beautifully done with so much emotion, I can feel the soul and raw emotion in this. My love and appreciation to the sweet souls that created this with their experiences in life.

Catching Flies bought me here, damn.

Mr. Jody!

I was today years old when I learned that Hey Mama was sampled from an old prison hymm

it gets faster

this version is wayyyy better than the david guetta version.

In very loving memory of Mr. Charles R. Ellis (1902 - 1941 R.I.P. Gone but NOT forgotten).

I've asked my wife to play this at my funeral.

Admittedly, it's a bit unsettling to think that the voices of people who were likely unethically detained and forced to work, essentially enslaved, are being sampled in modern songs (er... 2014/2015. I got here from Caravan Palace's Lone Digger, but... yeah now I realize Hey Mama samples this too). It feels like profiting from pain and injustice, but removed from the context of that pain and injustice. And... yeah these men were likely not paid for this recording, and I don't think their descendants received any royalties. (Actually it sounds like Lomax got all of the royalties...*) However... if I hadn't heard the sample, I wouldn't have heard the original. Keeps their memory alive in a way, so more people find it. Which I guess is why this was recorded to begin with. And if sampling this makes people happy... I mean, maybe that's... sort of the intention of these songs, to bring a bit of happiness to an awful situation. So maybe it's a good thing modern songs sample this? But... I don't know. It still feels weird. Maybe sampling this song was intended to honor them in a way? Or maybe David Guetta and Caravan Palace made a careless, thoughtless decision several times removed from its original context just because it was royalty free? Though... after some digging, it looks like a lot of previous artists used this song as well, so maybe that's where they found this? I mean, I still enjoy Caravan Palace and some of Guetta's work, but... I'm having mixed emotions. I kinda went down a rabbit hole, there's a podcast called Switched On Pop, episode 174, "Rosie: Investigating a Crime at the Heart of the Music Industry", that I just listened to that goes into the history of this song and where it was sampled, which is why I edited this comment so many times. Okay okay I'm done going down this rabbit hole, I got stuff to do. In any case, many thanks to the uploader. *Edit: I got this thought from the podcast, but I think I was a bit unkind to Alan Lomax here. It sounds like he was a political activist who recorded these folk songs out of respect. He even started an organization called the People's Songs that was set up to "create, promote, and distribute songs of labor and the American people." It provided music for Henry Wallace's run in the Progressive Party of 1948, which supported desegregation and other civil rights positions. If he were in this for the money, his thousands of recordings probably wouldn't be available, for free, royalty-free, online. And thus probably wouldn't be sampled in so many songs. So... again, I'm torn as to whether or not sampling this song is a good thing, but... it led me here, so maybe it is.

The song "Inside Looking Out" by The Animals, later covered by Grand Funk Railroad is loosely based on this song.

Supernatural brought me here

i'll take the supernatural version over this one, but hey.

Toasting, African American toasting.

At my old age I like this song because it is timeless. Any human being can get to be thinking the thoughts in this song. I do like Appalachian music, banjo included, but for me the aspects of this song rate as: - 1. The lyrics 2. His voice 3. His singing 4. The banjo

I”m death and and I can’t sell a door, to heaven or hell..”

So good

So good

So, so good

Nice banjer

According to Brian Rust's Jazz Records {1978 ed.} Okeh 8086 rec.c. July 7, 1923. This was the 9th of 10 sides she did for Okeh with Clarence Williams,p in June-July 1923.

Catching Flies has a fire remake of this son

Who sang this? It's so beautifully sad and haunting 🥺

For every mother'son (and daugthet)...

This is what I like about the 🪕, it’s great at like Hillbilly music but it’s also great at like Gothic Country which a lot of people don’t expect

Love her sweet and tender voice. But you hear the pain in it..

So this is intro to Heliophobia

Amazing Soul shiver

Met you when you opened for johnny winters in peterborough

Oh Death is a fascinating song. It is actually a conversation between death and a dying person. I didn't realize that until I heard it sung that way by two people. It is an Appalachian classic, but it goes back way further. From Ireland and before that, Scotland carried from place to place by the Scotch-Irish. It derives from a very old Scottish song still sung called "Death and the Lady." Which has also become the title of an Opera. And yes, that most well known Appalachian instrument, the banjo, was originally an African instrument. The Scotch Irish immigrants, before moving on to the mountains, worked as indentured servants, side by side with first-generation African slaves. After they worked together, they clearly partied together, and that is how the banjo became was taken to the hills and became the background music for what came to be known as Bluegrass.

Music of struggling, unheard people, whether they are white or black.

Why do I picture my great grandparents even 2x great grandparents listening to this? Wished I knew about this song earlier in my life I love it. If I knew about this song before my great grandma passed I would ask her if she knew this song I will always love this song I think this is the best one I heard second is Ralph Stanley's

The authentic and original and deserves all the credit!

It could also be applied to 2020 death metal on a virus

This isn't exactly in my opinion a fantastic version but it is better then most version's like it. I prefer Jen Titus's version best but not bad. I think if Robert Johnson did the song i'd enjoy it more than any other Folk and country take on it.