Mike Seeger performs "Walking Boss" in the Smithsonian Folkways Studio
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Please visit www.folkways.si.edu for an appreciation of Mike Seeger (1933-2009). http://folkways.si.edu/explore_folkways/mike_seeger.aspx Please share your thoughts, memories, and stories at the Smithsonian Folkways Facebook page or email them to SmithsonianFolkways@SI.EDU http://www.facebook.com/smithsonianfolkwaysrecordings For over fifty years, Mike Seeger has been a musician, documenter, and tireless advocate of American folk and traditional music. As a musician he recorded as a solo artist and member of folk revival ensemble the New Lost City Ramblers. As a collector he has captured and produced sounds by iconic artists such as Elizabeth Cotten and Dock Boggs. And finally, as a historian and preservationist of the music he calls "old time," Mike Seeger gives us the stories behind the music that is such an essential part of American culture. Here he performs and gives the history of "Walking Boss," a tune Thomas Clarence Ashley learned from African American railroad workers at the turn of the 19th century. To find more Mike Seeger recordings visit: http://www.folkways.si.edu/searchresults.aspx?sPhrase=Mike%20Seeger&sType='phrase' Also visit Smithsonian Folkways at http://www.folkways.si.edu/index.aspx The content and comments posted here are subject to the Smithsonian Institution copyright and privacy policy (www.si.edu/copyright/). Smithsonian reserves the right in its sole discretion to remove any content at any time.
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3 min 16 sec
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