Forbidden from playing music, a young Elizabeth Cotten — born in 1893 in what is now part of Carrboro — secretly borrowed her brother’s banjo and guitar. She flipped the instruments upside down to ...
In a fascinating but depressing story recently published in the Missoulian, writer Colin McDonald chronicles the ruination of freight-riding, a long and honorable American tradition. Hopping trains, ...
Callahan Brothers. side 1: Cowboy Jack; side 2: Freight Train Blues (Banner 6-09-53). 78 rpm. This same coupling was released on various American Record Corporation (ARC) labels. In 1929, the American ...