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Why did I never listen to The Weavers before? I was browsing around at the library today and happened across a CD of their greatest hits while searching for a Hank Williams album, and liked the songs I saw on the back of the case. But seriously, I love their sound, I love the music they play, and they have made me fall in love with American folk music all over again. Even if one song is in Spanish and two are gibberish / weird other languages.
Seriously though. I already know a good number of these songs through collective cultural knowledge or something. My mom used to sing me "Tzena Tzena Tzena" when I was little; I remember "Follow the Drinking Gourd" from elementary school music class; they sang the "John B.", one of my songs I sing, which the Beach Boys did a version of on Pet Sounds; I just heard a guy sing "Sixteen Tons" at open mic night at the Mill on Monday and loved it and thought it would be cool to learn it but didn't know where to get a recording of it; there are many classics on this album, like "On Top of Old Smokey", "When the Saints Go Marching In", "Wimoweh", "This Land is Your Land", "Erie Canal", "Michael Row Your Boat Ashore", "Aunt Rhodie", "If I Had a Hammer"; and the five or so songs I didn't list here are durn good tunes too. In other words, wow. I bet nobody cares.
And, Hank Williams is amazing too. Oh golly. I kinda want to be him.
Seriously though. I already know a good number of these songs through collective cultural knowledge or something. My mom used to sing me "Tzena Tzena Tzena" when I was little; I remember "Follow the Drinking Gourd" from elementary school music class; they sang the "John B.", one of my songs I sing, which the Beach Boys did a version of on Pet Sounds; I just heard a guy sing "Sixteen Tons" at open mic night at the Mill on Monday and loved it and thought it would be cool to learn it but didn't know where to get a recording of it; there are many classics on this album, like "On Top of Old Smokey", "When the Saints Go Marching In", "Wimoweh", "This Land is Your Land", "Erie Canal", "Michael Row Your Boat Ashore", "Aunt Rhodie", "If I Had a Hammer"; and the five or so songs I didn't list here are durn good tunes too. In other words, wow. I bet nobody cares.
And, Hank Williams is amazing too. Oh golly. I kinda want to be him.