Tag Archives: Jerry Silverman
The Ballad of “Wayfaring Stranger”
Ballad: “A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas, or verses.” Verse 1 I’m just a poor wayfaring stranger, a traveling through this world of woe But there’s no sickness toil or danger in that bright land to … Continue reading
Posted in Posts with Audio, Posts with Video, The Ballad Series
Tagged Alan Lomax, American Folklife Center, Charles Seeger, Charlie D. Tillman, Chasing The Rising Sun, Francesco Turrisi, Going Over Jordan, Jerry Silverman, Jerry Silverman's Folk Song Encyclopedia, John F. Garst, John Lomax, Joseph Bever, L.L. McDowell, Library of Congress, Our Singing Country, Over Jordan, Poor Wayfaring Stranger, Rhiannon Giddens, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Ted Anthony, The American Folklife Reading Room, The Christian Songster, The Hymn, The Revival, The Wayfaring Pilgrim, Times of Refreshing, Todd Harvey, Vaughan's Texas Quartet, W.T. Dale, Wayfaring Stranger
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“Deep River Blues”
(To see more Guitar TAB transcriptions, click on Guitar Music in the Categories list.) This past February, I wrote a post for this blog called “Songbooks & Sheet Music.” One of the songbooks I mentioned was Jerry Silverman’s Folk Song Encyclopedia, … Continue reading
Songbooks & Sheet Music
Maybe I’d borrowed a songbook too, but I do remember this much about the day in May, 1970, that I sat down and started teaching myself how to play the guitar. Making music was nothing new. I’d been playing the … Continue reading
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Tagged Jerry Silverman, Sheet music, Songbooks, Swinging On A Star, Tom Paxton
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