ILM sings the Anthology of American Folk Music

taking off more or less from here:

I began before Christmas an attempt at getting ILXors to cover songs from the Anthology in whatever manner they chose. I got a few submissions, but would love it if we could really work that out. So please do it, send me an mp3 of yourself singing.

― ian, Friday, January 2, 2009 3:22 PM

sent you a buell kazee cover iirc

can't believe more ppl didn't take you up on this awesome offer tbh

― (e_3) (Edward III), Wednesday, June 9, 2010 12:14 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

lyrics and chords available here, btw.

Watch the lyrics; the transcriptions in that book are sometimes terrible. I actually recorded a version of "John the Revelator" using that book as a guide, and later listenings revealed how wacky-off-base it was, but the damage is done. Thanks to Oak Publications I'm forever captured on wax singin' "Out of the flock, he said, 'You are Jews'."

well hell we can revise them anyway we want. these are the ilx sessions.

might rerecord my version of "butcher boy" if it's cool with ian

also this is folk music so hopefully we'll hear from the folks

no musical talent necessary

i am leaning toward "shine a light," because i think i can talk a friend into playing the fiddle part. actually maybe two fiddlers, now that i think of it.

no musical talent necessary

― (e_3) (Edward III)

*wipes beads of perspiration off forehead in relief*

I wanted to do something like this a few years ago, except with songs fromt he Threepenny Opera.

I'll definitely do a track!