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Yeah, not much to report. I have been caught up in the current news for a few weeks - this election cycle combined with pandemic thing is really interesting. But there's only so long I can sustain that kind of thing, so I am now finally pulling back a little, and spent the last hour listening to different versions of "Wreck of the Old 97". Quite a few were either unintelligible or instrumental only.
I just realized that I have been being all annoyed at Facebook for losing my links in my essay about the history of "Wreck of the Old 97", but I forgot to check here on Dreamwidth to see if I also archived it here. I'll bet I did... Of course I did! But I had forgotten to tag it, so Facebook came in handy for finding where it was. So now it's tagged 'music.' Also found and tagged the "Obsessive-Compulsive Redux", which wanders a bit, but follows the history of the tune back to "The Ship That Never Returned."
Now I really need to stop being OCD for today.
ETA: Of course I don't really mean that. In the folk tradition, I had to go listen to the Dropkick Murphy's "Skinhead who never returned" (lyrics here are approximate).
ETA2: While I'm editing I might as well add Digital Library of Appalachia links to Wreck of the Old 97 - because I suspect the old Blue Ridge Institute links probably no longer work.
Also, aside, Eor tells me that part of the impetus to move under ground for the transit systems in Boston and New York was The Great Blizzard of 1888, which brought everything to a standstill.
I just realized that I have been being all annoyed at Facebook for losing my links in my essay about the history of "Wreck of the Old 97", but I forgot to check here on Dreamwidth to see if I also archived it here. I'll bet I did... Of course I did! But I had forgotten to tag it, so Facebook came in handy for finding where it was. So now it's tagged 'music.' Also found and tagged the "Obsessive-Compulsive Redux", which wanders a bit, but follows the history of the tune back to "The Ship That Never Returned."
Now I really need to stop being OCD for today.
ETA: Of course I don't really mean that. In the folk tradition, I had to go listen to the Dropkick Murphy's "Skinhead who never returned" (lyrics here are approximate).
ETA2: While I'm editing I might as well add Digital Library of Appalachia links to Wreck of the Old 97 - because I suspect the old Blue Ridge Institute links probably no longer work.
Also, aside, Eor tells me that part of the impetus to move under ground for the transit systems in Boston and New York was The Great Blizzard of 1888, which brought everything to a standstill.