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Last night after writing my post I went through and updated my so so so out of date blogroll, and I didn’t know about all the crazy stuff that’s gone down in the last few months : Tuwa (!!!!) stopped posting, Rev. Frost got kicked out of his home, Big Rock Candy Mountain got their domain stolen! What’s going on people!?

Billy Bird is an unknown from Atlanta - and an outstanding blues singer. Bird isn’t a showy as a lot of the piedmont blues musicians (especially the Atlanta based ones) but his simple, yet poetic sound is what really draws me towards him. This song is painful blues songs about a man lamenting the death of of wife and features such great lines like “I’m going to make a hundred/ I’ll give you ninety-nine” and of course he rolls that “nine” off the tongue and guitar just like Blind Willie McTell would.

Billy Bird - Down in the Cemetery (1928)

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