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Railroad Bill (live performance)
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Traditional folk song performed at the 2007 Jacob's Ladder Folk Festival in Israel.
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Old fashioned folksinger in the People's Music tradition.
Born Stephen Lawrence Suffet in 1947, Steve Suffet is best described as an old fashioned folksinger. His repertoire is a mixture of railroad songs, trucker songs, cowboy songs, union songs, old time ballads, blues, ragtime, Gospel, bluegrass, topical-political songs, and whatever else tickles his fancy. He takes songs from whatever sources he wishes and then he sings them his own way, maybe rewriting the lyrics on the spot, flatting a 7th, or changing a major key to a mountain modal.Steve also writes his own songs, sometimes set to the tunes of traditional folk songs, but more often set to tunes he has composed in traditional styles. Photo credit: Jody Kolodzey
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Charts
Peak #217
Peak in subgenre #24
Author
Traditional
Rights
Public domain
Uploaded
July 30, 2010
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MP3
MP3 1.9 MB 128 kbps 2:04
Story behind the song
Railroad Bill was the alias of Morris Slater, an outlaw who was killed in Alabama in 1897. The song has developed into a guitar fingerpicker's showpiece. This performance was recorded live on May 5, 2007, at the Jacob's Ladder Folk Festival in Nof Ginosar, Israel.
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