Verandah music afloat – why not? Here’s a lovely blues on the river shanty boats by Jimmy Murphy, recorded in 1951, Knoxville, Tennessee.
This site is also the home of a great folklife project, ‘A Secret History of American River People: the lost narratives of river people, river communities, and the river itself’. And they’ve built their own shanty boat which they sail around the rivers collecting, documenting and learning …
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