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LONDON'S PREMIER FUZZ BANJO, PUMP ORGAN AND VIOLIN BAND
THE RABBI
NEW SINGLE 'TOM DOOLEY' - LIMITED EDITION AVAILABLE NOW!!w
"Now..I
don't know whether the boys can follow me on this one..?"The Rabbi, Trad Arr and Mark Cottrell will be playing live on Sunday July 3rd at the Boogaloo in Archway. Get there early if you are too old to stand up for long periods of time.
The Rabbi is fantastically well known for
his recent collaboration with The Libertines and is often to be found at the
centre of everything, normally with Shane MacGowan not too far away. His
rendition of 'Sally Brown' is now the stuff of legend and his live appearances
are as literal as they are rare and cool. London Undone indeed.
Trad Arr are proud and honoured to
have worked with The Rabbi on his latest collaboration with Mark Cottrell. This
latest venture into the unknown and beyond has been captured for posterity on a
shiny silver disk, which is not much use to the man as he doesn't have a shiny
silver disk player. The four tracks on this joint Porida/Fuzzynoise single are
two versions of 'Tom Dooley' and two versions of live favourite 'The Gnome
Song', the last version being the stonking 'Litle Noddy Suit' remix by East
London's very own Scratcher in the Rye, DJ Salinger. This is a strictly limited
edition of 1000 CD's. Get one before it gets too big. A must have for everyone.
CD Single available now!
MP3 Clips here
Contact PODRIDA RECORDS at 'podridarecords@yahoo.co.uk'
RALPH RINZLER: The murder of Laura Foster (January 1866) was committed a few miles from Doc's home. More than sixty years later, Doc, as a young boy, sat by the fireside at home and listened to heated discussions about the case.Tom Dula was described to Doc as having been a handsome young man in his early twenties at the time of the murder. Local legend tells that both Laura Foster and Annie Melton were in love with Tom, and further that Sheriff Grayson, the man who took him in custody and also drove the horses from beneath him when he was hanged, was jealous of Tom. Some believe that he either committed the murder or helped Ann Melton who is reputed to have murdered Laura Foster out of jealousy. Around Doc's home, there was great sympathy for Tom. Local people who remembered the principals in that case described Laura Foster as "very beautiful... with chestnut curls and merry blue eyes... wild as a buck." (Brown, "North Carolina Folklore" Vol II). An old man from Wilkes County, N. C. said: "Ann Melton was the purtiest woman I ever looked in the face of. She'd a-been hung too, but her neck was jist too purty to stretch hemp. She was guilty, I knowed hit... 'Ef they'd a-been ary womern on the jury, she'd a-got first degree. Men couldn't look at the womern and keep their heads." (Brown ibid.). Two years after the murder, Ann was tried and acquitted. Tom had been hanged refusing to implicate her in any way.
Doc's great-grandmother, Betsy Triplett Watson, was called to Annie Melton's death bed and said she was told: "If I knew I would never get well again, there is something I would tell you about Tom's hanging." Doc's cousin, Ora Watson, and Rosa Lee both tell that great-granny Betsy (she is also Rosa Lee's great-grandmother) heard sounds around Annie's bed when she was dying: sounds like those of red hot rocks being dropped in a bucket of cold water. Ann Melton was said to have told Betsy Watson that she could see the flames of Hell at the foot of her bed.
Grannie Lottie Watson (married to Betsy's son, Smith Watson) used to sing the ballad in much the same version that Doc sings here. The version popularized by The Kingston Trio was based on the singing of Frank Proffitt who lives a few minutes ride down the road from Doc.
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