Het album heet: Major Sins pt 1. Rockabilly in een nieuw strak jasje. Erg leuk. Uit Londen, deze boys. Ze hebben veel te danken aan producent Gareth Parton die met The Go! Team en Pete & The Pirates werkte.
Tom Allalone: "Alan Lomax is a complete God as far as I'm concerned. Any music lovers reading this should look him up. Everybody owes him big-time! Individually it'd be Robert Johnson, Son House, Mel Torme, The Four Freshmen, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Hot Club Of Cowtown, Calexico, Ray Charles, James Brown, Doris Day and Franciose Hardy. I know that may sound like a complete mish-mash of musics that have no coherence. But I assure you, they do. They are all strung together by one thing. Attention and emphasis on the song. Not the performer. Which leads us on nicely...".
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Extra Oorbijter: Alan Lomax nam in de jaren dertig oude songs op in America, veel van deze nummers die hij verzamelde in velden en op wegen werden later grote hits, Johnny Cash claimde de schrijver te zijn van de latere hit 'Sloop John B' van The Beach Boys.
Although "J. Cash" gets the songwriting credit for "I Want to Go Home," in fact it's his version of the homesick sailor folk tale more commonly known as "Sloop John B," recorded elsewhere by the Weavers, the Kingston Trio, the Beach Boys, and others.
"Sloop John B" is the seventh track on The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album and was also a single which was released in 1966 on Capitol Records. It was originally a traditional West Indies folk song, possibly recorded earliest by The Weavers under the title "Wreck of the John B", the song taken from a collection by Carl Sandburg (1927). Alan Lomax made a field recording of the song in Nassau, 1935, under the title "Histe Up the John B. Sail". This recording appears on the album Bahamas 1935: Chanteys And Anthems From Andros And Cat Island.[1] The song was adapted by Weavers member Lee Hays. The song has been recorded by many artists, including The Calypso Bandits, Joseph Spence, Tom Fogerty, Roger Whittaker, Johnny Cash, Jimmie Rodgers, Jerry Jeff Walker, Dick Dale, Catch 22, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Relient K, Dan Zanes, and Okkervil River. In 1960, Lonnie Donegan had a UK Top 10 hit with it under the title "I Wanna Go Home".
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