SHAKE SUGAREE

by Elizabeth Cotten


FOLKWAY RECORDS
FTS 31003
1967
STEREO





SIDE A:



Shake Sugaree
Washington Blues
I'm Going Away
Fox Chase
Ontario Blues
Mamma, Nobody's Here But the Baby

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SIDE B:



Look and Live, My Brother
Jesus Lifted Me
'Til We Meet Again
Jesus Is Tenderly Calling
Buck Dance
Ruben
Oh, Miss Lulie Gal
Shoot That Buffalo
Boatman Dance
Ball the Jack

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Editor's note: I'm no big fan of folk music and much of the guitar songs are just guitar songs to me but Shake Sugaree is pure genius. Even though Dylan and a few others have covered this and other songs by the self-taught, upside down and backwards, Cotten-picking granny, this version with the guitarist's 12 year old granddaughter is spectacular. You'll think so too if you are right in the head.