Since it is still allergy season, I have not been able to record any vocals --- so, I went back to the old working files and dragged out this number. I believe it might have been the second number that I submitted to this forum (way back when). I was a newbie and the mix and recording was pretty awful but you all were very kind with your suggestions and I cleaned it up and got it to sounding a bit better. However, it still needed work. So, I have worked on it again and even re-recorded a couple of tracks (not vocals -- aaachoo). I am too lazy to re-record the whole thing but hopefully these changes will make it acceptable.
I came across a reference about this song in a book "Music And Dance In Florida" that mentioned this song as a favourite song of Florida's "Cracker" cowboys. A few people have recorded this song (e.g., Tex Ritter and Woody Guthrie). Each version sounded different from each other. Search as I did, I could not find a composer of this song. Several sources listed it as a "traditional" song. So, like a lot of Blues songs, I guest somebody came up with the original song and the song traveled around the country. Musicians in each location to which it traveled undoubtedly changed, added, and/or dropped verses and probably changed the original melody and the "somebody" that came up with the song was lost. Anyway, I came up with the music for my own version and this is what I am stuck with.
Any further suggestions, that you may have, would be appreciated and I hope you enjoy it.
Thanks.
Rye Whiskey
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