I'm Alabama Bound

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I can't find any reliable source as to who wrote this song. Searches keep turning up ragtime-era songs of a similar name, but the only versions of this song I've ever heard were all from Lead Belly---by himself, or with the golden Gate Singers, or with his cheerfully soused pals Woody & Cisco. So I have credited it to him, although I see there's a small typo in the title which got past me. Should read "Ledbetter". I did this song with a Nashville-strung guitar maybe 15 years ago, but this has a more authentic folkish feel with no electronics added.

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@zepp2498 4 ай бұрын

Very nice song and great performance. Bravo, well done. Like 👍

@j.k.marshall618 15 күн бұрын

Alonzo, well done, a great tune for call and response in small jams. Bravo.

@TeraTelnet 4 ай бұрын

Lonnie Donegan introduced me to this one, I've always been very fond of it. I liked your version a lot!

@alonzogarbanzo 4 ай бұрын

Thanks! Didn't know Lonnie had done it, but it's no surprise, he being a big Lead Belly fan as well. I'll look up that one!

@terryfitzpatrick5602 4 ай бұрын

Nice playing. I'm fully engaged just beating on my 6 string box. I can't even imagine trying to play those riffs on a 12 string.

@robertconroy959 4 ай бұрын

Diggin' your 12 string blues, bro

@oinkooink 4 ай бұрын

Real good

@sl5932 4 ай бұрын

👍👍👍👍

@SirCoughsalot 2 ай бұрын

It's very, very old. I've heard Jelly Roll Morton credit himself as the composer on the Library of Congress tapes, but there's no reason to believe his version was anything more than an arrangement, if that. Many old-timers had a version cobbled together from vernacular scraps. Favorite version is Lead Belly with Woody and Cisco. I love the wild, anarchic sound of all those recordings. Nice job, amigo.

@alonzogarbanzo 2 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yes, well according to Jelly Roll, he invented everything, didn't he? The Huddie-Woody-Cisco hoot is the only version I've ever heard of this one (as opposed to "Alabamy Bound", a song I've never been too excited by, though Ray Charles made somewhat of a silk purse out of it.) Anyway, do you know where I might hear any other versions of this one?

@billpugh7385 16 күн бұрын

There is version on the internet Lonnie Donegan with Van Morrison. Just love the sound of a 12 string!