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Songs of the Civil War (1991) – "Follow the Drinking Gourd" and "Give Us a Flag" OVO by Peter Gabriel (2000) (soundtrack of the Millennium Dome Show) "Freedom" on The Best of The Jammy's Volume One with the Mutaytor "The Long Road" (duet with Cliff Eberhardt) on 1990 album The Long Road "Gay Cavalier" (duet with Pino Daniele) on 1983 album ...
Follow the Drinking Gourd is an African-American folk song first published in 1928. The "drinking gourd" is another name for the Big Dipper asterism.Folklore has it that enslaved people in the United States used it as a point of reference so they would not get lost during their journey of escape to the North and to freedom.
"Follow the Drinking Gourd" Richie Havens: 3:25: 9. "Battle Hymn of the Republic" Judy Collins: 2:17: 10. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
Jerry Merrick was an American folk singer-songwriter. His songs have been recorded by Richie Havens, B.J. Thomas, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Susan Tedeschi.. Merrick is best known for writing "Follow," which appeared on the 1967 Richie Havens LP Mixed Bag (MCA Verve/Folkways), which Rolling Stone called a "Sixties folk epic."
Peg Leg Joe is a legendary sailor and underground railroad conductor, popularly associated with the song "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd".According to the folklorist H.B. Parks, who collected the song in the 1910s, Peg Leg Joe was an abolitionist who led enslaved people through the Underground Railroad to freedom during the last years of American slavery.
One reportedly coded Underground Railroad song is "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd". [1] The song's title is said to refer to the star formation (an asterism) known in America as the Big Dipper and in Europe as The Plough. The pointer stars of the Big Dipper align with the North Star. In this song the repeated line "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd" is thus ...
Richard P. Havens, 1983 is a 1968 double album set by folk rock musician Richie Havens featuring a combination of studio recordings and live material recorded in concert during July 1968. The album combined original material with several of the covers for which Havens was known.
Sweetwater was an American rock band originally from Los Angeles, California.They were the act scheduled to open the Woodstock festival in 1969 but were delayed by traffic, so folk singer Richie Havens's trio became the first act to perform.