High Sheriff on my heels. I better get on my way, yes!

May 8, 2008 12:37 PM

The full length of Tom Davenport's "Born for Hard Luck" featuring Peg Leg Sam, the last of the great medicine show singers/dancers/musicians.

Too busy to watch? Read the transcript with footnotes. Other films in Davenport's American Traditional Culture series available here.
Tip o' the hat to hortense for the pointer. Previous Folkstreams post.

posted by 1f2frfbf (4 comments total)

neato! Ne'er did I hearn of folkstreams.net afore!
posted by mwhybark at 1:50 PM on May 8

That made my day.

Thank you, 1f2frfbf. (Very Seussian name, by the way.)
posted by Benny Andajetz at 4:09 PM on May 8

Fantastic! Thanks.
posted by nebulawindphone at 4:37 PM on May 8

I thought he was about to swallow that harmonica!
posted by hortense at 9:46 PM on May 8