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Shayna Kipping, Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line, 2007 |
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BUDDY WON’T YOU ROLL DOWN THE LINE BY UNCLE DAVE MACON, 1930 REMIX: SHAYNA KIPPING (FEATHERS), BUDDY WON’T YOU ROLL DOWN THE LINE, 2007 Macon’s songs often deal with Southern history. This one is about the Coal Creek Rebellion, which took place in East Tennessee in the 1890s. Mining companies hired convict labourers to try to break the miners’ union. In an armed rebellion, the miners freed the convicts, but the leaders of the rebellion were sent to prision. Kipping’s work presents us with a photograph of a model miner framed within a dark background with only a distressed canary for company, warning of impending disorder. Shayna Kippping is a member of the US band Feathers. Feathers are an eight-piece musicial ensemble, considered as important members of the new psychedelic folk movement. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2006 on the Gnomonsong record label. |
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