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Wanderin’

The Osborne Brothers

Album · 1969 · Hillbilly 001

Wanderin’ is a solo album by Bill Clifton, issued in 1969 by the Swiss label Hillbilly Records (HRS 001). Clifton recorded all of it on 18 September 1964 in Basel, Switzerland, at the home of Werner Mueller, singing and accompanying himself on guitar and autoharp. The album has fourteen songs, four of them credited to A. P. Carter: “Jimmy Brown, the Newsboy,” “The Storms Are on the Ocean,” “East Virginia Blues” and “Wildwood Flower.” Others include “John Henry,” Woody Guthrie’s “Ranger’s Command,” Scotty Wiseman’s “Remember Me,” “The Prisoner’s Song,” credited to Guy Massey, and two Clifton originals, “Happy Days” and “Little Girl Dressed in Blue.”

Clifton was born William August Marburg in Riderwood, Maryland, in 1931. He took the stage name Bill Clifton, was credited with organizing one of the first bluegrass festivals in the United States in 1961, and moved with his family to England in 1963, touring folk clubs across Europe from there. The Basel recordings date from that period. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2008.

Tracklist

  1. 1 John Henry alt version 3:12
  2. 2 Ranger's command 3:21
  3. 3 Burglar man 1:12
  4. 4 Prisoner’s Song alt version 2:43
  5. 5 Jimmie Brown the Newsboy alt version 3:20
  6. 6 Happy days 1:30
  7. 7 The Storms are on the Ocean alt version 2:51
  8. 8 Remember me 2:38
  9. 9 Wildwood Flower alt version 4:26
  10. 10 My mother 2:58
  11. 11 Little girl dressed in blue 1:58
  12. 12 East Virginia Blues alt version 2:35
  13. 13 Wanderin'

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