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Run Slave Run Fiddle: GDAE, Banjo: gDGDE (fretless). We got this from Elizabeth Cotton. There's also a great field-recording on fife (or quills?) around. Slave is of course a euphemism here for the original word, nigger. “Pateroller get ya.” One of the most common tunes reported in ex-slave narratives. Robert Winans has a great article summarizing musical data in the WPA interviews. Those interviews give good examples of why freedom and human rights have to be demanded not only for oneself, but for others.

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from If You Want to Go to Sleep, Go to Bed, released January 1, 2009

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Hunter Robertson Geneva, Switzerland

I play old-time banjo – clawhammer and 2 & 3-finger styles and mainly play traditional music from the US, especially the southeastern part of the US – though I make the occasional foray into other things.

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