Bascom Lamar Lunsford - I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground

Bascom Lamar Lunsford - I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground

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Music

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• Bascom
• Lamar
• Lunsford
• Wish
• Was
• Mole
• in
• the
• Ground

[bottleobushmills]

Thank you for posting this. I adore this

[goyogago]

Is it just me or is that extraordinary sound quality for a 1928 recording? or have I just listened to too much Robert Johnson and Skip James?

[jackbeefus]

@theivorydome Lunsford didn't write it either. He learned it from the "locals" in western North Carolina, and recorded it for the Library of Congress and never took credit for the songs he recorded, so there isn't any telling how old this song is or who wrote any of it. Sadly, we'll never know. I apologize for the run-on sentence.

[theivorydome]

Very strange to come across this by accident, I had no clue it was such an old song I first heard Nick Drake's version called 'Kimbie', which he covered from Jackson C. Frank, I really thought Frank wrote it, Lunsford tells me otherwise. Great music though. Thanks for posting.

[majorhoop]

if roger mcguin of the birds early in his career didnt hear this guy i'd be very surprised.......

[jamieclark420]

Why isnt there more songs of his? I thought he made thousands of recordings