863. Nine Hundred Miles (Traditional American) - Rod Foo

This hillbilly blues was the forerunner to the better known but less interesting "500 Miles". It was sung by Woody Guthrie, who is said to have learned it from a Negro shoeshine boy in his home town of Okema, Oklahoma. It is also known as "Reuben Blues" or "Reuben's Train" and is apparently related to "Black Girl / In the Pines."

Here it is played and sung by Rod Foo at a session of the Hong Kong Folk Society at The Canny Man in Wan Chai.

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Music

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• folk
• song
• blues
• reuben
• woody
• guthrie
• rod
• foo
• hong
• kong
• society
• canny
• man
• wanchai