"Go Lightning" the Album, Session Video Fifteen: Reuben's Train

www.reverbnation.com/jonhoganband This video is part of a series. The Jon Hogan String Band recorded the old-time album "Go Lightning" at Stephen Doster and Steven James' EAR Studios, Austin, Texas, Feb. 13, 2011. Videographer David Shane Duke shot much of the one-day session in which the band recorded traditional 16 songs on half-inch tape around a single ribbon mic. Jon Hogan, guitar and vocals, Maria Moss, guitar, Eric Gerber, mandolin and harmony vocals, Richard Bowden, fiddle, Sean "Cornbread" Andrews, washtub bass.

Session Video Fifteen: Reuben's Train

Other videos in the "Go Lightning" series:
Session Video One: "Wildwood Flower" was the 16th song we recorded, and afterwards a celebratory jam broke out around a riff from the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army".
Session Video Two: "Country Blues," inspired by Dock Boggs' arrangement.
Session Video Three: Jon Hogan a capella, "Pretty Saro"
Session Video Four: "Pretty Fair Maid in Yonder Garden," Jon Hogan with Maria Maria Moss. We based our version of this tradition song on Grisby & Young's recording that appears on Smithsonian Folkways' Mountain Music of Kentucky, Vo. II.
Session Video Five: "Other Side of Jordan," melody by Jon Hogan, lyrics as performed by Uncle Dave Macon on the Grand Ol Opry.
Session Video Six: "Lost Love Blues" was recorded by Dock Boggs on the Brunswick label in 1927. The lyrics were written by department-store magnate W.E. Meyer, who owned the Lonesome Ace ("Without a Yodel") record label, for which Boggs also recorded.
Session Video Seven: My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains, a Carter Family-Towbes Van Zandt take, arranged by Jon Hogan to include elements of both.
Session Video Eight: "Shady Grove" was originally an English folk ballad called "Mattie Grove." It was collected by James Frances Child in the 1880s; more than 300 documented stanzas and versions have been documented.
Session Video Nine: Jon Hogan's version of "Coo Coo" is based on Clarence Ashley's 1928 recording and on Ashley's later work with Doc Watson. The song dates back to 17th-century England and is believed to be an early social song, commenting on the randomness and fragility of life, and the overwhelming desire to destroy native civilizations in the name of manifest destiny. Further, the Cuckoo bird of which the song speaks is only native to England, and is best known for taking over the nests of other bird species.
Session Video Ten: Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy is based on Uncle Dave Macon's rousing showstopper, which he performed on the Grand Ol Opry for the first time in 1933. It is an example of Macon's treatment of minstrel songs from the mid-19th century.
Session Video Eleven: John Henry
Session Video Thirteen: Lost Love Blues
Session Video Fourteen: John Hardy

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