Music saves a life

[AribertDeckers]

15.2.2025
Music saves a life

This is an old recording, now 97 years old. Made a long time ago, but with an impressively good sound. And a story one never would get to know when simply hunting for music, or new recordings. So I give it a place here.

And, frankly speaking, I do hate the new recordings of the is song. But this old one, I love it. I do.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8NJ-MIfFHI

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Henry Thomas - Going Up The Country (1928)
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The original name of this song is Bull Doze Blues.
With Going Up The Country, more people will find this song thats why i kept it Going Up The Country.
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@gareth4157
1 year ago

My great-grandfather fought in WW1 for Great Britain (he was Scottish), in 1918 he befriended an American soldier who offered him work on his family's cattle farm in Huntsville after the war. Great grandad was lost mentally and craved a sea change, so he accepted the offer. In the mid 1920s he wrote in his diary about seeing an amazing black musician called 'Rag Rhyme Texas'. His music reached him in ways no other white music had before, and it transformed his outlook forever.

He returned to Scotland in the Great Depression, and in 1968 his nephew played the Canned Heat version on his record player. Great grandad nearly had a heart attack and broke down in tears, that panpipe chorus was unforgettable he said. After much research my uncle found the record of Henry Thomas in the 70s, and we learned that his nickname was actually 'Ragtime Texas'.

This is a story our family passes down from generation to generation, and we owe Henry Thomas so much in helping our family out of a very dark place.
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