Grateful Dead - Jack-a-Roe
Recorded "live" at Chicago's historic Auditorium Theatre, May 13, 1977.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Grateful Dead - Jack-a-Roe
Recorded "live" at Chicago's historic Auditorium Theatre, May 13, 1977.
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Lovely.
Listening to it there, it sounded like there was an improvisation on "Take 5" struggling to the surface.
I'm assuming, too, the song is a traditional arrangement in the fashion of "House Of The Rising Sun"?
Ha, you're right, it could have easily been Take 5. Possibly a subconscious influence here.
Yes, it's traditional, but I failed to uncover any data on just how old the song is. At least 100 yrs. old, I reckon.
"Several versions, all collected in the United States, are given in Sharp's English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians... Very early versions of the song go under a variety of different titles. One is "Jack Munro"... [The version in Bodlean Library's ballad collection] is dated between 1774 and 1825..."
That is old...
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