The
Barefoot Boys | Sweetwater Passage
independent
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In case you didn’t notice (or you’re just stuck
up in the hills), there’s a big river winding through
the middle of these parts, a major part of local and national
history… remember Sal on the Erie Canal? The Barefoot
Boys (Rick Bala on guitar, Rick Hill on bass, guitars, and
bowed psaltry, and Tom White on every acoustic instrument
on the planet; all three singing) put you right down on the
Hudson River waterfront, where “in their ports and
in their piers, ‘canawlers’ and whalemen mingled
with lumberjacks and landlubbers, who were mixed among sloop
captains and steamboat crews. Their singing and playing could
be heard down by the wharves, in the taverns and inns nearby,
[…] songs and tunes were learned from the sailors
of the docked clippers, schooners, and whaleboats from other
parts of the world.” Great old tunes picked and sung
by some true salty dogs.
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