SoundClick artist: Steve Suffet - Old fashioned folksinger in the People's Music tradition.

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Steve Suffet - Old fashioned folksinger

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» genre: Acoustic > Folk

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New York City NY USA
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phone: 718-786-1533

» label: Steve Suffet Music (own indie label)

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Run, Children, Run

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Traditional African-American folk song about escaping from slavery. Lead vocals and guitar by Steve Suffet, banjo by Eric Levine, additional vocals by Anne Price and Jody Koolodzey.

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Arrangement copyright by Steve Suffet
I've Been Up On the Mountain
Mon Sep 14, 2009
Acoustic : Folk

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» highest in charts: # 186 (125,799 songs currently listed in Acoustic)
» highest in sub-genre: # 22 (10,232 songs currently listed in Acoustic > Folk)

About the song

Adapted from a traditional African-American song about escaping from slavery. The "paddarollers" were actually patrollers, armed posses who hunted down runaway slaves. Anne Price adds back-up vocals on the choruses. Jody Kolodzey adds a third vocal part to the codas.