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The Boy Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn

28 Thursday Jan 2016

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This is the song adaptation chronology of my slide guitar version of, The Boy Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn.

My first experience with the tune was in my teens from the Harry Smith LP box Collection on Folkways Records, a folk goldmine which my brother Mike and I would wrangle from the Fontana Library every chance we could.  The song was originally titled The Lazy Farmer Boy.

Here’s a link to that first influential 78RPM recording, which was recorded for Columbia Records in 1931 by Buster Carter and Preston Young

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