Saturday, February 02, 2019

Happy Groundhog Day!

Illustration from the 1899 book "Birds and Nature"
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Smithsonian Folkways
has culled from its collections a most unusual playlist—nine renditions of the widely played Southern Appalachian tune “Ground Hog,” long a favorite of musicians across North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, Kentucky and California.

Listen to the playlist here.

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