[lbo-talk] Side Note On Long Black Veil

[Andrew Harrison-Cantrell]

The song, composed by Marijohn Wilkin and Danny Dill in 1959, revived the
great Lefty Frizzell's career.  It was apparently written to evoke
Appalachian ballads and old hillbilly music so as to capitalize on the
contemporary craze for folk music.  I think Lefty's version is the best,
followed closely by Cash's,  but Don Walser's version gives 'em both a run
for their money: resonant, haunting, and mournful as a Depression hymn. 
They don't call him the Pavaroti of the Plains for nothin'.

--AC

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A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in
chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains --
let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court
of morality!  -- Leon Trotsky, _Their Morals and Ours_.