EVEN TO close friends, the Weavers’ 1950 recording of “Goodnight Irene” was as puzzling as if Soviet dictator Josef Stalin had picked up a fiddle and done three minutes of “Turkey in the Straw. The ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. First recorded in 1934 by Lead Belly the 'Homicidal Harmoniser', David Cheal follows the waltzing lament of ...