In addition to the Townes Van Zandt cover and seven original tracks, Holland and Parton over new takes on Michael Hurley's "Jocko's Lament" and Bob Dylan's "Minstrel Boy."
Wildflower Blues is due out Sep. 8 on Cinquefoil Records.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fARMYa_b4Hc Jocko's Lament video
Michael Hurley at the Last Chance Barn Dance w/Forest Bloggod, David Reisch
https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/06/20/533743347/jolie-holland-samantha-parton-of-the-be-good-tanyas-reunite-for-new-album
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Lyrics
Oh the werewolf, oh the werewolf
Comes a-stepping along
He don't even break the branches
Where he's been gone
You can hear his long holler from away across the moor
That's the holler of a werewolf when he's feeling poor
He goes out in the evening when
The bats are on the wing
And he's killed some young maiden before the birds sing
For the werewolf, for the werewolf
Have sympathy
Because the werewolf he is someone
Just like you and me
Once I saw him in the moonlight
When the bats were a-flying
All alone I saw the werewolf and
The werewolf was crying
Crying, "Nobody, nobody, nobody knows
How much I love the maiden as I tear off her clothes"
Crying, "Nobody, nobody knows of my pain
When I see it has risen that full moon again"
When I see that moon moving
Through the clouds in the sky
I get a crazy feeling and I wonder why
Oh the werewolf, oh the werewolf
Comes traveling along
He don't even break the branches
Where he's been gone
For the werewolf have pity, not fear, and not hate
Because the werewolf might be someone
That you've known of late
Oh the werewolf, oh the werewolf
Comes traveling along
He don't even crush the leaves
Where he's been gone
Songwriters: Ole Evenrude / Trond Holter
Werewolf lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc
Artist: Michael Hurley
Album: Armchair Boogie
Released: 1971
Genres: Folk, Pop
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH56e2OQD0Y
Cat Power's the Werewolf, not too shabby as Jeff Jones told our Chamber Group orchestra.
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Hog of the Forsaken, Deadwood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3YxlbYiLhA
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"Peter Couchman, married to Mary Bloodgood, Cheyenne River Indian Agent
The end of the nineteenth century brought about the beginning of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians. Indian agent Peter Couchman had suggested a separate facility for Indian patients in 1897, Senator Richard Pettigrew had endorsed the suggestion, and the Indian Bureau had cooperated in forwarding his cause.
The asylum, however, was a relatively minor matter for most of the country’s population, who focused, instead, on the Spanish-American War."
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/102115186/
http://www.sdhspress.com/journal/south-dakota-history-27-3/justice-in-transition-the-murder-trial-of-straight-head-and-scares-the-hawk/vol-27-no-3-justice-in-transition.pdf
Despite the shaky evidence, the court commissioner
bound the three policemen over to the United States
grand jury set to convene at Deadwood, South Dakota, in
February 1895.
Agent Couchman objected strenuously to
the action, considering the matter long settled. In a letter
to the commissioner of Indian affairs, he called the men
involved "the best men I have on the force, [who] always
cheerfully and promptly obey their orders, and are very
careful not to go beyond them or exceed their authority
in any way."-^"'
Miller convened the grand juiy on 5 February 1893, in
Deadwood, South Dakota. John Whitlock of the original
coroner's jury questioned the location of the proceedings,
stating in a letter to Herbert Welsh of the Indian Rights Association
that Miller chose Deadwood "only because it
was thought the sentiment there was against the Indian
race."
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