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'The Be Good Tanyas formed in 1999 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Samantha Parton had been living on the road as a tree planter and wandering and making music, when she met Jolie Holland"   

Gee it's wood, under the hood

Pine piston seized 

Burl on note knees 

Splinter of life 

Stuck in the ground

Water and sun see what we found

 

B good sweet bee food

No ain't in the mood

I've nuthin to prove

Thought you unnerstood 

Roll or grow moss 

Hills made to be crost 

Take roots as ya roam

Yodel a home 

Once clearing it's said

Planted a bed 

That maple got cred 

As a rosebud sled   

         ***

Cradle did rock  

"Rock a bye baby on the tree top,

When the wind blows the cradle will rock,

When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,

And down will come baby, cradle and all."

The rhyme is believed to have first appeared in print in Mother Goose's Melody (London c. 1765), 

possibly published by John Newbery, and which was reprinted in Boston in 1785. 

No copies of the first edition are extant, but a 1791 edition substitutes "Hush-a-by baby" at the start of the first line

 The rhyme is followed by a note: "This may serve as a warning to the proud and ambitious, who climb so high that they generally fall at last."  

The Tanyas gained US exposure when the Showtime series The L Word selected one of their songs, "In Spite of All the Damage", for inclusion on its soundtrack. A live version of "In My Time of Dying" was also included in the third episode of the third season, in which Ford was featured as a nun and played the song in the opening sequence. 

 The track "The Littlest Birds" was played during the first season of the Showtime series Weeds and was included on the soundtrack. The band's music has also featured in the CTV series The Eleventh Hour and in the film Because of Winn-Dixie. Their cover of Townes Van Zandt's "Waiting Around to Die" was also used in "Bit by a Dead Bee", an episode of AMC's Breaking Bad. Their rendition of "What Are They Doing in Heaven?" was played on the episode "Searchers" of the AMC series Hell on Wheels 

"i maginations have been stretched to give the rhyme significance". They list a variety of claims that have been made, without endorsing any of them

*that the baby represents the Egyptian deity Horus

*that the first line is a corruption of the French "He bas! là le loup!" (Hush! There's the wolf!)

*that it was written by an English Mayflower colonist who observed the way Native American women rocked their babies in birch-bark cradles, suspended from the branches of trees

*that it lampoons the British royal line in the time of James II.

*In Derbyshire, England, one local legend has it that the song relates to a local character in the late 18th century, Betty Kenny (Kate Kenyon), who 

 lived in a huge yew tree in Shining Cliff Woods in the Derwent Valley, where 

 a hollowed-out bough served as a cradle " 

"Rock-a-bye baby and Bye baby bunting come to us from the Indians, as they had a custom of cradling their pappooses among the swaying branches" 

"Cradle Will Rock is a 1999 American historical drama film written, produced and directed by Tim Robbins. The story fictionalizes the true events that surrounded the development of the 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein; 

 it adapts history to create an account of the original production, bringing in other stories of the time to produce a social commentary on the role of art and power in the 1930s,  

particularly amidst the struggles of the labor movement at the time and the corresponding appeal of socialism and communism among many intellectuals, 

 artists and working-class people in the same period. " 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_Will_Rock

Starring

Hank Azaria

Rubén Blades

Joan Cusack

John Cusack

Cary Elwes

Philip Baker Hall

Cherry Jones

Angus Macfadyen

Bill Murray

Vanessa Redgrave

Susan Sarandon

John Turturro

Emily Watson 

"At the height 

 of the Great Depression, the Federal Theatre Project, led by Hallie Flanagan, brings low-cost theater to millions across America. .

FTP and other projects of the Works Progress Administration face anti-communist criticism and increasing government pressure led by the new House Committee on Un-American Activities."  

'2010, Frazey Ford released her debut solo album, Obadiah, which featured Klein on guitar. Ford said making the recording allowed her to explore soul music more than she had with the Be Good Tanyas. She also noted that some of the songs reflected her role as a new parent, [and she had enjoyed] "exploring the concepts that are relevant to my life in terms of motherhood and generations" 

"one of the founding members of The Be Good Tanyas. Holland left the band before the release of their debut album, Blue Horse, on which she appears prominently. She returned to San Francisco, where she recorded her first album, 2002's Catalpa. 

 Originally self-released, the album was later picked up and re-released by ANTI-. In 2004 she released her first album for ANTI-, 2004's Escondida.  

ANTI- labelmates Tom Waits and Sage Francis are both outspoken fans of Holland's: Waits nominated her for the Shortlist music prize" 

2016, she reunited with Be Good Tanyas bandmate Samantha Parton and they began touring as a duo, 

releasing the jointly-credited album Wildflower Blues, on Cinquefoil Records

"with Wildflower Blues, they begin a new chapter in their ever-evolving creative relationship. On the album's ten tracks, they weave together influences spanning jazz, blues, country, folk, rock, experimental, and the great wide history of American song, into their own kind of soul music. 

 Wildflower Blues features mostly original tracks written by Holland and Parton, as well as reimagined versions of songs by  

Bob Dylan, Michael Hurley, and Townes Van Zandt." 

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Jocko's Lament 03:29 

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