365 Days #216 - Hobo Conversations and Interviews (mp3s)

MP3:
Part 1 (14:14), Part 2 (3:00), Part 3 (2:49), Part 4 (17:09), Part 5 (17:00), Part 6 (6:56), Part 7 (1:01), Part 8 (2:48), Part 9 (1:52), Part 10 (5:06), Part 11 (19:19)

Can't recall who this cassette came from, but if you are out there drop a line.  I received it on cassette around 1996 or 1997 in the mail and I do remember it came from the recorder, just can't remember who was recording this and riding the boxcars.  The only writing on the cassette is "Hobo Conversations and Interviews - Conversations with Sidedoor Pullman Kid Hop-A-Long Chet Dante and Austin John".  I think you'll really enjoy track 3 when they burst into song.

Step inside the boxcar, the whistle is about to blow.

- Contributed by: Otis Fodder

Media: Cassette
Date: 199?

Comments

[Tony]

Hobo recordings have a long and fabled history. One could argue that such musicians as Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie and others were the earliest 20th Century collectors of hobo mythology and songs. Guthrie himself considered himself a wandering hobo of sorts

Alan Lomax made hobo recordings in the deep south - and let's not forget Harry Partch and his "hobo symphonies" - the list goes on and on

your hobo recordings make a fine addition to hobo lore, sadly not enough field recordists are brave enough to approach the drug-addicted and suicidal hobos of our day - THANKS-TONY