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Ma Creole Belle

from On the Street Again by Marc Nerenberg

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This is essentially a fragment of a much longer old minstrel song from around 1900, from which blues great, Mississippi John Hurt, preserved two stanzas in his repertoire, dropping the rest of the song. He introduced the song, in recordings and concert performances, to a new audience during the 1960s blues revival. It’s John Hurt’s shortened revised version of the much older song that survives today. When I decided to learn it, I was hoping to find a few more lyrics by doing a Google search, and I stumbled upon, what turned out to be, the mostly offensive lyrics of the original song. I found one more usable couplet in there, and made up a couple of stanzas of my own to create this version.

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from On the Street Again, released December 8, 2020

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Marc Nerenberg Montreal, Québec

Marc Nerenberg is a veteran Montreal folksinger who plays old time banjo styles and blues harmonica. He has a narrative- centric repertoire, recounting stories in song and wrapping stories around songs. You may “be drawn in by a combination of Marc’s mastery of traditional banjo styles, his idiosyncratic singing, and [his] richly detailed ballads.” (Mike Regenstreif – Folk Roots/Folk Branches 2019) ... more

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