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From the original liner notes by Arne Fogel, from the album "You Call It Madness" (1989): "I first learned of this song in 1973, when I read W.C. Handy's autobiography "Father Of The Blues". I was intrigued by the beautiful, stately lyrics, dated as they were, as found in the book. It wasn't until ten years later that I ran across a copy of the music, on an old recording by Handy himself, made just a few years before his death. He explained on the record that the lyric refers to an idealized southland, yet one in which he fervently believed, nevertheless. This 1932 Handy composition is not well known, but it deserves to be. An interesting piece of Americana." - ARNE FOGEL-VOCAL, BUTCH THOMPSON-PIANO & CLARINET, BRUCE ALLARD-TRUMPET, PETER JOHNSON-DRUMS, BRUCE CALIN-TUBA. .....choir: GWEN MATTHEWS, MARY JANE ALM, BRUCE HENRY, PAT FREDERICK, STEVE BARNETT, ARNE FOGEL. Transcription of original vocal arrangement: LEE BLASKE.