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Sandra Smith

What Happens When a Band Learns its Name was an Obscure Racial Epithet? Meet Parsonsfield.

What Happens When a Band Learns its Name was an Obscure Racial Epithet? Meet Parsonsfield.

For Poor Old Shine, it started with a song… a traditional prison work song of the American South, called “Ain’t No Cane on This Brazos.” It’s been interpreted by everyone from Dylan and the Band, to the Low Anthem, Lyle Lovett and the Wood Brothers. And it was
Sandra Smith 30 Jul 2014

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