Polkabilly Rebels (Amerikansuomalaisia Lauluja)

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Release Date: 2010

Label: Poko Rekords

The booklet contains lyrics both in Finnish and English.

1. (The Pig Killing Song) Jingo Viitala from Toivola, Michigan handed down this song.
2. (The Yellow Rose Of Texas) Jingo said she was the only Finnish-language hillbilly singer in America.
3. (The Battle Of New Orleans) Jingo made American songs out of Finnish songs and vice versa.
4. (The Silver Dagger) An old American folk song.
5. (A Merchant In India) An old Finnish folk ballad, that Aapo Juhani sang to Alan Lomax for the Library Of Congress in Calumet, Michigan in 1938.
6. (Vingelska) Another song from Aapo Juhani.
7. (Wabash Cannonball) An American folk song, translated from English to Finnish by Jingo in the 1950's.
8. (Amasa Blues) A Polkabilly Rebels original.
9. (Hilkka Taskinen) The melody is based on an American folk song called "A Lazy Farmer Boy".
10. (Cherished Master) American spiritual Wayfaring Stranger with Lyrics as sang by Manta Halttunen of Alahärmä, recorded in 1942.
11. (The Devil He Taught Me How To Sing) It's a Lännen-Jukka thing...
12. (Karelian Boys) Lyrically, a not-so-rude version of a Finnish folk song.

Recorded at Sonic Pump Studios in Helsinki, November 2009 and January 2010.
Mixed at Arabia Studios in January and February 2010.

In memory of Jenny "Jingo" (Viitala) Vachon 1918-2009.

℗&© 2010 Jukan Productions Oy / Poko Rekords / Oy EMI Finland Ab

Made in EU.

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