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Postman's Lament

by Sarah Spencer

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Recorded remotely by all during the 2020 COVID -19 lockdown by
Sarah Spencer's COVID Global Ramblers - a truly international group of world-class musicians.
Recorded: June, 2020

lyrics

Postman's Lament - Johnny Wiggs:

The road is hot and long. I trudge and sing my song.
Lord take this pack off my back
Oh come sweet day of days, hear what my prayers say.
Lord take this pack off my back

Down by the levee-side. I rest my weary hide.
Lord take this pack off my back
To lay my burden down, jump off the banks and drown
Lord take this pack off my back

credits

released September 25, 2020
Sarah Spencer - vocal
Clint Baker - trumpet
Jesper Capion Larsen - clarinet
Sarah Spencer - alto saxophone
Jim Fryer - trombone
Hugh Crozier - piano
Jim Swinnerton - string bass
Clint Baker - drums

Composed by Johnny Wiggs

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Sarah Spencer UK

George H. Buck, Jr.,: "Sarah plays tenor sax in the true New Orleans style of that instrument. It is nice to hear a lady who has assimilated so much of the New Orleans feeling and tradition and she is a fine blues singer in the classic tradition. New Orleans jazz fans have long considered her to be one of the finest saxophonists in the New Orleans tradition and now she added the Classic Blues" ... more

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