AIN'T NO MORE CANE ON THIS BRAZOS

 

 JAMES ( IRON HEAD ) BAKER 

 

Leemos .... 

El hombre se llamaba LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS y era de fuera de Centerville - Texas , y esta era una canción que había escuchado cuando era joven, trabajando en el campo. Su propia canción era una remodelación y reelaboración de la vieja canción del trabajo en algo intensamente personal y expresivo que había cambiado en un blues. Samuel B. Charters . The Country Blues. 

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" Ain't No More Cane on This Brazos   (  * )   " es una canción tradicional del trabajo carcelario del sur de los Estados Unidos . El título se refiere al trabajo asignado a los presos condenados a trabajos forzados en Texas . El trabajo consistía en cortar caña de azúcar a lo largo de las orillas del río Brazos , donde se ubicaban muchas de las granjas penitenciarias del estado a fines del siglo XIX y principios del XX.

Ha sido grabado por Alan Lomax en su grabación de 1958 Texas Folk Songs Sung by Alan Lomax como "Ain't No More Cane on This Brazis", Odetta , Lonnie Donegan , the Limeliters en su álbum 14 14K Folksongs (1963), Son Volt en el álbum A Retrospective: 1995-2000 , y The Band en el álbum Across the Great Divide . Bob Dylan también interpretó la canción en vivo a principios de la década de 1960 .y su versión está en múltiples grabaciones piratas tomadas de The Gaslight Cafe. Un extenso conjunto de letras de la canción, tal como la cantaron los presos de Central State Farm cerca de Houston , Texas, aparece en el libro del folclorista John Lomax American Ballads and Folk Songs , publicado originalmente en 1934. Lomax recopiló otra versión de la canción en una grabación de una actuación de Ernest Williams y James (Iron Head) Baker; la grabación aparece en el álbum Registros de documentos Field Recordings, Vol. 6: Texas (1933-1958) .

La canción a veces se atribuye a Huddie Ledbetter ( Lead Belly ), pero una grabación de él cantando la canción es oscura o inexistente. Una canción titulada "Ain't No More Cane on this Brazos" no aparece en la extensa discografía de las grabaciones de Leadbelly contenidas en el libro de Charles Wolfe y Kip Lornell The Life and Legend of Leadbelly . Alan Lomax sugiere, en las notas de su grabación, otra fuente de la comunidad carcelaria de Texas. Posiblemente la canción se asoció con Leadbelly a través de sus varias grabaciones de otra canción de la prisión de Texas titulada "Go Down, Ol 'Hannah" que comparte algunos versos con "Ain't No More Cane on this Brazos".

En 2006, Band of Heathens con su arreglo distintivo lo incluyó en su álbum Live at Momo . En 2007, Lyle Lovett lanzó dos versiones de la melodía en su álbum It's Not Big, It's Large . El 16 de febrero de 2008, Lovett y John Hiatt interpretaron la canción en vivo en el Ulster Performing Arts Center en Kingston, Nueva York, junto con Garth Hudson de The Band . El 14 de febrero de 2013, Lovett también interpretó esta canción con su amigo Robert Earl Keen en Rudder Auditorium en el campus de su Alma mater, Texas A&M University . 

"Ain't No More Cane" aparece en la película Festival Express , donde Rick Danko , Janis Joplin , John "Marmaduke" Dawson , Jerry García , Bob Weir y varios otros músicos la cantan borrachos en el tren que va al siguiente concierto en la gira.

La canción, como "Ain't No More Cane on the Brazos", también fue versionada por el cantante Ian Gillan de Deep Purple para su álbum en solitario de 1990 Naked Thunder . El Chad Mitchell Trio grabó la canción en su álbum de 1963 Singin 'our Mind . Otras portadas incluyen The Black Crowes . Chris Smither también cubrió "No More Cane on the Brazos" en su CD de 1998 "Happier Blue". Bill Staines grabó la canción en su álbum Miles de 1975 . También fue cubierto por Lonnie Donnegan en 1958 y por la banda canadiense Crowbar en Larger than Life (And Live'r than You've Ever Been) (1971, Daffodil 2-SBA-16007) (grabado en concierto enMassey Hall , Toronto, Ontario , Canadá). The Wood Brothers también grabó una versión de esta canción en su álbum en vivo Live Vol.2 Nail & Tooth . La letra de la canción "Capitán, no me hagas como lo hiciste, pobre y viejo Shine" fue la inspiración para Poor Old Shine, el nombre anterior de la banda Parsonsfield. La canción también ha sido versionada por la banda, The Magpie Salute, formada por los ex miembros de Black Crowes Rich Robinson, Marc Ford y Sven Pipien. Se puede encontrar en su álbum debut principalmente en vivo, "The Magpie Salute".

Letra

La letra de la versión de The Band, que a menudo se atribuye a Leadbelly, es la siguiente: 

No hay más bastón en los brazos

Todo ha sido molido a melaza

Deberías haber estado en el río en 1910

Conducían a las mujeres como conducían a los hombres.

Baja por Old Hannah, no te levantes más

No te levantes hasta el día del juicio final seguro

No hay más bastón en los brazos

Todo ha sido molido a melaza

Capitán, no me hagas como lo hiciste, pobre y viejo Shine

Bueno, condujiste a ese matón hasta que se quedó ciego

Despierta en tu vida, levanta tu propia cabeza

Bueno, puedes obtener un perdón y luego caer muerto

No hay más bastón en los brazos

Todo se ha reducido a melaza.


En este primer audio os ofrecemos la que seguramente es una de las primeras grabaciones que se efectuaron del tema. Mas abajo podéis oir algunas de las diferentes versiones que se han hecho a lo largo del tiempo. 




"Ain't No More Cane on This Brazos" is a traditional prison work song of the Southern United States. The title refers to work assigned to prisoners sentenced to hard labor in Texas. The labor involved cutting sugar cane along the banks of the Brazos River, where many of the state's prison farms were located in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

It has been recorded by Alan Lomax on his 1958 recording Texas Folk Songs Sung by Alan Lomax as "Ain't No More Cane on This Brazis", Odetta, Lonnie Donegan, the Limeliters on their album 14 14K Folksongs (1963), Son Volt on the album A Retrospective: 1995-2000, and The Band on the album Across the Great Divide. Bob Dylan also performed the song live in the early 1960s[1] and his version is on multiple bootleg recordings taken from The Gaslight Cafe. An extensive set of lyrics to the song, as sung by inmates of Central State Farm near Houston, Texas, appears in folklorist John Lomax's book American Ballads and Folk Songs, originally published in 1934. Lomax collected another version of the song in a recording of a performance by Ernest Williams and James (Iron Head) Baker; the recording appears on the Document Records album Field Recordings, Vol. 6: Texas (1933-1958).

The song is sometimes attributed to Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly), but a recording of him singing the song is obscure or non-existent. A song titled "Ain't No More Cane on this Brazos" does not appear in the extensive discography of Leadbelly recordings contained in Charles Wolfe and Kip Lornell's book The Life and Legend of Leadbelly. Alan Lomax suggests, in the notes for his recording, another source from the Texas prison community. Possibly the song became associated with Leadbelly through his various recordings of another Texas prison song titled "Go Down, Ol' Hannah" which shares some verses with "Ain't No More Cane on this Brazos".

In 2006, Band of Heathens with their distinctive arrangement included it on their Live at Momo's album. In 2007 Lyle Lovett released two versions of the tune on his album It's Not Big, It's Large. On February 16, 2008, Lovett and John Hiatt performed the song live at the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston, New York, along with The Band's Garth Hudson. On February 14, 2013, Lovett also performed this song with friend Robert Earl Keen at Rudder Auditorium on the campus of their Alma mater, Texas A&M University.

"Ain't No More Cane" is featured in the film Festival Express, where Rick Danko, Janis Joplin, John "Marmaduke" Dawson, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and various other musicians drunkenly sing it while on the train going to the next concert on the tour.

The song, as "Ain't No More Cane on the Brazos", was also covered by the singer Ian Gillan of Deep Purple fame for his 1990 solo-album Naked Thunder. The Chad Mitchell Trio recorded the song on their 1963 album Singin' our Mind. Other covers include The Black Crowes. Chris Smither also covered "No More Cane on the Brazos" on his 1998 CD "Happier Blue". Bill Staines recorded the song on his 1975 album Miles. It was also covered by Lonnie Donnegan in 1958 and by Canadian band Crowbar on Larger than Life (And Live'r than You've Ever Been) (1971, Daffodil 2-SBA-16007) (recorded in concert at Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada). A version of this song is also recorded by The Wood Brothers on their live album Live Vol.2 Nail & Tooth. The song's lyric "Captain don't you do me like you done poor old Shine" was the inspiration for Poor Old Shine, the previous band name for the band Parsonsfield. The song has also been covered by the band, The Magpie Salute, consisting of former Black Crowes members Rich Robinson, Marc Ford, and Sven Pipien. It can be found on their mostly live debut album, "The Magpie Salute".

Lyrics

The lyrics to The Band's version, which are often attributed to Leadbelly, are as follows:

Ain't no more cane on the Brazos

It's all been ground down to molasses

You shoulda been on the river in 1910

They were driving the women just like they drove the men.

Go down Old Hannah, don'cha rise no more

Don't you rise up til Judgement Day's for sure

Ain't no more cane on the Brazos

It's all been ground down to molasses

Captain don't you do me like you done poor old Shine

Well ya drove that bully til he went stone blind

Wake up on a lifetime, hold up your own head

Well you may get a pardon and then you might drop dead

Ain't no more cane on the Brazos

It's all been ground down to molasses.






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El río Brazos ( / b r æ z ə s / ( escuchar ) Sobre este sonido BRASIL -əs ), llamado el Río de los Brazos de Dios (traducido como "el río de los brazos de Dios") por los primeros exploradores españoles, es el 11 -el río más largo de los Estados Unidos a 1.280 millas (2.060 km) de su nacimiento en la cabecera de Blackwater Draw , condado de Roosevelt, Nuevo México ] hasta su desembocadura en el Golfo de México con 45.000 millas cuadradas (116.000 km 2 ) cuenca de drenaje. Al ser uno de los ríos más grandes de Texas, a veces se usa para marcar el límite entre el este de Texas y el oeste de Texas .

El río está estrechamente asociado con la historia de Texas, en particular el asentamiento de Austin y las eras de la Revolución de Texas . Hoy en día, las principales instituciones de Texas como la Universidad Baylor y la Universidad Texas A&M están ubicadas cerca del río, al igual que partes del área metropolitana de Houston.

El Brazos propiamente dicho comienza en la confluencia de Salt Fork y Double Mountain Fork , dos afluentes del Upper Brazos que se elevan en las llanuras altas del Llano Estacado , fluyendo 840 millas (1350 km) al sureste a través del centro de Texas. Otro afluente importante del Upper Brazos es el río Clear Fork Brazos , que pasa por Abilene y se une al río principal cerca de Graham . Los afluentes importantes del Bajo Brazos incluyen el río Paluxy , el río Bosque , el río Little , el arroyo Yegua , el río Nolan y el río León., el río San Gabriel , el río Lampasas y el río Navasota .

Inicialmente corriendo hacia el este hacia Dallas - Fort Worth , el Brazos gira hacia el sur, pasando por Waco y el campus de la Universidad de Baylor , más al sur hasta cerca de Calvert, Texas, luego pasando Bryan y College Station , luego a través de Richmond, Texas en el condado de Fort Bend , y desemboca en el Golfo de México en las marismas al sur de Freeport . 

El tallo principal del Brazos está represado en tres lugares, todos al norte de Waco, formando Possum Kingdom Lake , Lake Granbury y Lake Whitney . De estos tres, Granbury fue el último en completarse, en 1969. Cuando se propuso su construcción a mediados de la década de 1950, John Graves escribió el libro Goodbye to a River . La presa Whitney, ubicada en la parte superior de Brazos, proporciona energía hidroeléctrica, control de inundaciones e irrigación para permitir el crecimiento eficiente del algodón en el valle del río. [4]Una pequeña presa municipal (presa del lago Brazos) está cerca del límite de la ciudad aguas abajo de Waco al final del campus de Baylor; eleva el nivel del río a través de la ciudad para formar un lago de pueblo. Este embalse de Brazos a través de Waco se llama localmente Lake Brazos. Un total de diecinueve reservorios importantes se encuentran a lo largo de Brazos. 

An advertisement for the steamboat Yellow Stone, December 1836. Packet service between Quintana and Washington, Republic of Texas.

In 1822, the lower river valley of the Brazos River became one of the major Anglo-American settlement sites in Texas. This was one of the first English-speaking colonies along the Brazos and was founded by Stephen F. Austin at San Felipe de Austin.In 1836, Texas declared independence from Mexico at Washington-on-the-Brazos, a settlement in now Washington County that is known as "the birthplace of Texas". Brazos River was also the scene of a battle between the Texas Navy and Mexican Navy during the Texas Revolution. Texas Navy ship Independence was defeated by one Mexican vessel.

It is unclear when it was first named by European explorers, since it was often confused with the Colorado River not far to the south, but it was certainly seen by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. Later Spanish accounts call it Los Brazos de Dios (the arms of God), for which name there were several different explanations, all involving it being the first water to be found by desperately thirsty parties. In 1842, Indian commissioner of Texas, Ethan Stroud established a trading post on this river.

The river was important for navigation before and after the American Civil War, and steam boats sailed as far up the river as Washington-on-the-Brazos. While attempts to improve commercial navigation on the river continued, railroads proved more reliable. The Brazos River also flooded, often seriously, on a regular basis before a piecemeal levee system was replaced, notably in 1913 when a massive flood affected the course of the river. The river is primarily important today as a source of water for power, irrigation, and recreation. The water is administered by the Brazos River Authority.

The 2000 book, Sandbars and Sternwheelers: Steam Navigation on the Brazos by Pamela A. Puryear and Nath Winfield, Jr., with introduction by J. Milton Nance, examines the early vessels that attempted to navigate the Brazos.

On June 2, 2016, the rising of the river required evacuations for portions of Brazoria County.[10]

Brazos watershed

The Brazos River watershed covers a total area of 119,174 square kilometers. Within the watershed lie 42 lakes and rivers which have a combined storage capacity of 2.5 million acre-feet. The Brazos watershed also has an estimated ground water availability of 119,275 acre-feet per year. Approximately 31% of the land use within the watershed is cropland. Approximately 61% is grassland (30%) shrubland (19.8%) and forest (11%) while urban use only makes up 4.6%. The population density within the watershed is 19.5 people per square kilometer.

Water quality concerns

The main water quality issues within the Brazos Watershed are high nutrient loads, high bacterial and salinity levels and low dissolved oxygen. These water quality issues can be attributed to livestock, fertilizer and chemical run off. Sources of run off are croplands, pastures, and industrial sites among others. Fracking is also cause for concern regarding water quality within the Brazos Watershed. The Barnett Shale lies partially within the watershed which is the second largest source of natural gas in the US. Studies have shown that the watershed receiving the most toxic pollution is the lower Brazos river which received 33.4 million pounds of toxic waste in 2012.

Canoeing is a very popular recreational activity on the Brazos River with many locations favorable for launching and recovery. The best paddling can be found immediately below Possum Kingdom Lake and Lake Granbury.

Sandbar Camping is also permitted since the entire streambed of the river is considered to be state-owned public property. Fishing, camping, and picnicking are legal here, including on the sandbars.[18] Several scout camps are located along the Brazos River and they support a wide range of water and shoreline activities for scouts, youth groups and family groups.

The Brazos River Authority maintains several public campsites along the river and at the lakes. Hunting and fishing are also permitted at select locations along the river.

Outdoor enthusiasts have the opportunity to view the area's scenery and the wildlife on the river. Fly fishing and river fishing for largemouth bass are common.

The Lyle Lovett covers of Steve Fromholz' songs "Texas Trilogy: Bosque County Romance" and "Texas River Song" both mention the Brazos.

The Alan Le May novel The Searchers mentions the Salt Fork of the Brazos River several times as a likely place for the protagonists to find Chief Scar, who is holding the captive child Debbie. In the 1956 film based on the novel, Mose Harper identifies the location of Chief Scar's camp as Seven Fingers, which a group of Texas Rangers identify as Seven Fingers of the Brazos.

John Graves' travel narrative Goodbye to a River takes place on the Brazos River.

The Brazos is the setting of the American folk song "Ain't No More Cane".

“Broke Down on the Brazos” is the first track on Gov’t Mule’s 2009 album By A Thread.

The Robert Earl Keen song "The Front Porch Song" contains the lyrics "the Brazos still runs muddy like she's run all along".

The Old Crow Medicine Show song "Take 'em Away" contains the lyrics "Land that I know is where two rivers collide / The Brazos, The Navasota, and the big blue sky".

The chorus to the Amanda Shires song "Mineral Wells" contains the lyrics "At night I dream I'm in the Brazos River / Pines and cypress of the West Cross Timbers".

The James Reasoner Civil War Series references the Brazos River many times as it is the goal of one of the main characters to move there after the war is over.





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