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'Can't Make a Living at a Cotton Mill': The Life and Hillbilly Songs of Dave McCarn
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21824
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A look at the hillbilly songs of Dave McCarn, a Gastonia, textile mill worker, who wrote about the realities of life for Southern mill workers in the 1920s-30s. McCarn's best-known recording, \"Cotton Mill Colic,\" and its two sequels, criticized the Southern textile industry for failing to pay workers a living wage.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 3, July 2003,
p297-333, il, por, f
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