EVEN TO close friends, the Weavers’ 1950 recording of “Goodnight Irene” was as puzzling as if Soviet dictator Josef Stalin had picked up a fiddle and done three minutes of “Turkey in the Straw. The ...
All hurricanes have names, but this one has its own theme song, and a great one at that. “Goodnight, Irene” is a classic American folk song credited to Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter. In the 1950s, the ...