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Sis Cunningham

Sis Cunningham

Sis Cunningham has been played on NTS in shows including Smithsonian Folkways , featured first on 27 January 2023. Songs played include Jesse James and My Oklahoma Home.

Agnes ("Sis") Cunningham (19 February 1909, Watonga, Okla.–27 June 2004) was an American musician, best known for her involvement as a performer and publicist of folk music and protest songs. She was the founding editor of Broadside magazine, which she published with her husband Gordon Friesen and their daughters. She was also a songwriter: her song "How Can You Keep on Movin' Unless You Migrate Too?" found its way into Woody Guthrie's Dustbowl Ballads, and was also recorded by Ry Cooder (who was unaware of its authorship and attributed it as "Traditional").

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Sis Cunningham

Sis Cunningham has been played on NTS in shows including Smithsonian Folkways , featured first on 27 January 2023. Songs played include Jesse James and My Oklahoma Home.

Agnes ("Sis") Cunningham (19 February 1909, Watonga, Okla.–27 June 2004) was an American musician, best known for her involvement as a performer and publicist of folk music and protest songs. She was the founding editor of Broadside magazine, which she published with her husband Gordon Friesen and their daughters. She was also a songwriter: her song "How Can You Keep on Movin' Unless You Migrate Too?" found its way into Woody Guthrie's Dustbowl Ballads, and was also recorded by Ry Cooder (who was unaware of its authorship and attributed it as "Traditional").

Original source: Last.fm

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Jesse James
Sis Cunningham, Mike Millius, Wes Houston
Smithsonian Folkways2015
My Oklahoma Home
Sis Cunningham
Folkways Records1976