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Dixon Brothers has been played on NTS shows including NTS Guide to…, with A Mother, A Father, A Baby first played on 16 December 2015.

Dorsey Dixon and his brother Howard Dixon were 2 amongst 7 total siblings, all poor mill workers before they reached their teen years in North & South Carolina. Dorsey Dixon did not start writing his own rural folk songs until age 32, but songs like "Weaver's Life", "Factory Girl", "Babies in the Mill", "The School House Fire" and "Spinning Room Blues" were infused with stories of the poor worker struggles in the southern textile mills, and were later rediscovered by…

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A Mother, A Father, A Baby
Dixon Brothers
Bear Family Records2012
A Mother, A Father, A Baby
Dixon BrothersBear Family Records2012
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The Girl I Left In Danville
Dixon Brothers
Bluebird0
The Girl I Left In Danville
Dixon BrothersBluebird0
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