Mixtapes for Hookers


Goin’ To Heaven In A Ground Pea Shell
July 9, 2009, 3:25 pm
Filed under: money (lack of), music

Because I spent most of today figuring out my stupid rent situation, here’s a song for the destitute.  It’s Elizabeth Cotten’s version of Shake Sugaree, a Cotten wrote with her grandchildren.  Notable covers include one by the sadly neglected Fred Neil on his Everybody’s Talkin’ album, and one by Mary Lou Lord on her major-label outing Got No Shadow.

Cotten’s version appears in the depressing but lovable 1991 Vietnam-era film Dogfight, for those of you recognize the song and spent some part of your life obsessed with River Phoenix and/or Lili Taylor.


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