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Ain't No Tellin'

from Pay It Back by LP Kelly

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More commonly recorded as "Make Me a Pallet On the Floor" by everyone from the Memphis Jug Band to Doc Watson to Gillian Welch. My reference is the Mississippi John Hurt version ("Ain't No Tellin'") from 1928. Hurt's recordings from the 1920s were not commercially successful and he spent the next 40 years working as a sharecropper near Avalon, Mississippi until the folk revival of the 1960s put him on national stages. The photograph on the cover of Pay It Back is of the country store in Avalon where Hurt would play weekend concerts for his friends and neighbors. I keep a tuft of Avalon cotton in my guitar case as part of my mojo, along with a spoonful of dirt from Hollandale, Mississippi (home of Sam Chatmon) and a spoonful of dirt from Holly Ridge, Mississippi (resting place of Charley Patton).

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from Pay It Back, released June 10, 2020

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The sound of LP Kelly (formerly Old Man Kelly) comes from the early days of American roots music: when bluesmen sang from front porches on hot afternoons; when swing bands played dances in speakeasies late into the night. Kelly has worked to encourage a renaissance in music that has a history and a place – music that demands the listener dig deeper to find its roots in geography and time. ... more

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