{"id":584,"date":"2012-08-24T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T21:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/?p=584"},"modified":"2019-12-13T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T21:20:13","slug":"82412-rock-island-line-cat-fight-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/2012\/08\/24\/82412-rock-island-line-cat-fight-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"8\/24\/12 &#8211; &#8220;Rock Island Line&#8221; Cat Fight Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Friday Night Cat Fight Podcast<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8220;Rock Island Line&#8221;<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2012\/08\/rock_island_title.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-585\" title=\"Rock Island Line\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2012\/08\/rock_island_title-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2012\/08\/rock_island_title-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2012\/08\/rock_island_title-1024x754.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2012\/08\/rock_island_title.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This week&#8217;s &#8220;Friday Night Cat Fight&#8221; features the classic American folk tune, &#8220;Rock Island Line,&#8221; which was first discovered by musicologist John Lomax in 1934.\u00a0 Lomax was making his way through the South recording and preserving folk music for the Library Of Congress.\u00a0 It was at a penitentiary in Arkansas that he came across Kelly Pace and his group and they sang &#8220;Rock Island Line&#8221; for him.\u00a0 It is documented that this tune was very popular among inmates, who sang it as they worked the prison yards.\u00a0 Leadbelly also heard the tune while in prison and he first recorded it in 1937.\u00a0 The version by Leadbelly up for competition this week, though was taking from a 1940 session he had with the Golden Gate Quartet.\u00a0 <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">There are also five more versions of &#8220;Rock Island Line&#8221; vying for your vote, including the most popular one to date by British Skiffle sensation Lonnie Donegan.\u00a0 His version was released in 1955 and went to #8 on the US charts in 1956.\u00a0 Charting versions by Don Cornell and Johnny Cash are also featured.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Listen to the podcast in full and then decide which version of &#8220;Rock Island Line&#8221; you DIG THE MOST!\u00a0 Then, voice your choice and vote below.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>MERCY<\/p>\n<p><strong><div id=\"polls-101\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_101\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/FNCF\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_101_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"332778c1d4\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"101\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_multiple_ans_101\" name=\"poll_multiple_ans_101\" value=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Which One Do You DIG THE MOST? - \"Rock Island Line\"<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-101-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-354\" name=\"poll_101\" value=\"354\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-354\">Kelly Pace &amp; Group (1934)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-355\" name=\"poll_101\" value=\"355\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-355\">Leadbelly &amp; The Golden Gate Quartet (1940)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-356\" name=\"poll_101\" value=\"356\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-356\">Odetta &amp; Larry (1954)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-357\" name=\"poll_101\" value=\"357\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-357\">Lonnie Donegan &amp; His Skiffle Group (1955)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-358\" name=\"poll_101\" value=\"358\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-358\">Don Cornell (1956)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-359\" name=\"poll_101\" value=\"359\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-359\">Bobby Darin (1956)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-360\" name=\"poll_101\" value=\"360\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-360\">Johnny Cash (1970)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(101);\" onkeypress=\"poll_result(101);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(101); return false;\" onkeypress=\"poll_result(101); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-101-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3793\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-584-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF104.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF104.mp3\">https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF104.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF104.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/?powerpress_pinw=584-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF104.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"FNCF104.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Friday Night Cat Fight with Matt The Cat features several versions of the classic American folk tune, &#8220;Rock Island Line.&#8221;  Listen to the podcast and then vote for the version that you DIG THE MOST!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,11,69],"tags":[9,8,16,107,22],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blues","category-doo-wop","category-rock-n-roll","tag-friday-night-cat-fight","tag-matt-the-cat","tag-podcast","tag-rock-island-line","tag-train-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}