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Moonshiner

Moonshiner

“Moonshiner” in a traditional Southern American folk song with roots in Ireland. The first known recording was by Buell Kazee for Brunswick Records in 1927.

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Sep 04, 2023
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Bob Dylan recorded “Moonshiner” in the summer of 1963 between Freewheelin’ and The Times They Are A-Changin’.  It wasn’t officially released until The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 in 1991, though if you lived in the New York metropolitan area in the ’60s and listened to Bob Fass’ all-night radio show on WBAI, “Radio Unnameable,” he played it fairly often.  Sometime either in the very late ’60s or early ’70s, the song surfaced on various bootleg albums. 

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