Sweet Corrina
Traditional
Kate Power - Collings OM-2 in dadgad tuning
Steve - Guitar solos, 1934 Gibson L-00 Guitar
Steve - Guitar solos, 1934 Gibson L-00 Guitar
Producer - Jon Neufeld
Portland Romance, Track 9
I first heard Michael Cooney sing this song at the Fox Hollow festival in Troy, New York when I was around sixteen years old. My friend, Rob Goldstein worked at Izzy Young's Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, and he had room for one more in his VW bug if I wanted to go up. David Bromberg rode in the front passenger seat and played my little Martin New Yorker the whole hundred-plus miles from NYC. I listened to him from the back seat, knowing my guitar was in good hands. Bromberg was just hitting his stride about then.
Michael Cooney sat down on stage and sang this sweet song and I have been singing Sweet Corrina ever since - one of those songs you sing for yourself. Not in concert, not on recordings, this was one of the home songs, more privately enjoyed without the blather of the rest. The weeping willow lyric takes me back to the girl I was when I first heard Cooney sing it - before I was married, before I was a grandmother. Some songs are charmed for life. This is one. ~k
Michael Cooney sat down on stage and sang this sweet song and I have been singing Sweet Corrina ever since - one of those songs you sing for yourself. Not in concert, not on recordings, this was one of the home songs, more privately enjoyed without the blather of the rest. The weeping willow lyric takes me back to the girl I was when I first heard Cooney sing it - before I was married, before I was a grandmother. Some songs are charmed for life. This is one. ~k
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