Old Joe
This is an original song. Since the cd is about honoring the history of this music, I wrote the song while thinking about the melody of Old Joe Clark; but made it slower, did it in a minor key, and changed the b part. I wrote the song about an imaginary slave named “Old Joe” because most people don’t know that the history of this music is so intertwined with slavery, and slaves from Africa contributed significantly to the origins of American Music.