Coltt Winter Lepley - "Peg and Awl" (Traditional) // The Adapt Sessions
Channel: Coltt Winter Lepley
Date: 2021-01-01

Coltt Winter Lepley - Appalachian songwriter, author, folklorist, and Bedford, Pennsylvania's own poet laureate, covers the folk song, "Peg and Awl." The description provided by "Where Dead Voices Gather," "Peg and Awl," is a song bout industrial unemployment (a problem many Americans are facing right now). The narrator is a shoemaker who is run out of business by a machine that does his job in less time. This same theme resurfaces in the "John Henry" family of folk songs. The difference, of course, is that while John Henry famously died proving that he was the equal of the steam drill, the shoemaker in "Peg and Awl," simply surrenders. 
 
Coltt plays his late fifties, early sixties catalog Silvertone guitar he purchased and restored earlier this year. She was fighting the frigid temperatures, but we all get a little tingy in the cold. Coltt, while a folksinger, is also a published poet and fiction author currently working towards his MFA at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, where he currently resides.

This video was filmed by Charles McClanahan at Adapt Creative Co. for their YouTube series, "The Adapt Sessions," which highlights area artists. Filming took place at a private residence in the Appalachia region of Pennsylvania on Coltt's family property. 

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https://www.facebook.com/colttwinterlepley
https://www.altoonasmusicscene.com/wiki/Coltt_Winter_Lepley 

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