All gods dangers a forgotten autobiography

This review contains spoilers.

This review is quite long. Here is a tl;dr: Ned Cobb (1885-1973), also known as Nate Shaw, was a black farmer in Alabama.

Ned succeeded in life despite mistreatment and the horrible racism of the American South during the Jim Crow years. He fought constantly against the blackguards who hated his skin. The man is an inspiration.

And here's a little something I wrote after reading this book and listening to too much Dylan, Guthrie—father and son—and Seeger.


Talkin' Ned Cobb Blues

Ned Cobb was a good man who hid his name for no good reason
when a white college kid paid a visit in the middle of his busy season,
and said,

"I'm recording the voices of poor ol' boys and maybe you'd like to be heard."

"Yes, sir, the voice of the blowin' wind is too soft for Tallapoosa."

He'd been bewildered and confused by three hundred years of abuse.

Cursed into the womb by his worn out father,