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To a modern audience, 'I'm on my way,' as performed by the Highwaymen, is sure to bring a contentious musical debate to the fore: what is authenticity in folk music?
Twenty-one years after the original was written and recorded by Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter,
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