Old Man, Will Your Dog Catch a Rabbit? - Hally Wood

Hally Wood (September 29, 1922 - July 22, 1989) was an American musician and singer.

Wood was born Harriet Elizabeth Wood in Washington, D.C., in 1922.
Wood was a classically trained musician and singer who became vitally interested in folkmusic.
As a singer she had two solo albums in the early 1950s (on the Stinson label "Hally Wood Sings Texas Folksongs" and on Elektra "Oh Lovely Appearance of Death"). She appeared on several concert and compilation albums, sang in concerts with Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Jean Ritchie, & others in the NYC area, including a concert at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, December 21, 1957 with Sonny Terry and Dave Sears.
In '79-80 she brought out a self-produced album "Songs to Live By" in Houston, and was beginning work on another in the mid-80s but was diagnosed with cancer.

As musicologist she transcribed a number of Alan Lomax field recordings (getting words & notes down on paper) and transcribed and researched a book of Leadbelly songs, Woody Guthrie songs and The New Lost City Ramblers Songbook (later renamed Old-Time Stringband Songbook), she worked on a book in Houston, Texas (with the publisher, Joseph Lomax, a nephew of Alan Lomax) and on a collection of songs written by Townes Van Zandt (entitled "for the sake of the song". Wood is credited in the preface with "musical proof-reading and lyrics corrections.")

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