as described in the song he recorded back in the 1930s – and rejuvenated nearly 40 years later by Eric Clapton and Cream. The 29 songs he recorded (plus 12 alternate takes) show a musician who ...

Many of the best known hobo songs of the 1930s were written by urban sophisticates who never spent a moment in an open boxcar. Tunesmiths Waldo O'Neal ("Hobo Bill's Last Ride") and Carson Robinson ...