folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has ...
ian, songwriter, and working farmer from
Mandan, North Dakota
Mandan is a city on the eastern border of Morton County and the eighth-largest city in North Dakota. Founded in 1879 on the west side of the upper Missouri River, it was designated in 1881 as the county seat of Morton County. The population was ...
. Among his albums are ''Much to Share'' (1986) and ''Dancing Dakota'' (1989) on
Flying Fish Records
Flying Fish Records was a record label founded in Chicago in 1974 that specialized in folk, blues, and country music. In the 1990s the label was sold to Rounder Records.
Bruce Kaplan, the label's founder, was a native of Chicago and the son of ...
, ''Dakota Breezes'' (1993), ''Same Road Home'' (1996), ''Different Line of Time'' (1999), ''Evening in Paris'' (2004), and ''Unraveling Heart'' (2008).
Chuck Suchy is North Dakota's Official State Troubadour.
One of his folk ballads, featured on his ''Much to Share,'' ''Dancing Dakota,'' and ''Dakota Breezes'' CDs, is ''The Story of Hazel Miner.'' The folk ballad tells the story of
Hazel Miner
Hazel Dulcie Miner (April 11, 1904 – March 16, 1920), a student at a rural Great Plains one-room school, died while protecting her 10-year-old brother, Emmet, and 8-year-old sister, Myrdith, from the spring blizzard of 1920 in Center, Oliver ...
, a 15-year-old girl who died saving her brother and sister during a March 1920 blizzard in
Center, North Dakota
Center is a city in Oliver County, North Dakota, United States. It is the county seat of, and the only incorporated place in, Oliver County. The population was 588 at the 2020 census.
History
Center was founded in 1902. The city was named from ...
.
His song "Burma Shave Boogie" (from his 2008 Unraveling Heart CD) incorporates several rhymes from old
Burma-Shave
Burma-Shave was an American brand of brushless shaving cream, famous for its advertising gimmick of posting humorous rhyming poems on small sequential highway roadside signs.
History
Burma-Shave was introduced in 1925 by the Burma-Vita compan ...
roadside signs into its lyrics.
His song "Indian Dreamer" (from his 1999 Different Line of Time CD) celebrates both the
Prairie Public Television
Prairie Public Television is a state network of public television stations operated primarily by Prairie Public Broadcasting. It comprises all of the PBS member stations in the U.S. state of North Dakota.
The state network is available via flag ...
Prairie Public Television
Prairie Public Television is a state network of public television stations operated primarily by Prairie Public Broadcasting. It comprises all of the PBS member stations in the U.S. state of North Dakota.
The state network is available via flag ...