(The song was written by Harrisonburg, VA natives Secor and Fuqua). "I'll ride you in my sleeper on the New Virginia Creeper tonight," indeed! And it gets bawdier after that. Intercourse with You/ Double Entendre: "New Virginia Creeper." The Virginia Creeper is an old nickname for the Virginia-Carolina Railway.Driven to Suicide: Implied or at least contemplated in "James River Blues." The James River boatman, realizing that the railroads have made him obsolete, finds himself without purpose.Cover Version: Besides covering country and older folk standards (both traditional ones and ones with identifiable authors like Woody Guthrie), they also like covering folk songs by '60s artists (they've done a number of well-received covers of Bob Dylan songs, and did a famous rendition of The Band's "The Weight" with Gillian Welch).
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