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About This Song
About "Irene (Outro) [Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 7]" by Lead Belly
This outro to 'Irene' is a fragment, a fading echo. Lead Belly's voice, warm and weary, repeats the name like a prayer. The recording's hiss becomes part of the song—a ghost in the machine. It's a gentle, unresolved farewell, leaving the listener suspended in the studio's afterglow.