David Massengill
About David Massengill
David Massengill (born in 1951 in Bristol, Tennessee) is an American folk singer/songwriter, guitar and appalachian dulcimer player. His best-known songs include "On The Road to Fairfax County," recorded by The Roches and by Joan Baez, "The Great American Dream," and "My Name Joe," about an illegal immigrant restaurant worker. For some years after he began recording, Massengill maintained a day job as a restaurant dishwasher. He also contributed his
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Top Tracks
Contrary Mary
Fairfax County
Massengill's Theory of De-evolution
What's Wrong With the Man Upstairs?
My Name Joe
Mild Mannered Schizophrenic
Rider on an Orphan train
Rider On A Orphan Train
Crucifixion
Number One in America
Where has My True Love Gone
On the Road to Fairfax County
Bloods And Crips
My Hometown
Jesus, the Fugitive Prince
Coming Up for Air
Don Quixote's Lullaby
The Great American Dream
Tree of Rhyme
Hard Times Come Again No More
The Girl From Nebraska
Down Derry Down
Henry the Accountant
It's a Beautiful World
Fireball's Last Ride
Johnny Macaroon
To Climb A Tree
Where Has My True Love Gone?
My Home Must Be a Special Place
Shamas Rides
Somebody Else Not Me
Rainchild
Another Time And Place (Dave Van Ronk cover)
Killer Keller's Last Stand
Hard Times Come Again No More (Stephen Foster cover)
The Return
Crucifixion (Phil Ochs cover)
Wake Up
Mrs. Credle Was My First Love
Intro-Cowboy Kid
The Eunuch's Lament
A Notable Social Event/The Debutante's Ball
Green, Green Rocky Road
Nothing
A Careless Man
Candy Man Blues (trad; via Dave Van Ronk)
Girl From Nebraska
Perfect Love
My First Kiss
The Gambler-In-Chief
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