Mipso: “My Burden with Me”
Clip: 3/20/2025 | 3m 37sVideo has Closed Captions
Mipso performs their song “My Burden with Me.”
Mipso’s song “My Burden with Me,” from their 2017 album “Coming Down the Mountain,” exemplifies their deep understanding of folk and bluegrass traditions. Sung and arranged by Libby Rodenbough, the song continues the enduring legacy of bluegrass and folk by inviting future musicians to reinterpret it.
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Shaped by Sound is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
Made possible through support from Come Hear NC, a program of the N.C. Music Office within the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Mipso: “My Burden with Me”
Clip: 3/20/2025 | 3m 37sVideo has Closed Captions
Mipso’s song “My Burden with Me,” from their 2017 album “Coming Down the Mountain,” exemplifies their deep understanding of folk and bluegrass traditions. Sung and arranged by Libby Rodenbough, the song continues the enduring legacy of bluegrass and folk by inviting future musicians to reinterpret it.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[gentle music] ♪ I was on that train to the border town ♪ ♪ I was on that train, I was freedom-bound ♪ ♪ I was on that train when the trestle fell ♪ ♪ No arms to hold me as I said my farewell ♪ ♪ Do you see that dove, oh flies to me ♪ ♪ Can you hear my love as he cries to sleep ♪ [gentle music] ♪ Where the Mackinaw River meets the Great Illinois ♪ ♪ There I gave my love to a lover-born boy ♪ ♪ I was lost in light of a flame burning wild ♪ ♪ When I fell, the stirring of a star-crossed child ♪ ♪ Do you see that dove, oh flies to me ♪ ♪ Can you hear my love as he cries to sleep ♪ [gentle music] ♪ Well the burden grew and we planned our escape ♪ ♪ And he said that I will meet you up that north country way ♪ ♪ Well I was past Eureka when the engine broke free ♪ ♪ I'm gone to God in my burden with me ♪ ♪ Do you see that dove, oh flies to me ♪ ♪ Can you hear my love as he cries to sleep ♪ ♪ Do you see that dove, oh flies to me ♪ ♪ Can you hear my love as he cries to sleep ♪
Mipso: “A Couple Acres Greener”
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Clip: 3/20/2025 | 3m 15s | Mipso performs around one microphone for “A Couple Acres Greener.” (3m 15s)
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Preview: 3/20/2025 | 30s | A little honky-tonk, a little bluegrass and a lot of toe-tapping during this performance from Mipso. (30s)
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Shaped by Sound is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
Made possible through support from Come Hear NC, a program of the N.C. Music Office within the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.