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"Silicon Valley" - Marsh Family arrangement of traditional American folk song "Down in the Valley"
'Down in the Valley' – sometimes also known as 'Birmingham Jail' – is a traditional American folk song that was circulating in earnest in the 1920s. Versions have been recorded by a huge set of music icons, with our favourites including those of Pete Seeger, Tex Ritter, the Blue Ridge Mountain Boys, Solomon Burke, and a Glen Campbell version which encouraged us to include modulations up a perfect fourth cos they're very uplifting.
The song comes from a deep heritage mixing English, Irish, Scot