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Lu Mitchell, 'godmother' of Dallas folk music who wrote more than 300 songs, dies at 95

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Lu Mitchell, whose career as a lyricist and singer spanned more than half a century and who was once described as the godmother of folk music in…
Lu Mitchell, whose career as a lyricist and singer spanned more than half a century and who was once described as «the godmother of folk music in Dallas,» died Monday. She was 95.
Ms. Mitchell, who wrote more than 300 songs, recorded 11 albums that mixed humor with pointed insights. To cite some of the more memorable examples, they ranged in subject matter from wayward evangelists to Martha Stewart to sexual harassment to airport security pat-downs. She was in many ways ahead of her time.
She and her husband came to Dallas in 1949. While taking night courses at Southern Methodist University, Gene Mitchell met Hermes Nye, a folk music scholar.
During one of the couple’s first dinners at Nye’s home, «he gets out a guitar and starts singing ‘Barbara Allen,’ » Ms. Mitchell once told The Dallas Morning News. «Hermes said, ‘Lu, you need to play the guitar.’ So, he took me to Whittle Music Co., and I bought a guitar. He said, ‘I’ll teach you two songs, and from there, you’re on your own.’ «
Almost overnight, she became «like somebody possessed! I had found something great!»
Ms. Mitchell helped establish the Dallas Folk Music Society in 1959. Even then, it didn’t lack in cultural diversity.

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