Hiski Salomaa

Hiski Salomaa (born Hiskias Möttö; May 17, 1891 – July 7, 1957) was a Finnish-American singer and songwriter. Referred to as the Finnish Woody Guthrie, Salomaa's songs portrayed the immigrant experience of working-class Finns. Between 1927 and 1931 Salomaa recorded eighteen sides for Columbia Records. Since the 1970s, Hiski Salomaa's recordings have been reissued in both analog and digital formats. In 1992 his song "Värssyjä sieltä ja täältä" (Verses from Here and There) was published in Mel Bay’s Immigrant Songbook, an American songbook with lyrics in both Finnish and English. Siirtolaisten Woody Guthrie. palasokeri.com. Retrieved: March 13, 2013. A Passion For Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music In America by Victor R. Greene, (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992) pp. 109-110. Spottswood, Richard K. (1990). Ethnic Music on Records: A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893-1942. Vol. 5: Middle East, Far East, Scandinavian, English Language, American Indian, International. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-01723-0. Värssyjä sieltä ja täältä (Helsinki: Love Records, 1971). Hiski Salomaa: Kootut teokset 1927–1931 (Helsinki: Johanna, 1991). Stranded in the USA (Munich: Trikont, 2004). Mel Bay’s Immigrant Songbook by Jerry Silverman, (Pacific, MO: Mel Bay Publications, 1992). Text of Lännen Lokari CD with Lännen Lokari v t e v t e