LOCKS AND BOLTS
Created on 01/02/2006Latest update on 20/02/2024
Artist: Charles Spencer
Author: traditional
Label: L.o.C.
Year: 1937
From Crandon, Wisconsin. Sidney Robertson recording on Folksongs Of Another America - Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest 1937-1946. Ballad licensed to be printed in 1631 as A Constant Wife. Cecil Sharp heard it in the Appalachians in 1916-18.
Covers:
- 1955:
George 'Pop' Maynard [pub singer from Sussex (1872-1962), nicknamed 'Pop' for his marbling skills; Peter Kennedy recording in Pop's cottage, released on cd Rolling In The Dew]
- 1957:
- 1959:
Almeda Riddle [as Rainbow 'Mid Life's Willows; Alan Lomax recording ending badly, failing to free the locked up girl; visions of incest linger in Mrs Riddle's heartbreaking a cappella interpretation]
- 1960:
Harrison Burnett [Max Hunter recording in Fayetteville, Arkansas]
- 1963:
- 1976:
- 2005:
Martyn Wyndham-Read with No Man's Band [on cd Song Links - A Celebration Of English Traditional Songs And Their American Variants]
- 2005:
Sara Grey [idem]
- 2009:
- 2015:
