TAKE ME BACK TO THE SWEET SUNNY SOUTH

Created on 13/12/2018
Latest update on 03/11/2022

Artist: Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters
Author: traditional
Label: Gennett
Year: 1927

Vocal: Ben Jarrell from Galax, VA. Also released under the name Jackson Young. Reissued on Charlie Poole box set You Ain't Talking To Me (2005).

Covers:

1929:

Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers [as Sweet Sunny South]

1957:

Ernest Stoneman [idem; on autoharp]

1962:

New Lost City Ramblers [idem]

1969:

Joan Baez [idem; at Woodstock]

1995:

Rory Block [idem]

1996:

Jerry Garcia & David Grisman [idem]

1998:

Eric Taylor [idem]

2009:

Loudon Wainwright III [idem on his Charlie Poole tribute High Wide & Handsome]

Same tune as in Hick's Farewell (see there). Not to be confused with Bright Sunny South (see there).

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