BLUE-EYED ELLA

Created on 09/03/2006
Latest update on 10/10/2021

Artist: Kelly Harrell
Author: traditional
Label: Okeh
Year: 1925

Other title: Fair Eyed Ellen. Popular folk tune, borrowed from Woody Guthrie to murder ballads.

Covers:

1926:

Vernon Dalhart [as The Jealous Lover Of Lone Green Valley, for Victor]

1927:

North Carolina Ramblers [as Pearl Bryant]

1929:

Bradley Kincaid [as Pearl Bryan; murder ballad]

1944:

Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston [as The Philadelphia Lawyer]

1949:

Maddox Brothers & Rose [idem]

1950:

Tennessee Ernie Ford [idem]

1959:

Alan Lomax & Peggy Seeger [as The Lone Green Valley]

1960:

Rambling Jack Elliott [idem]

1962:

Flatt & Scruggs [idem]

1962:

Cisco Houston [as The Philadelphia Lawyer]

1965:

Sir Douglas Quintet [idem]

1968:

Willie Nelson [idem]

1970:

Merle Haggard [and in 2003 as Reno Blues (Philadelphia Lawyer)]

1978:

Don McLean

1994:

Seldom Scene

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