The Originals © by Arnold Rypens

Artist: Buell Kazee
Author: traditional
Label: Brunswick
Year: 1927

First published in Cecil Sharp's songbook English Folksongs From The Southern Appalachians (1917).

Covers:

1929:: Clarence Ashley [as Dark Holler Blues]
1934:: Ashley & Foster [B-side of Rising Sun Blues (see: House Of The Rising Sun)]
1934:: Carter Family [as East Virginia Blues and East Virginia Blues No. 2]
1950:: Pete Seeger
1952:: Jean Ritchie [as Old Virginny]
1956:: Stanley Brothers
1957:: Rambling Boys [Jack Elliott & Derroll Adams, crediting A.P. Carter]
1957:: Tarriers
1958:: New Lost City Ramblers
1960:: Joan Baez
1961:: George Hamilton IV
1963:: Glen Campbell
1963:: Jean Ritchie & Doc Watson
1964:: Danny & The Islanders [Finnish hit, later in film The Double (2014)]
1967:: Monkees [as I Was Born In East Virginia]
1968:: Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
1971:: Earl Scruggs & Bob Dylan [released on Bootleg Series Vol 15]
1975:: June Carter
1996:: Long John Baldry
1998:: Roger McGuinn
1999:: Damien Jurado
2000:: Dave Alvin [as East Virginia Blues]
2006:: Whitetop Mountain Band

Songs as Dark Hollow, Silver Dagger, I Don't Want Your Millions Mister and I Don't Want Your Greenback Dollar tap from the same musical source.

EAST VIRGINIA