RED RIVER SHORE
Created on 23/10/2008Latest update on 12/04/2024
Artist: Patt Patterson & Lois Dexter
Author: traditional
Label: Conqueror
Year: 1930
Song from father Lomax's cowboy song collection and that's exactly how it sounds here. Sir Francis Child knew it as Earl Brand.
Covers:
- 1960:
Norman Luboff Choir [on lp Songs Of The Cowboy]
- 1964:
New Christy Minstrels [on lp Cowboys And Indians; crediting Lomax/Lomax]
- 1966:
Kingston Trio [crediting Samuel F. Omar]
- 1997:
Bob Dylan [outtake Time Out Of Mind, saved up for Tell Tale Signs - Bootleg Series Vol 8 and again on Fragments - Bootleg Series Vol 17; still, there's more going on here: his version was melodically inspired by The Girl On The Greenbriar Shore, also covered (live) on Bootleg Series Vol 8; Dylan knew this saga from both the Minstrels and the Lomax collection; Girl On The Greenbriar Shore he knew from both The Carter Family and Tom Paley (see there)]
- 2017:
There's a Girl On The Greenbriar Shore by The Carter Family ('41 - Columbia), Ralph Stanley and Tom Paley.
