VALSE LA PRISON
Created on 19/07/2011Latest update on 01/12/2018
Artist: Douglas Bellard & Kirby Riley
Author: traditional
Label: Vocalion
Year: 1929
Oldest black creole recording, even older than Amédé Ardoin's. Should have been Valse de la prison of course. Bellard was doing time for murdering a chicken thief he caught red-handed. Douglas on fiddle, Kirby on accordion.
Covers:
- 1929:
Dennis McGee & Ernest Fruge [as La Valse Du Penitencier, also for Vocalion]
- 1934:
Joseph Jones [as Blues de la prison; Lomax recording]
- 1938:
- 1966:
- 1973:
Canray Fontenot [as Les Barres de la prison]
- 1992:
- 2001:
Terrance Simien [idem]
- 2005:
Pine Leaf Boys [idem]
- 2011:
Buddy Miller [idem]
