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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Rev. Gary Davis
Author: Gary Davis
Label: Folklyric/Smithsonian Folkways
Year: 1957
He didn't perform it live. The lyrics he took credit for were against his religious principles. An instrumental version was all you could get. He learned it from Will Bonds while with the Greenville String Band in North Carolina. Same melody as MS John Hurt's version (see there).
Covers:
Bob Dylan [Minnesota Hotel tape saved up for the Great White Wonder bootleg]
Rising Sons [with Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal]
Jerron 'Blind Boy' Paxton [on American Epic]
Not to be confused with Mississippi John Hurt's (see there).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)