Artist: Billy Murray
Author: Albert Von Tilzer/Edward Laska
Label: Columbia
Year: 1919
Prohibition song. Top 5 US. Also for Victor and Paramount.
Covers:
Vernon Dalhart [for Edison; the first to record it]
Lead Belly [during his Last Sessions; erroneously named Willsboro Cotton Mill Blues]
Pete Seeger [as The Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues, crediting Lead Belly/traditional/Jim Garland (see: I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister); Jim was a songwriter and union man from east Kentucky, halfbrother of Aunt Molly Jackson (see: I Am A Union Woman) who became a Greenwich Village folk scene regular; B-side of The Death Of Harry Simms, a Jim Garland original]
Chris Hillman [as Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues]
Peter Yarrow [idem]
Doc Watson & Taj Mahal [als Winsborough Cotton Mill Blues]
The Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues lyrics set to the Alcoholic Blues melody were first collected in 1939 by William Wolff in the School for Southern Women Workers. Winnsboro is a place in South Carolina.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)