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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Grayson & Whitter
Author: traditional
Label: Gennett
Year: 1927
About a murder case in North Carolina in 1807 triggering the collective imagination. Omie's murderer (and lover) Jonathan Lewis couldn't be convicted for failed evidence but confessed on his dying bed. A second ballad (as Naomi Wise) was recorded by Vernon Dalhart for Edison in 1925.
Covers:
Mike Seeger & Ralph Rinzler [as Poor Omie]
Dock Boggs [as Little Omie Wise]
Judy Henske [as The Ballad Of Little Romy]
Scott H. Biram [as Little Omie Wise]
Kate & Anna McGarrigle [with Elvis Costello]
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)