ALBERTA, LET YO' HAIR HANG LOW

Created on 24/04/2021
Latest update on 19/10/2023

Artist: Bob Gibson
Author: traditional
Label: Riverside
Year: 1957

Riverboat song about floods on the Ohio river in 1937, collected by Mary Wheeler in Steamboatin' Days - Folk Songs Of The River Packet Era (Louisiana State University Press - 1944). On his Carnegie Concert album, Bob mentioned this publication while introducing the song.

Covers:

1961:

Burl Ives [as Lenora Let Your Hair Hang Down]

1962:

Chad Mitchell Trio

1963:

Pernell Roberts

1963:

Odetta [as Roberta]

1966:

Blues Project

1966:

Doc Watson

1970:

Bob Dylan [as Alberta #1, #2 and #3 on Self Portrait and Another Self Portrait]

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