Artist: Fiddlin' John Carson
Author: traditional
Label: Okeh
Year: 1924
A Ralph Peer recording. Sold well in Atlanta, an eye opener for organizing the Bristol Sessions.
Covers:
Hill Billies [also for Ralph Peer and also from Carroll Co, Virginia; when Peer asked them if their string quartet had a name yet, the answer was: We're just a bunch of hillbillies from Virginia and North Carolina, call us anything you like; the name stuck and soon covered any kind of mountain string quartet music coming from the Blue Ridge Range]
Fiddlin' Powers & Family [from Russell Co, Virginia]
Vester Jones [from Carroll Co, VA]
Taj Mahal [on Giant Step]
Mark Lemhouse [rock version]
Southern Appalachian song documented as far back as 1886.
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Arnold Rypens
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