Artist: Kelly Harrell
Author: traditional
Label: Okeh
Year: 1925
Other title: Fair Eyed Ellen. Popular folk tune, borrowed from Woody Guthrie to murder ballads.
Covers:
Vernon Dalhart [as The Jealous Lover Of Lone Green Valley, for Victor]
North Carolina Ramblers [as Pearl Bryant]
Bradley Kincaid [as Pearl Bryan; murder ballad]
Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston [as The Philadelphia Lawyer]
Maddox Brothers & Rose [idem]
Tennessee Ernie Ford [idem]
Alan Lomax & Peggy Seeger [as The Lone Green Valley]
Rambling Jack Elliott [idem]
Flatt & Scruggs [idem]
Cisco Houston [as The Philadelphia Lawyer]
Sir Douglas Quintet [idem]
Willie Nelson [idem]
Merle Haggard [and in 2003 as Reno Blues (Philadelphia Lawyer)]
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)