PICK A BALE OF COTTON

Created on 09/03/2006
Latest update on 03/02/2025

Artist: James 'Iron Head' Baker
Author: Huddie Ledbetter
Label: Library Of Congress
Year: 1933

Field recording in the Sugarland Central State Farm, TX, released on Document.

Covers:

1935:

Lead Belly

1940:

Lead Belly & The Golden Gate Quartet

1952:

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee [on Folkways LP Get On Board]

1955:

Gordon Heath & Lee Payant

1956:

John A. Lomax Jr.

1956:

Harry Belafonte [as Jump Down, Spin Around]

1956:

Vipers Skiffle Group

1962:

Lonnie Donegan

1963:

Johnny Cash

1963:

Fannie Lou Hamer

1963:

Spotnicks

1966:

Barry McGuire

1968:

Pete Seeger

1975:

ABBA [for charity and in '78 on B-side Summernight City]

1977:

Mike & Peggy Seeger

1989:

Joe Dassin

1999:

Mungo Jerry

2007:

Golden Glows

2022:

Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder [on their Sonny & Brownie tribute Get On Board]

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