The Originals © by Arnold Rypens - SHADY GROVE MY DARLING

Artist: Prairie Ramblers
Author: traditional
Label: Bluebird
Year: 1933

Ex Kentucky Ramblers. Stringband music, pre bluegrass. Reissued on cd Bluegrass Bonanza - Stringband Roots 1927-1938.

Covers:

1953:: Tom Paley [as Shady Grove]
1957:: Peggy Seeger
1959:: Mountain Ramblers
1959:: Kingston Trio
1960:: Obray Ramsey
1961:: Clarence Ashley & Doc Watson
1962:: Bill Monroe
1962:: Paul Clayton
1963:: Hedy West
1963:: Lorne Greene
1963:: Pernell Roberts
1964:: Rooftop Singers
1964:: Kentucky Colonels
1968:: Everly Brothers
1969:: Quicksilver Messenger Service
1976:: Hedy West
1988:: Lee Sexton [instrumental]
1992:: J.J. Cale
1993:: Jerry Garcia, David Grisman & Tony Rice
1997:: New Lost City Ramblers [like Lee Sexton]
1999:: Schrapnel Binde
2001:: Blue Mountain
2001:: Ricky Skaggs
2003:: Chieftains [with Tim O'Brien]
2008:: Mudcrutch [with Tom Petty and Mike Campbell]
2008:: Ralph Stanley
2012:: Taj Mahal
2016:: Mary McPartlan

According to Alan Lomax related with Scottish tune The Keach In The Creel. Also with Fly Around You Pretty Little Miss or, like on Alan Lomax' Southern Journey Vol. 2: Fly Around My Blue Eyed Girl by Hobart Smith. Oldest known version as such: The Kentucky Thorobreds ('27) on Paramount (with Doc Roberts on fiddle) and again The Prairie Ramblers ('33). For a link with Matty Groves, see: Little Musgrave And Lady Barnard.

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