I'LL ROLL IN MY SWEET BABY'S ARMS

Created on 08/05/2007
Latest update on 14/03/2024

Artist: Buster Carter & Preston Young
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1931

With fiddler Posey Rorer from the North Carolina Ramblers. Preston Young was a Depression-era hillbilly in the style of Charlie Poole, who'd died shortly before this New York recording: muted instruments during the vocal breaks, instrumental ballyhoo soon as they kept their mouth shut. This bluegrass classic was often credited to Charlie Monroe or Flatt & Scruggs. Re-issued on Document cd Walter Smith & Friends Vol 3 and on Arhoolie cd String Bands Vol 2.

Covers:

1936:

Monroe Brothers [as Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms]

1950:

Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs

1961:

New Lost City Ramblers

1961:

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

1961:

Kilby Snow

1962:

Rose Maddox

1964:

George Jones

1964:

Tennessee Three

1967:

Doc & Merle Watson

1968:

Del McCoury

1969:

Dillard & Clark

1971:

Buck Owens

1972:

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

1973:

Leon Russell [alias Hank Wilson]

1973:

Roy Clark

1973:

Charlie McCoy

1974:

Happy Traum

1974:

Flying Burrito Brothers

1974:

Terry Melcher

1975:

Tony Trischka

1976:

Dr. Hook

1978:

Willie Nelson

1978:

Billy Crash Craddock

1980:

Boxcar Willie

1987:

Dave Dudley

1988:

Dave Travis

2000:

Sleepy LaBeef

2001:

Ricky Skaggs

2003:

Charlie Daniels [all as Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms]

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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