WILD OX MOAN

Created on 07/09/2005
Latest update on 07/09/2005

Artist: Rick Amerson
Author: traditional
Label: Ethnic Folkways
Year: 1950

Harold Courlander recording, thankful to Miss Ruby Pickens-Tartt, released on 6-fold album Negro Folk Music Of Alabama.

Covers:

1959:

Vera Hall [stereo recording during Alan Lomax' 1959 field trip (see also: Trouble So Hard, Chevrolet and Hambone)]

1969:

Taj Mahal

1993:

Big Sugar

1996:

Spencer Bohren

1998:

Geoff Muldaur

2000:

Chris Whitley

In '47 Joe Williams and Sonny Boy Williamson both cut an urbanized Wild Cow Moan and in '36 father Lomax recorded a Wild Ox Moan with different lyrics on convict Rollie Lee Johnson in Richmond, VA.

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