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:
Vera Hall [stereo recording during Alan Lomax' 1959 field trip (see also: Trouble So Hard, Chevrolet and Hambone)]
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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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)