SEA-LION WOMAN
Created on 19/04/2004Latest update on 02/07/2022
Artist: Christine & Katherine Shipp
Author: traditional
Label: Library Of Congress
Year: 1939
Two only daughters in a family of 14 children; one 14 years old, her sister 17. Recorded by Herbert Halpert in Byhalia, MS. Reissued on cd A Treasury Of Library Of Congress Field Recordings and on Rounder cd Afro-American Blues And Game Songs.
Covers:
- 1964:
Nina Simone [as See-Line Woman on album Broadway-Blues-Ballads]
- 1968:
Easybeats [hit Australia]
- 1997:
Linda Tillery [as See-Line Woman]
- 1998:
Greg Hale Jones [sample in She Began To Lie, opening sequence film The General's Daughter ('99)]
- 1998:
Charles & The White Trash European Blues Connection [alias Arno; idem]
- 2002:
Masters At Work [remix with Nina Simone samples]
- 2002:
- 2006:
- 2006:
- 2007:
Feist [as Sealion]
- 2011:
Heritage Blues Orchestra [as C-Line Woman]
