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General Information[]

Performer: Kelly Harrell and The Virginia Stringband
Instrumentation: Fiddle-Posey Rorer, Banjo-Raymond D. Hundley, Guitar-Alfred Steagall
Date of recording: 1927
Record label: Victor
Serial #: 21520A (38235)

Summary[]

(As summarized by Harry Smith, The Anthology Of American Folk Music) "DITCH DIGGER SHOCKED BY EMPLOYMENT AGENTS' GROTESQUE DECEPTIONS." (3)

Information On This Song[]

This Ballad is a rendition of The State Of Arkansas.

Albums Featuring This Song[]

  • The Anthology Of American Folk Music
  • Hard Times Come Again No More (album
  • Stories The Crow Told Me
  • Hard Times In The Country
  • Rural Stringbands Of Virginia
  • Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 (1926-1929)
  • Worried Blues (album)

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