Date recorded:
August 9, 1933 to August 10, 1933
Contributor(s):
Performer: Scrap Iron; Recordist: Lomax, John A.
Subject(s):
Setting: Camp C, Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary)
Note: Scrap Iron (whom John Lomax misidentified as "Crap Eye") performs the song as it might have been sung with both guitar/banjo and piano accompaniment.
Technical Note: P/S correction to -1.6 / 90.9%
About the session: The first of the Lomax recordings made at Parchman Farm—songs and hollers recorded in several of the penitentiary's camps.
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