Big Boy, Can't You Line 'Em

Audio file

Date recorded: September 3, 1937
Contributor(s): Performer: Mikel, Tommy; Recordist: Lomax, John A.

Subject(s):

Genre: work song, track-lining song

Instruments: voice

Setting: Piney Woods School

Language: English

Location: Piney Woods, Rankin County, Mississippi, United States

Tape number: AFS0881

Track Number: 4

Archive ID: 0881B4

Note: Identified on AFS card as "I Don't Know But B'lieve I Will." Followed by discussion of lining track.

Belongs to: Piney Woods 9/37

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