Note: Hobart Smith, who states his age as 44, says he learned the song 40 years earlier from an itinerant African-American guitarist playing at a drugstore [in Saltville's "Smoky Row" section].
About the session: Ballads, religious material, and songs sung by siblings Texas Gladden and Hobart Smith, with occasional accompaniment by brother Preston Smith.
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