John Reilly

Title

John Reilly

Digital Object

Performer

Garrison, Lucy Nicholson

Date Recorded

1937-10-12

AFS Number

1504B1

AFC Collection

AFC 1937/001

AFC Catalog Record

Editor Note

The AFS card gives the location as Laurel County, but Lomax announces on 1503B1 that Nicholson's home in Providence is in Clay Co. on the edge of Laurel.

Genre

ballad

Instrumentation

vocal

State

Kentucky

County

Laurel

Town

Providence

Is Referenced by

Originally:
Lomax, John A., Alan Lomax, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Folk Songs and Ballads. The Macmillan Company, 1941.
(Includes transcriptions.)  

Currently as:
Lomax, John A., Alan Lomax, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Folk Songs and Ballads. Dover, 2000.

Tags

Citation

“John Reilly,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed April 18, 2024, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/854.