Rattlesnake Daddy
Title
Rattlesnake Daddy
Digital Object
Performer
Garland, Jack
Date Recorded
1937-09-10
AFS Number
1393B1
AFC Collection
AFC 1937/001
AFC Catalog Record
Editor Note
Probably learned from Bill Carlisle's record. In his announcement following the performance, Lomax calls this "an example of the modern mountain music - perhaps an imitiation of the Negro blues." Garland was nine years old.
Genre
lyric song
popular country song
Instrumentation
vocal
State
Kentucky
County
Bell
Town
Arjay
Collection
Citation
“Rattlesnake Daddy,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed April 20, 2024, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/480.