Wild and Reckless Hobo

Title

Wild and Reckless Hobo

Digital Object

Performer

Hoskins, Theophilus G.

Date Recorded

1937-10-03

AFS Number

1461A1

AFC Collection

AFC 1937/001

AFC Catalog Record

Editor Note

"Learned from a blind man in Blackey twenty years ago," he says following the performance. (Perhaps from Richard Burnett, who recorded it as "Rambling, Reckless Hobo.")

Genre

ballad

Instrumentation

vocal
banjo

State

Kentucky

County

Leslie

Town

Hyden

Tags

Citation

“Wild and Reckless Hobo,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed April 25, 2024, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/719.