Johnny McCardner
Title
Johnny McCardner
Digital Object
Performer
Hudson, Hazel
Date Recorded
1937-10-19
AFS Number
1543B1
AFC Collection
AFC 1937/001
AFC Catalog Record
Editor Note
"McCardner" is likely an adulteration of "Johnny the Carpenter." This fragment was printed in the Lomaxes' "Our Singing County" as "Johnny McCardner," so it's maintained here.
Genre
ballad
Instrumentation
vocal
State
Kentucky
County
Perry
Town
Hazard
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.)
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.
Collection
Citation
“Johnny McCardner,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed April 19, 2024, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/1026.