Cold Penitentiary Blues
Title
Cold Penitentiary Blues
Digital Object
Performer
Brewer, Ted
Date Recorded
1937-10-20
AFS Number
1550A
AFC Collection
AFC 1937/001
AFC Catalog Record
Editor Note
Lomax announces that this song was composed by Brewer "about 1930 about the circuit judge, Judge Roberts," but very likely it was learned from B.F. Shelton's 1927 Victor record of the same name.
Genre
lyric song
Instrumentation
vocal
State
Kentucky
County
Perry
Town
Hazard
Collection
Citation
“Cold Penitentiary Blues,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed April 23, 2024, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/1053.