The Lady of Carlisle

Title

Digital Object

Performer

May, Basil

Date Recorded

1937-10-28

AFS Number

1587B

AFC Collection

AFC 1937/001

AFC Catalog Record

http://lccn.loc.gov/2008700304

Genre

ballad

Instrumentation

vocal

guitar

State

Kentucky

County

Magoffin

Town

Salyersville

Is Referenced by

Cohen, John, Mike Seeger, and Hally Wood. Old-Time String Band Songbook. Oak Publications, 1964, 1976. (Songbook produced by members of the New Lost City Ramblers, includes text and musical transcriptions of pieces in the collection.)

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.

Lofgren, Lyle. “Lady of Carlisle.” Inside Bluegrass (Minnesota Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Association). February 2000. (Article about “The Lady of Carlisle” as sung by Basil May and Clay Walters.)

Anglo-American Ballads. Edited by Alan Lomax.AFS L1, 1942. Reissued 1956, 1978. LP.
Anglo-American Ballads, Volume 1. Rounder CD 1511, 1999. CD.

Review: Rhodes, Willard. The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 70, No. 276. Apr. - Jun., 1957, pp. 185-186.

Music of Kentucky: Early American Rural Classics 1927-37. Edited by Guthrie Meade and Richard Nevins. Yazoo 2013 and 2014, 1995. Set of 2 CD's.

Collection

Alan and Elizabeth Lomax Kentucky collection

Citation

“The Lady of Carlisle,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed April 19, 2025, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/1177.

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The Lady of Carlisle

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