The Vance Song
Title
The Vance Song
Digital Object
Performer
Higgins, Branch H.
Date Recorded
1937-10-28
AFS Number
1592B1
AFC Collection
AFC 1937/001
AFC Catalog Record
Editor Note
Lomax announces Higgins' age as 85.
Genre
lyric song
sacred song
Instrumentation
vocal
State
Kentucky
County
Magoffin
Town
Salyersville
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
“The Vance Song,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed May 23, 2025, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/1190.