Payday At Coal Creek
Dublin Core
Title
Payday At Coal Creek
Alan Lomax Recording Item Type Metadata
Digital Object
Performer
Steele, Pete
Date Recorded
1938-03-29
AFS Number
1702B
AFC Collection
AFC 1938/004
AFC Catalog Record
Editor Note
Discussion of Coal Creek explosion following.
Genre
lyric song
banjo tune
Instrumentation
vocal
banjo
State
Ohio
County
Butler
Town
Hamilton
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.
Anglo-American Shanties, Lyric Songs, Dance Tunes and Spirituals. Edited by Alan Lomax. AFS L2, 1942. LP.
Kentucky Mountain Music: Classic Recordings of the 1920s and 1930s. Edited by Richard Nevins and Charles Wolfe. [S.1.]: Yazoo, 2200, 2003. Set of 7 CD's. (Includes recordings from the collection.)
Reviews:
Blech, Kerry. Old-Time Herald 9, No. 2 (Winter 2003-2004).
Pareles, Jon. New York Times. November 30, 2003.
Pekar, Harvey. Austin Chronicle. April 4, 2003.
Reviews:
Blech, Kerry. Old-Time Herald 9, No. 2 (Winter 2003-2004).
Pareles, Jon. New York Times. November 30, 2003.
Pekar, Harvey. Austin Chronicle. April 4, 2003.
Collection
Citation
“Payday At Coal Creek,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed September 10, 2026, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/145.