Nine Pound Hammer
Dublin Core
Title
Nine Pound Hammer
Alan Lomax Recording Item Type Metadata
Digital Object
Alternate Titles
Roll On Buddy
Performer
Steele, Lillie
Steele, Pearl
Steele, Craig
Steele, Pete
Date Recorded
1938-03-29
AFS Number
1705B1
AFC Collection
AFC 1938/004
AFC Catalog Record
Editor Note
Several takes (second with just guitar and Lillie's singing) are combined in a single AFS #.
Genre
lyric song
Instrumentation
vocal
guitar
banjo
State
Ohio
County
Butler
Town
Hamilton
Collection
Citation
“Nine Pound Hammer,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed June 16, 2026, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/153.