To Welcome A Traveler Home
Title
To Welcome A Traveler Home
Digital Object
Performer
Garland, Jim
Date Recorded
1937-11-13
AFS Number
1947A
AFC Collection
AFC 1938/008
AFC Catalog Record
Editor Note
An adaptation of "To Welcome the Travelers Home." Preceded by introduction by Garland in the third-person: "...he was run out of Kentucky with indictments over strike trouble." Explanation of the use of the term "redneck" follows.
Genre
topical song
Instrumentation
vocal
State
New York
County
New York City
Town
New York
Is Referenced by
Originally:
Lomax, Alan, Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger. Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-hit People. Oak Publications, 1967. (Includes transcriptions of songs collected from Jim Garland, Sarah Ogan Gunning, and Aunt Molly Jackson.)
Lomax, Alan, Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger. Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-hit People. Oak Publications, 1967. (Includes transcriptions of songs collected from Jim Garland, Sarah Ogan Gunning, and Aunt Molly Jackson.)
Currently:
Lomax, Alan, Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger. Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-hit People. University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
Citation
“To Welcome A Traveler Home,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed April 19, 2024, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/196.