God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign
Dublin Core
Title
God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign
Alan Lomax Recording Item Type Metadata
Digital Object
Performer
Gunning, Sarah Ogan
Garland, Jim
Ledbetter, Huddie "Lead Belly"
Date Recorded
1938-01
AFS Number
2023A
AFC Collection
AFC 1938/009
AFC Catalog Record
Genre
hymn
sacred song
Instrumentation
vocal
guitar
State
Kentucky
County
Bell
Town
Pineville
Is Referenced by
Romalis, Shelly. Pistol Packing Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong. University of Illinois Press. 1999. (Includes an anecdote on p. 131 that Leadbelly drove Aunt Molly Jackson and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle during a trip to Kentucky. Three recordings were made by Mary Elizabeth Barnicle of Leadbelly in Pineville, Kentucky in 1938.)
Reviews:
Adams, Carolyn Hazlett. “Aunt Molly Jackson: The Benefits and the Costs of Cussedness.” Appalachian Journal, Vol. 26, No. 3. Spring 1999, pp. 264-273.
Cohen, Norm. Western Folklore. Vol. 58, No. 1, Winter, 1999, pp. 90-93.
Portelli, Alessandro. The Journal of American History, Vol. 87, No. 2. Sep., 2000, pp. 716-717.
Yates, Michael. Folk Music Journal, Vol. 7, No. 5. 1999, pp. 661-664.
Collection
Citation
“God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed March 9, 2026, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/393.