There's A Little Black Train A Coming (fragment)

Title

There's A Little Black Train A Coming (fragment)

Digital Object

Performer

Trusty, E.L.

Date Recorded

1937-09-11

AFS Number

1394A3

AFC Collection

AFC 1937/001

AFC Catalog Record

Editor Note

The Lomaxes identified him as "Brother Elihu Trusty." The SSDI spells his first name "Elihue."

Genre

sacred song

Instrumentation

vocal

State

Kentucky

County

Johnson

Town

Paintsville

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.)  

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.

Citation

“There's A Little Black Train A Coming (fragment),” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed April 19, 2024, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/484.