The Lost Sheep
Title
The Lost Sheep
Digital Object
Performer
Shepherd, Susan
Shepherd, Betty Sue
Date Recorded
1937-09-27
AFS Number
1431A
AFC Collection
AFC 1937/001
AFC Catalog Record
Editor Note
Composed by Susan Shepherd (identified as Mrs. D.L. Shepherd on AFS card). Accompanied by six-year-old Betty Sue Shepherd, who is misidentified as "Sallie Belle Shepherd" on AFS card. Lomax refers to Susan Shepherd in his "Field Trips: Eastern Kentucky" report to the Librarian of Congress, saying that she "told us that all of her songs?ballads about floods, accidents and premature deaths that had sent the unconverted to Hell?were communicated to her in her dreams."
Genre
sacred song
Instrumentation
vocal
guitar
State
Kentucky
County
Harlan
Town
Cumberland
Collection
Citation
“The Lost Sheep,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed April 23, 2024, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/615.