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Pearl Bryant

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Title

Pearl Bryant

Alan Lomax Recording Item Type Metadata

Digital Object

Performer

Sibert, Ella D.

Date Recorded

1937-10-07

AFS Number

1477A

AFC Collection

AFC 1937/001

AFC Catalog Record

http://lccn.loc.gov/2008700304

Genre

ballad

Instrumentation

vocal

State

Kentucky

County

Clay

Town

Horse Creek

Is Referenced by

Cohen, Anne B. Poor Pearl, Poor Girl! The Murdered-Girl Stereotype in Ballad and Newspaper. Published for the American Folklore Society by The University of Texas Press. 1973. (Study of the ballad of Pearl Bryan; there are several recordings of the song in the collection.)

Purnell, Janice. “'Pearl Bryan' and 'The Jealous Lover'.” Kentucky Folklore Record. Vol. 12, No. 1, 1966. pp. 1-3. (The collection includes several recordings of both songs in the collection.)

Collection

Alan and Elizabeth Lomax Kentucky collection

Tags

Citation

“Pearl Bryant,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed March 14, 2026, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/772.

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