John Reilly
Title
John Reilly
Digital Object
Performer
Garrison, Lucy Nicholson
Date Recorded
1937-10-12
AFS Number
1504B1
AFC Collection
AFC 1937/001
AFC Catalog Record
Editor Note
The AFS card gives the location as Laurel County, but Lomax announces on 1503B1 that Nicholson's home in Providence is in Clay Co. on the edge of Laurel.
Genre
ballad
Instrumentation
vocal
State
Kentucky
County
Laurel
Town
Providence
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.)
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.
Collection
Citation
“John Reilly,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed March 17, 2025, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/854.