The Last of Callahan

Title

Digital Object

Performer

Strong, Luther

Date Recorded

1937-10-18

AFS Number

1537B1

AFC Collection

AFC 1937/001

AFC Catalog Record

http://lccn.loc.gov/2008700304

Genre

fiddle tune

Instrumentation

fiddle

State

Kentucky

County

Perry

Town

Hazard

Is Referenced by

Wilgus, D.K. “The Hanged Fiddler Legend in Anglo-American Tradition.” Folklore on Two Continents: Essays in honor of Linda Degh. Edited by Nikolai Burlakoff and Carl Lindhal. Trickster Press, 1980. pp. 120-138.(Collection includes several versions of one of this story / tune motif.)

Anglo-American Shanties, Lyric Songs, Dance Tunes and Spirituals. Edited by Alan Lomax. AFS L2, 1942. LP.

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.

Titon, Jeff Todd. Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes. University Press of Kentucky, 2001. Book and CD. (Includes general history of fiddling in Kentucky as well as biographies and tune transcriptions of several fiddlers in this collection.)

Collection

Alan and Elizabeth Lomax Kentucky collection

Citation

“The Last of Callahan,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed May 23, 2025, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/998.

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The Last of Callahan

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