SongEra: Jim Crow

Whoa Buck

Name: Whoa Buck
Description: A traditional African-American plowing and mule-driving field song (also "Whoa Back Buck," "Tighten on the Backband"; Roud 10060), first documented in…

c. 1925(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: work song

A traditional African-American plowing and mule-driving field song (also "Whoa Back Buck," "Tighten on the Backband"; Roud 10060), first documented in print in 1925; not specifically a prison song, and one that crossed early into white hillbilly repertoire.

Sources & citations

1.folklorist.orgwebsite
2.discogs.comwebsite
3.allmusic.comwebsite