SongEra: Jim Crow

Adam in the Garden (Pinnin' Leaves)

Name: Adam in the Garden (Pinnin' Leaves)
Description: African-American ring-play / shout ("Adam in the Garden Pinnin' Leaves"); earliest documented on a 1934 Library of Congress field recording and in print…

c. 1934(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: ring shout

African-American ring-play / shout ("Adam in the Garden Pinnin' Leaves"); earliest documented on a 1934 Library of Congress field recording and in print in 1941, decades before the Georgia Sea Island Singers' version.

Sources & citations

1.archive.culturalequity.orgwebsite
2.loc.govwebsite
3.bluegrassmessengers.comwebsite
4.archive.orgwebsite