SongEra: Jim Crow

Let Your Hammer Ring

Name: Let Your Hammer Ring
Description: Traditional African-American call-and-response hammer song (spike-driving, later timber and axe work), documented in its earliest recordings on 1934 Texas…

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

Artist: Traditional
Genre: work song

Traditional African-American call-and-response hammer song (spike-driving, later timber and axe work), documented in its earliest recordings on 1934 Texas prison farms.

Sources & citations

1.culturalequity.orgwebsite
2.culturalequity.orgwebsite
3.folkways.si.eduwebsite