SongEra: Jim Crow

Trouble So Hard

c. 1937(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist
Traditional
Genre
spiritual

African American unaccompanied spiritual lament ("Don't nobody know my troubles but God"), first documented in a 1937 Lomax/Tartt recording of Vera Hall in Alabama.

Sources & citations

  1. 1.secondhandsongs.comwebsite
  2. 2.en.wikipedia.orgwikipedia
  3. 3.culturalequity.orgwebsite
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