SongEra: Jim Crow

Grizzly Bear

Name: Grizzly Bear
Description: African American Texas prison work song, first documented in a February 1951 field recording at Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas.

c. 1951(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: prison work song

African American Texas prison work song, first documented in a February 1951 field recording at Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas.

Sources & citations

1.scalar.usc.eduwebsite
2.pancocojams.blogspot.comwebsite