SongEra: Jim Crow

My Mule Grey

Name: My Mule Grey
Description: Traditional African-American plowing song (subtitled "A Plowing Song"), documented at a c.1959 Harry Oster field recording made outside the penitentiary…

c. 1959(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: work song

Traditional African-American plowing song (subtitled "A Plowing Song"), documented at a c.1959 Harry Oster field recording made outside the penitentiary and first released in 1997.

Sources & citations

1.folkways-media.si.eduwebsite
2.arhoolie.orgwebsite