SongEra: Jim Crow

Pickin' Cotton All Day Long

Name: Pickin' Cotton All Day Long
Description: Traditional African-American cotton-picking song documented at a c.1959 Harry Oster field recording made outside the penitentiary and first released in…

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

Artist: Traditional
Genre: work song

Traditional African-American cotton-picking 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