SongEra: Jim Crow

Working on the Levee

Name: Working on the Levee
Description: Traditional African-American levee worksong / field holler (subtitled "Good Morning Captain"), documented at a c.1959 Harry Oster field recording made…

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

Artist: Traditional
Genre: work song

Traditional African-American levee worksong / field holler (subtitled "Good Morning Captain"), 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