Susan Shepherd: The [1927] Kentucky Flood (1937)

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A ballad performed (and presumably composed) by Susan Shepherd concerning the May 29-30, 1927 flood in Letcher Co., Kentucky. Recorded by Alan and Elizabeth Lomax at Cumberland, Harlan Co., Kentucky, September 27, 1937. For more from the Lomaxes' Kentucky recordings and Alan's fieldwork collections in general, visit archive.culturalequity.org. [AFS 1433A & B1]

[@sapat664]

Love this mountain music. Thanks for sharing.

[@SantjagoRamirez]

Grazie, Alan.

[@jonathanoldbuck3246]

What a superb voice!

[@ballbarn]

Great recording, thanks for the upload!

[@pitoshighlights2443]

Folklore at its best...profound, simple, sad and joyful...all at the same time.

[@lanacampbell-moore6686]

& it's flooded in Kentucky now Thanks Mr Lomax❤️

[@jtab4994]

I wanted to say the past I a foreign country after noting that Susan Shepherd is "Mrs D.L. Shepherd " but the past keeps repeating itself.

[@deborahwhy3637]

°•Terrible Events, Both Then and Now.◇ •°•° It's Always Amazing How Resilient Humans Everywhere Are; •4Ever Eternally Remembering Through Songs, Verse and Folklore,°•°Myriad Numbers of Major Life Changing Occurrences.♡☆ Very Grateful Am I to The Lomax Father and Son, for Preserving So Much History! ☆♡Bravo!♡RIP!☆♡♡☆

[@thisgame2]

If you understand remote viewing and. The use of (. ). This stuff is a time machine. If you don't know them you won't get it

[@SuperSynoptic]

Look to God, not man.

[@shardanette1]

lol