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Thread #11138   Message #1494731
Posted By: Stewie
27-May-05 - 09:25 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Old Gray Mare
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Gray Mare
The ballad index entry above for Earl Johnson (OK 45183) should have read 'Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers'. At this session Lee 'Red' Henderson had replaced Byrd Moore on guitar. The earlier Dixie Entertainers line-up was Johnson, Emmett Bankston (bjo) and Moore. The Clodhoppers line-up of Johnson, Bankston and Henderson also later recorded under the name 'Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers'.

Johnson's 'Old Grey Horse Kicking Out of the Wilderness' seems to be mainly the vehicle for some wildly exuberant dance music and manic fiddling. Apart from the 'Old grey horse kicking ...' chorus, it has a couple of floaters like:

My wife died on Thursday evening
Friday she was buried
Done my courtin' on Saturday evening
On Sunday I got married

--Stewie.