With regard to their version of Tom Dooley, the notes to the Grayson & Whitter Document CDs are written by Ray Parker and he states about G.B. Grayson,
"Although not written by him, his recording of "Tom Dooley" was the first. Grayson's uncle, Colonel James Grayson, a Union veteran, led the posse which captured Tom Dula for Laura Foster's murder. Caught at Doe Valley Tennessee, he was returned to North Carolina where the stabbing occurred and tried and hanged for it."
The liner notes start out with:
"Gillam Bannom Grayson was the youngest of 3 brothers and 2 sisters born to Benjamin Carrol and Martha Jane Grayson on November 11th 1887. They were living in Grayson, Ashe County, North Carolina and later moved to Laurel Bloomery, Johnson County, Tennessee where he spent all his adult life..."