I have an original album (1944) & note someone selling it on Amazon for $300, so it is worth quite a bit, not easy to find. I was lucky enough to catch an unadvertised performance of the piece with Earl Robinson, Burl ives and Leadbelly at UCLA the three of them doing the different parts. Robinson and Leadbelly on guitar and banjo. Don't have the actual date, possibly before it was recorded on Decca and the performance in NY.