Upthread, 16 May 03 - 11:57 AM, Uncle_DaveO wrote,

"I just looked at the versions in the DT, and neither is VERY close to the version I have, which comes from the singing of Lee Hayes, on a 12 inch LP from Commodore Records, from the side called Sod Buster Ballads, the other side being Deep See Chanteys and Whaling Ballads.

"The Sod Buster Ballads side featured Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Millard Lampell, and Lee Hayes. The Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Ballads side had Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Peter Hawes, and Millard Lampell. Notes for both sides were by Alan Lomax. I'm unable to find a copyright date on either the shuck or the LP, but it had to be in the early 50s."

I'm looking at the Seeger discography at the back of David Dunaway's biography of Seeger. It lists an album, The Soil and the Sea, recorded June 1941, released 1941, re-released 1964, originally issued on General Records and on Commodore BA 20, 21 as Sod Buster Ballads, Deep Sea Shanties. The personnel are given as The Almanac Singers: Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, and Peter Hawes; Seeger accompanies on banjo and harmonies throughout.

It includes State of Arkansas.