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Thread #1016   Message #91221
Posted By: Dale Rose
30-Jun-99 - 11:10 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Sweet Evalina / Sweet Evelina
Subject: RE: Just getting started and help with 'Evalina'
On the old time news group, William A. Kristensen listed these recordings.

Sweet Evelina, dear Evelina - Was recorded by Doc Roberts & Asa Martin on 1/13/30 on Gennett Master No. 16089, but never pressed on any label.

Sweet Evelina; Peggy O'neil - Was recorded by Johnnie & Mack on 3/1/30 on Gennett Master No. 16345, but never pressed on any label.

Sweet Evalina - Was recorded by the "Arkansas Woodchopper" (Luther Ossenbrink) on 2/10/30 and produced on Champion 16053, Gennett 7264, Supertone 9643.

Sweet Evalina - Was recorded by The Blue Sky Boys on 8/2/37 and produced on Bluebird 7348 and Montgomery Ward 7323.

Sweet Evalina - Was recorded by (Phil) REEVES & (Ernest) MOODY - (date ??) and produced on Victor 21188.

Sweet Evalina - Was recorded by the SHELTON BROTHERS (date??) and produced on Decca 5261.

(My additions) The Blue Sky Boys version was released on CD, but my understanding is that is now out of print. The Lulu Belle and Scotty Wiseman version is available on Starday CD 351, as Sweet Evalina. Kenny Baker and Josh Graves do an instrumental version on Rebel CD 1108, originally on Puritan 5001. There have also been versions by Doc Watson with Flatt and Scruggs (Columbia LP 9443), and by Ed McCurdy (Tradition LPs 1003 and 1051). Lynn Chirps Smith has done it, too, but I don't have the info on that. Art Thieme gave me his address some time ago, but I never followed up on it.

A bit of musical history off on a tangent. Phil Reeves and Ernest Moody, listed above, were members of the noted string band, The Georgia Yellowhammers. Ernest Moody (Actually, CHARLES Ernest, or C E Moody) is also noted as the author of two well known gospel songs, Drifting Too Far From The Shore and Kneel At The Cross.