Traditional Appalachian song popular with bluegrass performers.
Versions of this song date from the early 1900s. The first reference to the tune as "Cripple Creek" appeared in 1915 in "The Journal of American Folklore." Two fragments of "Cripple Creek" were collected by E. C. Perrow, and published in JOAFL, 1915, vol. 28, "Songs and Rhymes of the South," Part VIII, no. 42. No musical score.
First Recorded & Released by The Hill Billies (1925)
Released by Gid Tanner and His Skillet-Lickers with Riley Puckett and Clayton McMichen (1929)
Released by Jean Ritchie & Doc Watson (1963)
Released by Flatt & Scruggs (1964)
SONG INFO
Traditional Appalachian song popular with bluegrass performers.
Versions of this song date from the early 1900s. The first reference to the tune as "Cripple Creek" appeared in 1915 in "The Journal of American Folklore." Two fragments of "Cripple Creek" were collected by E. C. Perrow, and published in JOAFL, 1915, vol. 28, "Songs and Rhymes of the South," Part VIII, no. 42. No musical score.
First Recorded & Released by The Hill Billies (1925)
Released by Gid Tanner and His Skillet-Lickers with Riley Puckett and Clayton McMichen (1929)
