Kelly Harrell

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Henry Clay Beattie 00:00 Tools
O! Molly Dear Go Ask Your Mother 00:00 Tools
My Name Is John Jo Hannah 00:00 Tools
Charles Guiteau 00:00 Tools
Rovin' Gambler 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again 00:00 Tools
Butcher's Boy 00:00 Tools
Beneath the Weeping Willow Tree 00:00 Tools
The Wreck On The Southern Old 97 00:00 Tools
My Horses ain't Hungry 00:00 Tools
Bright Sherman Valley 00:00 Tools
I'm Going Back To North Carolina 00:00 Tools
Peg And Awl 00:00 Tools
Wish I Was a Single Girl Again 00:00 Tools
Wild Bill Jones 00:00 Tools
The Dying Hobo 00:00 Tools
The Cuckoo she's a Fine Bird 00:00 Tools
Charley He'S A Good Old Man 00:00 Tools
I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago 00:00 Tools
Blue Eyed Ella 00:00 Tools
New River Train 00:00 Tools
Oh, My Pretty Monkey 00:00 Tools
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane 00:00 Tools
I Was Born In Pennsylvania 00:00 Tools
Broken Engagement 00:00 Tools
I want a Nice Little Fellow 00:00 Tools
Be At Home Soon Tonight, My Dear Boy 00:00 Tools
I Love My Sweetheart the Best 00:00 Tools
For Seven Long Years I've Been Married 00:00 Tools
O! Molly Dear Go And Ask Your Mother 00:00 Tools
Rovin’ Gambler 00:00 Tools
In the Shadow of the Pine 00:00 Tools
I'm Nobody's Darling on Earth 00:00 Tools
Charley, he's a Good Old Man 00:00 Tools
I Have No Loving Mother Now 00:00 Tools
She Just Kept Kissing on 00:00 Tools
My Wife, she has Gone and Left Me 00:00 Tools
I Heard Somebody Call My Name 00:00 Tools
All My Sins are Taken Away 00:00 Tools
Row Us Over the Tide 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
The Henpecked Man 00:00 Tools
Cave Love has Gained the Day 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again (Take 6) 00:00 Tools
My Name Is John Johannah 00:00 Tools
Rovin' Gambler (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Bye and Bye You will Soon Forget Me 00:00 Tools
The Wreck of the Old 97 00:00 Tools
Rovin' Gambler (Take 6) 00:00 Tools
Butcher's Boy (Take 5) 00:00 Tools
New River Train (Take 6) 00:00 Tools
New River Train (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
The Butcher's Boy 00:00 Tools
I Was Born About 10.000 Years Ago 00:00 Tools
Kelly Harrell - Rovin' Gambler 00:00 Tools
John Johanna 00:00 Tools
O! Molly Dear Go Ask You Mother 00:00 Tools
Bye and Bye You Will Forget Me 00:00 Tools
Charley, He's A Good Old Man 00:00 Tools
O! Molly Dear Go Ask Your Mother [USA] 00:00 Tools
The Cuckoo She's A Fine Bird-Kelly Harell 00:00 Tools
My Name Is Johanna 00:00 Tools
Henry Clay Beetle 00:00 Tools
The Wreck On The Southern Old 97 (1925) 00:00 Tools
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Kelly Harrell (September 13, 1889 - July 9, 1942) was a country music singer in the 1920s. He recorded more than a dozen songs for Okeh and Victor Records and wrote songs which were recorded by other artists, including Jimmie Rodgers and Ernest Stoneman, in his own lifetime. Harrell was born in Draper's Valley, Wythe County, Virginia and from his early teens worked in various textile mills. In early 1925, when Harrell was already 35 years old, he went to New York and recorded four tracks for Victor Records, among them "New River Train" (made famous by Bill Monroe and "The Roving Gambler". He recorded for OKeh later that year, including a version of "The Wreck of the Old 97" and "I Was Born 10,000 Year Ago" (the latter often known as "The Bragging Song" and recorded by Elvis Presley, The New Christy Minstrels, Odetta and several others). He made more records for Victor in 1925, 1926, 1927 and 1929. "The Butcher's Boy" and "I Wish I Was Single Again" on Victor 19563 on 1/7/25. "The Dying Hobo" (1926) is a variant of the traditional English folksong George Collins. "My Name Is John Johannah" was recorded in 1927 at RCA Victor's studios in Camden, NJ, with Posey Rorer on fiddle, Alfred Steagal on guitar, and R.D. Hundley on banjo. Variations of this song ("Maggie Walker Blues", "State of Arkansas", "For Dave Glover") were performed and recorded by Bob Dylan. After 1929, his recording career came to a halt, owing to his inability to play an instrument—Harrell always required backing by other musicians, and the Great Depression had so damaged the recording business that Victor was unwilling to pay the cost of hiring backup musicians. His "My Name Is John Johannah" featured on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music (1952), which was extremely influential on the folk revival of the 1950s-60s. Harrell's complete recorded music was reissued by Bear Family on a triple-LP set in the 1970s, and he is also represented by an LP on the County label. More recently, Worried Blues was released 2006 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.