Parallel Anthology Track 73

Track 73: Dock Boggs - Country Blues  Brunswick 131-A; Recorded in New York, 9.3.1927

Record label does not assign authorship, nor does www.78discography.com.

The Roud Folksong Index classifies this song as a version of Roud 428. A Roud number search returns only one version which pre-dates Boggs' recording, from 1917.

According to the Where Dead Voices Gather blog, "'Country Blues' is a variant of the song 'Darling Cora.'"

According to the wikipedia page for "Darling Cory", the earliest record of this song comes from only 1918.

There is thus not enough evidence for the copyright status of this composition to be anything other than unknown.

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