Anthology of American Folk Music
Volume 2, Track 30

WAKE UP JACOB
Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers

Recorded Dallas, TX: June 26, 1929
Prince Albert Hunt, fiddle; Harmon Clem, guitar; unknown, second guitar
Originially released on Okeh 45375

(alternate titles: Wild Horse; Wild Horse of Stoney Point)

Archie "Prince" Albert Hunt (d. 1931) was from the town of Terrell, Texas, just south of Dallas. His group, the Texas Ramblers, played a style of music that would later evolve into Western Swing. The group featured the interaction of guitar and fiddle. Hunt also played with his Terrell neighbors Oscar and Doc Harper. Hunt's love for the nightlife caught up with him when he was shot to death by a jealous husband outside a Dallas bar in March 1931. A television documentary was made on Hunt in the 1970s by Houston Public Television (see Bill Malone, Country Music U.S.A., pg. 159).

OTHER RECORDED VERSIONS include:
Folksong revival: as Wake Up Jacob: Horse Sense (Music for Little People 239c); Terrea Lea (ABC/Paramount 161a); as Wild Horse: Howard Bursen (FL 74a)).

Country/String Band: as Wild Horse: Saul P. Carpenter (Folk Promotions 11567a); J.P. Fraley (RND 0351c); Frank Hutchison (OK 45093b); The Kessinger Brothers (VOC 5248b); Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers (CTY 3508c, CTY 509a); Walter Williams (RND 0237c); as Wild Horse of Stoney Point: Jilson Setters (J.W. Day)(RND 1037a).

Bluegrass: as Wild Horse: Curly Ray Cline (REB 1545a); as Wild Horse of Stoney Point: Bill Monroe (Hay Holler 106a).