Anthology of American Folk Music
Volume 3: Songs, Track 81

K.C. MOAN
The Memphis Jug Band

Recorded Memphis, TN: Ovtober 4, 1929
Tee Wee Blackman, lead vocal and guitar; Will Shade, vocal and harmonica; Charlie Burse, guitar, Ben Ramey, vocal and kazoo; Jab Jones, jug
Originally released on Victor 39553

For biography and additional information on this group see Track 66. This may have been a railroad work song (Don Kent, notes to Yazoo 2016). It was a standard among blues revival performers during the 1960s (see Asch, Dunson and Raim, pg. 102).

Other recordings include:
Folksong revival: as K.C. Moan: John B. Sebastian (MMS 65137c); Mark Spoelstra (FW 3572c).