Kelly Harrell

Overview
Kelly Harrell was a Singer. He played with The Virginia String Band, The Virginia Ramblers, and Henry Whitter.

Biography
Crockett Kelly Harrell was born on 1889 in Fieldale, VA. He was an exceptional singer, but he refused play any instruments, so he always had to hire other people to play with him. Around the end of the 1920s Victor tried to convince him to learn an instrument because it was becoming too expensive to hire extra musicians, he refused and never recorded again. He died in 1942 at the age of 52 from an asthma attack while working at a textile mill.

Albums Featured

 * Hard Times Come Again No More (album
 * The Story That The Crow Told Me
 * Hard Times In The Country
 * Rural Stringbands Of Virginia
 * Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 (1926-1929)
 * Worried Blues (album)
 * The Anthology Of American Folk Music
 * Old-Time Mountain Ballads
 * Virginia Traditions: Native Virginia Ballads And Songs
 * You Make Me Feel
 * Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 (1925-1926)
 * People Take Warning!
 * Virginia Traditions: Ballads From British Traditions
 * Kelly Harrell And The Virginia String Band
 * ''The Complete Kelly Harrell
 * Collection Of Mountain Songs
 * Mountain Sacred Songs
 * Old Time Ballads From The Southern Mountains
 * Collection Of Mountain Ballads
 * Country & Western (album)

Original Discography

 * New River Train
 * Rovin` Gambler
 * I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again
 * Butcher`s Boy
 * I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago
 * Wild Bill Jones
 * Peg And Awl
 * I Was Born In Pennsylvania
 * I`m Going Back To North Carolina
 * Be At Home Soon Tonight, My Dear Boy
 * The Wreck On The Southern Old 97
 * Blue Eyed Ella
 * O! Molly Dear Go Ask Your Mother
 * Broken Engagement
 * The Dying Hobo
 * Beneath The Weeping Willow Tree
 * My Horses Ain`t Hungry
 * Bright Sherman Valley
 * The Cuckoo, She`s A Fine Bird
 * Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
 * Bye And Bye You Will Forget Me
 * Oh, My Pretty Monkey
 * I Love My Sweetheart The Best
 * Henry Clay Beattie
 * I Want A Nice Little Fellow
 * My Name Is John Johanna
 * In The Shadow Of The Pine
 * Charles Giteau
 * I`m Nobody`s Darling On Earth
 * My Wife, She Has Gone And Left Me
 * Row Us Over The Tide
 * I Have No Loving Mother Now
 * For Seven Long Years I`ve Been Married
 * Charley, He`s A Good Old Man
 * The Henpecked Man
 * She Just Kept Kissing On
 * All My Sins Are Taken Away
 * Cave Love Has Gained The Day
 * I Heard Somebody Call My Name

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