“Kenny Wagner's Surrender”
Description
Kenny Wagner has killed three men, including a Mississippi sheriff. Captured in Tennessee, he escapes but is retaken and sentenced to life
Notes
For the minimal background Hudson supplies for this song, see the notes to "Kenny Wagner" [Laws E7]. This is evidently a semi-sequel to "Kenny Wagner"; it refers to that song and adds more details but is told in the first person. - RBW
Cross references
- cf. "Kenny Wagner" [Laws E7] (plot)
Recordings
- Vernon Dalhart, "Kennie Wagner's Surrender" (Columbia 15098-D [as Al Craver] [as "Kinnie Wagner's Surrender"], 1926) (Edison 52020, 1927)
- Ernest V. Stoneman, "Kenny Wagner's Surrender" (matrix # GEX 495-A recorded 1927 and issued 1927-1928 as: Herwin 75535, Gennett 6044 [as by Ernest V. Stoneman and his Graysen County Boys], Champion 1522 [as by Uncle Jim Seany], Silvertone 5004/Silvertone 25004 [as by Uncle Ben Hawkins])
References
- Laws E8, "Kenny Wagner's Surrender"
- BrownII 245, "Kenny Wagner's Surrender" (1 text)
- Hudson 106, pp. 245-246, "Kenny Wagner's Surrender" (1 text)
- Burt, p. 216-217, "(Kenny Wagner's Surrender)" (1 text)
- DT 779, KENWAGSR
- Roud #979
- BI, LE08