Those who are of the opinion that nothing interesting was ever recorded for the Edison company are in for a treat here. This was one of the later electric diamond discs, waxed on April 2 of 1928, and the performance also found
its way onto cylinder as well as the rarer-still needle-cut Edison disc. Hodgin played a fantastic banjo as well as the guitar heard here. He may be a "one-trick pony", in that every number he recorded tended to sound very much
the same as any other number of his, but the lyrics make for an interesting few minutes of listening. There is more than a casual bow to the blues stylings of black musicians such as Robert Johnson here. The record was nearly
unplayed, though it had been misused once with a bad needle, so after filtering those bits out (along with the typical Edison rumble) the performance is returned to the state of amazing. (The other side of this record, "The Judge
Done Me Wrong", can be heard on the "Thomas Edison's Attic" radio show, and a banjo performance of his called "Courting the Widow" is on another
"Thomas Edison's Attic" show.)
