He recorded the ballad "Tom Dooley", learned from his aunt Nancy Prather who had known both Dula (locally pronounced "Dooley") and Laura Foster, for Alan Lomax on one of his (Lomax's) song collecting trips.
He recorded the ballad "Tom Dooley", learned from his aunt Nancy Prather. Prather learned the song from her mother Edy Adeline (Pardue) Proffitt, who had known both Dula (locally pronounced "Dooley") and Laura Foster, for Alan Lomax on one of his (Lomax's) song collecting trips.