Performance: Poor Ellen Smith by Robert Earl Keen

Originals

Poor Ellen Smith

First recording and first release by Henry Whitter (November 1924 / 1924)

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Ellen Smith	Henry Whitter	1924	First recording in November 1924 First release
Poor Ellen Smith	Dykes' Magic City Trio	1927
The Fate of Ellen Smith	Green Bailey	February 1929
Poor Ellen Smith	Texas Gladden, Hobart Smith	1948
Poor Ellen Smith	Molly O'Day and The Cumberland Mountain Folks	October 1949
Poor Ellen Smith	The Kossoy Sisters	1956
Poor Ellen Smith	Eric Darling - The Kossoy Sisters	1956
Ellen Smith	Pete Steele	1958
Poor Ellen Smith	Charlie Waller and John Duffey and The Country Gentlemen	September 1960
Poor Ellen Smith	Hobart Smith	1960
Poor Ellen Smith	Estil C. Ball	1960
Ellen Smith	Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs	August 1962
Poor Ellen Smith	Jeanie West	1962
Poor Ellen Smith	Vester Jones	1962
Poor Ellen Smith	Frank Proffitt	1962
Ellen Smith	Ted Lundy, Fred Hanna and The Southern Mountain Boys	1962
Poor Ellen Smith	The Blue Grass Gentlemen	1962
Poor Ellen Smith	Stringbean and His 5-String Banjo	January 1964
Poor Ellen Smith	Jimmy Martin and The Sunny Mountain Boys	June 1965
Poor Ellen Smith	Don Reno and Bill Harrell with The Tennessee Cut-Ups	May 1967
Poor Ellen Smith	Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys	1968
Poor Ellen Smith	Doc Hopkins	1971
Poor Ellen Smith	Bobby Smith & Boys from Shiloh	October 1973
Poor Ellen Smith	Glen Neaves and The Virginia Mountain Boys	1974
Poor Ellen Smith	Tommy Jarrell	1974
Poor Ellen Smith	Dave Essig	1975
Poor Ellen Smith	Pine River Boys with Maybelle	1975
Poor Ellen Smith	Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper	1976
Poor Ellen Smith	The New Lost City Ramblers	1978	Live
Poor Ellen Smith	The Hotfoot Quintet	1981
Poor Ellen Smith	Iron Mountain String Band	1981
Poor Ellen Smith	The Stanley Brothers	December 31, 1982	Live Released more than 10 years after its recording
Poor Ellen Smith	Gary Brewer & The Kentucky Ramblers	October 8, 1996
Poor Ellen Smith	Kristin Hersh	October 26, 1998
Poor Ellen Smith	Jim Mills	1998
Poor Ellen Smith	Tom, Brad & Alice	June 5, 2000
Poor Ellen Smith	Homer Cornett	2000	Released more than 10 years after its recording
Poor Ellen Smith	The Pine Valley Cosmonauts feat. Neko Case	2002
Poor Ellen Smith	Laura Cantrell	June 21, 2005
Poor Ellen Smith	The Tallboys	2005
Poor Ellen Smith	Crooked Still	April 24, 2008
Poor Ellen Smith	Hartford Rice Clements	April 2011	Released more than 10 years after its recording Acoustic
Poor Ellen Smith	Jerry Miller [US2]	June 14, 2013
Poor Ellen Smith	The Henry Brothers	2013	Unverified
Poor Ellen Smith	Billy Strings & Don Julin	October 2014
Poor Ellen Smith	Robert Earl Keen	February 10, 2015
Poor Little Ellen	Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones	2015
Poor Ellen Smith	Tim O'Brien	June 22, 2018
Poor Ellen Smith	Gillian Welch & David Rawlings	July 10, 2020

Info

1924

First recording in November 1924
First release

Poor Ellen Smith

Dykes' Magic City Trio

1927

The Fate of Ellen Smith