Ballad of Otis B. Watson
1969 · Enterprise ENA-9005 · Memphis, Tennessee
- Artist
- Sid Selvidge
- Title
- Ballad of Otis B. Watson
- Release
- The Ballad of Otis B. Watson / Going Through Another Change
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Enterprise # ENA-9005
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Songwriter
- D. Nix
- Genre
- Singer Songwriter · Singer Songwriter
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Ballad of Otis B. Watson Folk rock, anti-war, protest Daddy killed in WW2, grew up in poverty But now he's gone, went off to war, died like a man How many left to carry on
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Born 21 July 1943, Greenville, Mississippi, USA. Died 2 May 2013, Memphis, Tennessee, USA