On July 5, 1933, he recorded five tracks at Central State Farm in Sugarland, TX, followed by eight more there (including the first recorded version of Black Betty) in December 1933. He recorded 14 more pieces (including three takes of Little John Henry) at Central State Farm in May 1934, and nine more tracks in October of 1934. He was in Dallas, TX, two years later on April 7, 1936, where he recorded two more songs. A month later finds Baker incarcerated at the state penitentiary in Rainford, FL, where on May 3 and May 5 he recorded two different versions of Go Down Old Hannah. Still later in the month, on May 15, he tracked two songs at the state penitentiary in Columbia, SC. By May 29, 1936, Baker is in Washington, D.C., where he recorded nearly two dozen songs, apparently by this time a free man, although that didn't last, because three years later he was back paying penance in good old Texas, recording three tracks at Ramsey State Farm in Otey, TX. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi