Vera Hall (born in Payneville, Alabama in 1902, died in 1964) was an American folk singer. She grew up near Livingston, Alabama. Hall was married to a coal miner named Nash Riddle and she gave birth to her first child, Minnie Ada, in 1917. Discovery by ethnomusicologists In Livingston in 1937, Hall met John Avery Lomax, an ethnomusicologist who recorded American folk music.[LINK: http://www.verahallproject.com/spirit/middleyears.html] [1] Lomax recorded Hall singing numerous songs that were put into the United States Library of Congress for preservation. Lomax's son, Alan, also championed Vera Hall -- bringing her to New York for a performance at Columbia University in 1948 and assembling Rainbow Sign, a book based on Hall's life and stories. Impact She is most famous to contemporary audiences for being sampled by Moby on his hit single, "Natural Blues". The sample was ta

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