Harry J. Lincoln
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Harry J. Lincoln was an early-twentieth-century American composer and publisher who wrote the tune to “I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home” (also published as “The Homestead on the Farm”), setting Herbert S. Lambert’s lyric to the music that the Carter Family carried onto Victor in 1929 and that the country and bluegrass repertoire has held onto ever since.
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- Wrote the tune to “I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home” / “The Homestead on the Farm,” set to a lyric by Herbert S. Lambert.
- Operated as a music publisher in the early twentieth century, issuing parlor ballads, marches, and gospel hymns under his own imprint.
- The Carter Family’s 1929 Victor recording of the song became the version that entered the country and bluegrass canon.
