Vera Hall has been played on NTS in shows including The Opera Show, featured first on 8 December 2013. Songs played include The Wild Ox Moan, Black Woman and What Month Was Jesus Born In.

Adell Hall Ward, known as Vera Hall, (born in Payneville, Alabama in 1902, died in 1964) was an American folk singer. She grew up near Livingston, Alabama.

In Livingston in 1937, Hall met John Avery Lomax, an ethnomusicologist who recorded American folk music. 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…