Ora Dell Graham has been played on NTS in shows including Death Is Not The End, featured first on 9 April 2016. Songs played include Shortenin' Bread and (Jes' A) Pullin' The Skiff.

Ora Dell Graham was a student at Drew Colored High School, Mississippi in 1940 when folklorist John Lomax recorded some songs that she sang.

Graham was shot to death at the age of 20 in the act of committing an attempted robbery.