Cover of ON THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL in 1934 - as Midnight Special; Lomax recording in Angola, LA
Cover of I'M ALABAMA BOUND in 1935 - as Alabama Bound; in '40 with the Golden Gate Quartet and in '46 with Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston
Cover of SWEET ALBERTA in 1935 - he was from Mooringsport, close to Shreveport and might have known the real Alberta; his oldest version remained unissued
Cover of BLACK BETTY in 1935 - same session as Pick A Bale Of Cotton (see there)
Cover of HALLELU in 1935 - for the L.o.C. as You Must Have That True Religion Halleloo
Cover of POOR BOY BLUES in 1935 - as When A Man's A Long Way From Home
Cover of ROCK ISLAND LINE in 1937 - first rudimentary version for the L.o.C.
Cover of MAID FREED FROM THE GALLOWS, THE in 1938 - as Mama Did You Bring Me Any Silver; version recorded by Alan Lomax in New York and released by Rounder on Lomax Series cd Deep River Of Song - Louisiana
Cover of MAID FREED FROM THE GALLOWS, THE in 1939 - as The Gallis Pole for Musicraft; the gallow used to draw its gloomy shadow over this ex convict, once facing long term incarceration; all three of his versions are sung from a male perspective
Cover of ROCK ISLAND LINE in 1944 - for Capitol with his patent spoken intro pretty good together, about an engineer coming down the depot, signalling with his whistle it's lifestock he's carrying; lifestock was free, iron was taxable; once past the checkpoint, seemed he signalled 'pig iron' instead of 'pigs'
Cover of CRUCIFIXION, THE in 1945 - as They Hung Him On A Cross in medley with Swing Low Sweet Chariot and in '48 as He Never Said A Mumblin' Word during his Last Sessions for Folkways
Cover of DANCE ALL NIGHT WITH A BOTTLE IN YOUR HAND in 1946 - as Fiddler A Dram (Smithsonian Folkways); a version with Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston was released in '62; the L.o.C. holds a version on him cut in '35 as Gwine Dig A Hole To Put The Devil In