FIFTY MILES OF ELBOW ROOM

Created on 10/03/2010
Latest update on 29/06/2022

Artist: Rev. Ford Washington McGee
Author: Herbert Buffum
Label: Victor
Year: 1930

Written by "the Stephen Foster among the religious songwriters". Buffum also wrote When I Take My Vacation In Heaven and Across The Great Divide (see there). This one was part of Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music.

Covers:

1941:

Carter Family

1966:

Hank Locklin

1992:

Iris Dement

2002:

James Alan Shelton [with Gillian Welch]

2003:

Natalie Merchant

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