Artist: John Fahey
Author: William Dunkerley/Harry Burleigh
Label: self-released/Takoma
Year: 1959
Instrumental from his album The Legend Of Blind Joe Death. Less than 100 copies pressed, re-released in '64 on Takoma. Song based upon an Irish tune modified by black slaves. Fahey credits African American spiritual The Angels Changed My Name (1867).
Covers:
Mavis Staples [with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and Pat Sansone]
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