HARD TIMES (COME AGAIN NO MORE)

Created on 19/01/2006
Latest update on 18/12/2023

Artist: Haydn Quartet
Author: Stephen Foster
Label: Victor
Year: 1905

Written during the 1854 recession (leading to the American Civil War). See also: The Old Folks At Home.

Covers:

1905:

Edison Male Quartet

1932:

Graham Brothers

1983:

Mary Black [as Hard Times]

1983:

De Danann [idem]

1989:

Syd Straw [with Ry Cooder]

1989:

Hugh Moffatt

1991:

Kate & Anna McGarrigle [and Family]

1992:

Bob Dylan [Dylan's Death Is Not The End is also related with this Stephen Foster melody]

1994:

Brandos

1995:

Mare Winningham [in film Georgia]

1998:

Nanci Griffith

2003:

Johnny Cash [posthumously]

2004:

Mavis Staples

2007:

Chris Baker-Davies [in her brother Sam Baker's Odessa]

2012:

Chieftains [with Paolo Nutini]

2013:

Spencer Bohren

2014:

Ian Siegal

2015:

Anonymous 4

2016:

Madeleine Peyroux

Also covered by Emmylou Harris, Jennifer Warnes, Ralph McTell and Bruce Springsteen (live). Ida Cox' Hard Time Blues ('39) is another song.

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