JESUS ON THE MAIN LINE
Created on 01/10/2003Latest update on 02/09/2024
Artist: Rev. W.M. Anderson
Author: traditional
Label: Nashboro
Year: 1951
The Folk Archive within the Library of Congress holds two recordings from 1937: one by Mrs. Lillie Knox & Martha Wright, collected by John A. Lomax on Murrells Inlet, South Carolina and one by The Plantation Echoes (as Jesus On The Main Line Too).
Covers:
- 1956:
Caravans feat. Albertina Walker [as Tell Him What You Want]
- 1959:
Fred McDowell [as Jesus Is On The Mainline]
- 1959:
Joseph Spence [Sam Charters recording for Folkways]
- 1959:
James Shorty, Viola James & congregation [Lomax recording in Tyro, MS (Independence Church), released on Rounder's Southern Heritage series]
- 1959:
- 1963:
Spirituals feat. Wilson Pickett [as Call Him Up]
- 1965:
Staple Singers [as Tell Him What You Want]
- 1967:
Mighty Clouds Of Joy [as Call Him Up]
- 1967:
Swan Silvertones [idem]
- 1972:
- 1972:
- 1973:
Brenda Patterson [with Ry Cooder on guitar]
- 1974:
- 1975:
- 1986:
- 1991:
- 1994:
- 1995:
- 1996:
- 2003:
- 2004:
- 2004:
- 2006:
Ollabelle [with Amy Helm, Levon's daughter]
- 2007:
- 2009:
- 2011:
- 2019:
