JESUS ON THE MAIN LINE

Created on 01/10/2003
Latest update on 07/02/2024

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 Murells Inlet, South Carolina and one by The Plantation Echoes (as Jesus On The Main Line Too).

Covers:

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:

Rev. Dwight Gatemouth Moore

1972:

Alabama State Troupers

1972:

Tessie Hill

1973:

Brenda Patterson [with Ry Cooder on guitar]

1974:

Ry Cooder

1975:

Jerry Lee Lewis

1986:

Aretha Franklin

1991:

Bad Livers

1994:

Hans Theessink & Blue Groove

1995:

Norbert Detaeye

1996:

Gary Brooker

2003:

Barbara Dex

2004:

Aerosmith

2004:

Dirty Dozen Brass Band

2006:

Ollabelle [with Amy Helm, Levon's daughter]

2007:

Mavis Staples

2009:

Ruby Turner

2011:

Kenny Brown

2019:

Leo Bud Welch

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:

Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

info@originals.be

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