IT MAKES A LONG TIME MAN FEEL BAD
Created on 20/11/2002Latest update on 05/04/2024
Artist: Kelly Pace, Charlie Porter, L.T. Edwards, Willie Hubbard, Luther Williams, Napoleon Cooper, Albert Pate & Willie Lee Jones
Author: traditional
Label: Rounder
Year: 1940
Alan Lomax recording of an active chaingang, so good all the names got mentioned. Those guys knew what kind of 'long time man' it's about. Reissued on the Library Of Congress cd Negro Work Songs And Calls.
Covers:
- 1947:
22 & Group [again a Lomax recording at Parchman; '22' was the only foreman left to motivate the others to sing like they always did; many of these youngsters weren't always in tune compared to the recordings the Lomax's made there in the thirties]
- 1962:
Harry Belafonte [on lp Midnight Special]
- 1962:
Bob Dylan [as Long Time, with Cynthia Gooding]
- 1963:
Big 3 [trio with Tim Rose, James Hendricks and Cass Elliot]
- 1968:
Tim Rose [as Long Time Man, crediting himself]
- 1986:
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds [idem, using the Tim Rose arrangement, on Your Funeral... My Trial]
- 2010:
Hans Chew [idem]
Bob Dylan also recorded it a few times in 1961-62; remained unreleased.
