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Artist: Jimmie Rodgers
Author: Jimmie Rodgers/George Vaughn
Label: Victor
Year: 1930
Also known as Blue Yodel #8. Jimmie sang it in the first person, even if mule skinning was a job for blacks exclusively.
Covers:
Gene Autry [as Blue Yodel #8]
Bill Monroe [on Bluebird; his version was as big a step forward as Elvis' arrangement of Bill's Blue Moon Of Kentucky (see there); lyrically it was a (cleaned-up) step backwards compared to the original]
Woody Guthrie [as Columbia Waters and in '44 as Muleskinner Blues (for Asch)]
Peter Alexander & Bill Ramsey [as Missouri Cowboy, du musst dein Pferd verkaufen]
Bob Dylan [and in '75 during the Rolling Thunder Revue]
Brothers Four [as Mule Skinner]
Robert Cogoi [as Une bière pour mon cheval]
Merle Haggard [on lp Same Train, Different Time]
Dolly Parton [as Blue Yodel No. 8; n°3 C&W]
Van Morrison [on The Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers - A Tribute and in '98 along with Chris Barber and Lonnie Donegan]
Ramblin' Jack Elliott & Arlo Guthrie [on Banjoman]
Good morning captain, good morning shine was also the first line in Tom Dickson's Labour Blues (1928).
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)