Artist: Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
Author: Willie Johnson
Label: Columbia
Year: 1924
Covers:
Charley Patton [as You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die]
Blind Willie Johnson [as You'll Need Somebody On Your Bond; with his first wife Angeline, the one he never divorced from]
Blind Willie Johnson [with his second wife Willie B. Harris as You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond]
Muddy Waters [as You Gotta Take Sick And Die Some Of These Days]
Brother George & His Sanctified Singers [as I Want King Jesus; with Brownie McGhee & Washboard Slim]
Buffy Sainte-Marie [version Donovan knew (see also Universal Soldier)]
Taj Mahal [crediting Buffy Sainte-Marie]
Big Joe Williams [as You Gonna Need King Jesus On Your Bond]
Eric Bibb [as You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond]
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)