LONESOME ROAD BLUES

Created on 01/10/2003
Latest update on 21/02/2024

Artist: Henry Whitter
Author: traditional
Label: Okeh
Year: 1924

Recorded in 1923.

Covers:

1924:

Blue Ridge Duo [for Edison]

1927:

Ernest V. Stoneman

1927:

Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters

1927:

Hillbillies

1930:

Cliff Carlisle [same melody in Down In The Jailhouse On My Knees]

1933:

Cliff Carlisle [as Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad]

1935:

Cherokee Ramblers [idem]

1937:

Wade Ward [as Chilly Winds; clawhammer banjo instrumental]

1940:

Woody Guthrie [as Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad for Alan Lomax; also in film Grapes Of Wrath; Woody assumed it was written by a runaway slave; in '50 as Blowing Down This Old Dusty Road for Asch]

1949:

Burl Ives [as I'm Going Down The Road]

1953:

Roy Hall [instr.]

1957:

Dick Weissman & Eric Weissberg [idem]

1957:

Odetta [as Chilly Winds]

1958:

Elizabeth Cotten [as Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad]

1958:

Guy Carawan [as Chilly Winds]

1960:

Bill Monroe [as Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad]

1960:

Cisco Houston [as Chilly Winds]

1960:

Tompall & The Glaser Brothers [idem]

1961:

Ed McCurdy [idem]

1962:

Kingston Trio [idem]

1963:

Doc Watson

1963:

Nancy Ames [as Chilly Winds]

1964:

Flatt & Scruggs

1964:

Oriel Smith [as Chilly Winds]

1964:

Serendipity Singers [as Down Where The Winds Blow]

1965:

Carolina Tar Heels [as Ain't Going To Be Treated This A-Way]

1965:

Nina Simone [as Chilly Winds Don't Blow]

1965:

Seekers [as Chilly Winds, crediting band member Keith Potger]

1966:

Jay & The Americans [idem]

1967:

Chet Atkins [instr.]

1967:

Ramblin' Jack Elliott [as I'm Going Down The Road]

1967:

Bob Dylan & The Band [Basement tape as Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad]

1968:

Earl Scruggs

1971:

Grateful Dead

1971:

Delaney & Bonnie

1971:

Wade Mainer

1973:

John Stewart [as Chilly Winds]

1974:

Merle Travis

1982:

Johnny Cash

1987:

Deighton Family [as Going Down The Road]

1991:

Jody Stecher

1991:

Etta Baker [as Going Down The Road Feeling Bad]

1999:

Marshall Tucker Band [idem]

2002:

Alvin Youngblood Hart [as Chilly Winds]

2008:

Magic Slim

2011:

Eric Bibb [as Going Down The Road Feeling Bad]

2012:

Bobby Bare [idem]

2016:

Lucinda Williams & Friends

2017:

Rhiannon Giddens [in TV series Nashville]

2018:

Johnny Dowd [as Going Down The Road Feeling Bad]

Also influenced Canned Heat's Going Up The Country.

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