Artist: Henry Whitter
Author: traditional
Label: Okeh
Year: 1924
Recorded in 1923.
Covers:
Blue Ridge Duo [for Edison]
Cliff Carlisle [same melody in Down In The Jailhouse On My Knees]
Cliff Carlisle [as Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad]
Cherokee Ramblers [idem]
Wade Ward [as Chilly Winds; clawhammer banjo instrumental]
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]
Burl Ives [as I'm Going Down The Road]
Roy Hall [instr.]
Odetta [as Chilly Winds]
Elizabeth Cotten [as Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad]
Guy Carawan [as Chilly Winds]
Bill Monroe [as Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad]
Cisco Houston [as Chilly Winds]
Ed McCurdy [idem]
Kingston Trio [idem]
Nancy Ames [as Chilly Winds]
Oriel Smith [as Chilly Winds]
Serendipity Singers [as Down Where The Winds Blow]
Carolina Tar Heels [as Ain't Going To Be Treated This A-Way]
Nina Simone [as Chilly Winds Don't Blow]
Seekers [as Chilly Winds, crediting band member Keith Potger]
Jay & The Americans [idem]
Chet Atkins [instr.]
Ramblin' Jack Elliott [as I'm Going Down The Road]
Bob Dylan & The Band [Basement tape as Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad]
John Stewart [as Chilly Winds]
Deighton Family [as Going Down The Road]
Etta Baker [as Going Down The Road Feeling Bad]
Marshall Tucker Band [idem]
Alvin Youngblood Hart [as Chilly Winds]
Eric Bibb [as Going Down The Road Feeling Bad]
Bobby Bare [idem]
Rhiannon Giddens [in TV series Nashville]
Johnny Dowd [as Going Down The Road Feeling Bad]
Also influenced Canned Heat's Going Up The Country.
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)