HICK'S FAREWELL

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

Artist: Texas Gladden
Author: Rev. B. Hicks/William Walker
Label: Rounder
Year: 1959

Lomax recording in Salem, Virginia. Religious ballad written in 1798 by a baptist preacher from South Carolina and harmonized in 1835 (in Walkers Southern Harmony). Reissued on Alan Lomax Collection - Southern Journey Vol. 2. Same tune as in Take Me Back To The Sweet Sunny South (see there).

Covers:

1962:

Doc Watson

2003:

Chieftains [with Allison Moorer]

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