Artist: Stovepipe #1
Author: traditional
Label: Okeh
Year: 1924
Real name: Sam Jones. In medley with Sourwood Mountain. Became a Bluegrass Classic. There's a real Cripple Creek in the TenneVa border region (near Galax and Bristol).
Covers:
Powers Family [for Victor]
Hillbillies [from the Tenneva border region]
Fiddlin' John Carson [as Going Down To Cripple Creek]
Charlie Poole [as Shootin' Creek]
Woody Guthrie [with Cisco Houston and Sonny Terry]
Wade Ward [the real Cripple Creek flew just a few miles down the road from where he lived (Grayson Co, VA)]
Humblebums [with Billy Connolly]
Michelle Shocked [as Contest Coming (Cripple Creek)]
Up On Cripple Creek by The Band is a different song. So is Skip Spence's Cripple Creek on his Oar album ('69), covered by Mark Lanegan ('99) and Beck ('09).
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)