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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Kelly Harrell
Author: traditional
Label: Victor
Year: 1925
According to Carl Sandburg, a song with English broadside roots (as The Journeyman or The Roving Journeyman). In 1917 Cecil Sharp heard a version by Mrs Townsley and Mrs Wilson in Pineville, KY, John A. Lomax one by cowboy band The Utah Buckaroos in Salt Lake City.
Covers:
Vernon Dalhart [under alias Al Craver for Columbia]
Gid Tanner's Skillet Lickers [with Riley Puckett and Clayton McMichem]
Woody Guthrie [as Gambling Man; even part of his lyrics match; shelved until '97]
Lonnie Donegan [n°1 UK as Gambling Man, covering Woody]
Brothers Four [as I Am A Roving Gambler]
Andy Griffith [in film A Face In The Crowd]
Hedy West [as Gambling Man]
Simon & Garfunkel [outtake Sounds Of Silence album]
Bob Dylan [live; crediting Bob Flick (Brothers Four)]
John Cohen & The Down Hill Strugglers [in film Inside Llewyn Davis]
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)