DON'T LET YOUR DEAL GO DOWN BLUES

Created on 26/12/2005
Latest update on 06/12/2021

Artist: Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1925

His first hit, with Can I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight, Mister on the B-side (see there).

Covers:

1926:

Vernon Dalhart

1926:

Ernest V. Stoneman

1927:

Fiddlin' John Carson

1929:

Riley Puckett

1936:

W. Lee O'Daniel [western swing version]

1938:

Bob Wills

1957:

Flatt & Scruggs

1958:

New Lost City Ramblers

1959:

Guy Carawan

1966:

Kentucky Colonels

1971:

Doc & Merle Watson

1971:

Flying Burrito Brothers

1978:

Bill Keith

2000:

Dave Alvin

2007:

CCC Inc.

2009:

Loudon Wainwright III [as The Deal on his Charlie Poole Project]

Dylan played it live and was at least lyrically inspired for his own The Deal Goes Down on Modern Times.

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