Artist: Bo Weavil Jackson
Author: traditional
Label: Paramount
Year: 1926
B-side of When The Saints Come Marching Home.
Covers:
Blind Gussie Nesbitt [as Canaan Land]
Carter Family [as On My Way To Canaan's Land]
Mahalia Jackson [at Newport as I'm On My Way]
Pete Seeger [idem]
Odetta [as I'm On My Way in medley]
Burt Lancaster [idem in film Elmer Gantry]
Barbara Dane [idem]
Flatt & Scruggs [idem]
Erik Darling [idem]
Highwaymen [idem, hit US]
Rooftop Singers [idem]
Take 6 [idem]
Mavis Staples [as On My Way]
In Civil Rights Movement context Freedom doubles for Canaan. Similar melody line as in Down On The Banks Of The O-Hi-O (see there).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)