Covers:

1930:

Eddie Head & His Family [sanctified pater familias from Atlanta as Down On Me]

1934:

Josh White [idem]

1940:

Dock Reed [John A. Lomax recording]

1959:

Odetta

1963:

Eric Von Schmidt

1965:

Mary Pinckney [on Johns Island, South Carolina, a Guy Carawan recording]

1966:

Big Brother & The Holding Company [early live version; with a really downhearted Janis Joplin; "...Looks like the whole damn world is down on me"]

1967:

Bob Dylan & The Band [Basement tape as Down On Me]

1997:

Paul Black [all as Down On Me]