I'VE BEEN DRIVING ON BALD MOUNTAIN

Created on 06/08/2020
Latest update on 14/08/2024

Artist: Odetta
Author: traditional
Label: Vanguard
Year: 1959

On LP My Eyes Have Seen; one year later also on Harry Belafonte LP Returns To Carnegie Hall.

Covers:

1959:

Coachmen [as Bald Mountain for Orbit; taking credits while using verses from Spike Driver Blues, Nine Pound Hammer, Take This Hammer and Roll On Buddy]

1964:

Kinks [on debut album, along with Bald Headed Woman, another track on that same Odetta album]

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HIT OR MISS

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1954
I'M ALABAMA BOUND
1954
I WAS BORN ABOUT TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO
1954
JOHN HENRY BLUES
1954
WADE IN THE WATER
1954
ANOTHER MAN DONE GONE
1954
SANTA ANNA
1954
WATER BOY
1954
RUN COME SEE JERUSALEM
1954
I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING
1954
FROZEN LOGGER, THE
1954
OLD DOG BLUE
1954
ROCK ISLAND LINE
1954
GO I'LL SEND THEE
1956
AIN'T NO MORE CANE ON THIS BRAZOS
1956
JACK O' DIAMOND BLUES
1956
MULE SKINNER BLUES
1956
GOD'S GONNA CUT YOU DOWN
1956
MOTHER'S CHILDREN (HAVE A HARD TIME)
1956
HAPPY IN PRISON
1956
IF I HAD A RIBBON BOW
1956
I'VE BEEN BUKED AND I'VE BEEN SCORNED
1956
DEEP BLUE SEA
1956
FORT HOLLAND CALYPSO SONG (SHAME & SORROW)
1957
MAID FREED FROM THE GALLOWS, THE
1957
SPIKE DRIVER BLUES
1957
DEVILISH MARY
1957
GREENSLEEVES
1957
LONESOME ROAD BLUES
1957
GO WITH ME TO THAT LAND
1957
JERRY (LORD DIS TIMBER GOT TO ROLL)
1957
OH, FREEDOM
1957
HUSH-A-BYE
1957
SAIL AWAY LADY
1957
I'M ON MY WAY TO THE KINGDOM LAND
1957
I'M GOING WHERE THE CHILLY WINDS DON'T BLOW
1958
BALLAD OF THE BOLL WEEVIL
1959
BLACK WOMAN
1959
FOGGY DEW, THE
1959
EVERYBODY'S DOWN ON ME
1959
SAY BROTHERS WILL YOU MEET US
1960
HUSH LITTLE BABY
1960
NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND OUT
1960
SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD
1960
RISE UP SHEPHERD AND FOLLOW
1960
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY - SECOND MOVEMENT (LARGO)
1960
PASTURES OF PLENTY
1960
DARK AS A DUNGEON
1960
PRETTY FAIR MISS
1960
MEETING AT THE BUILDING
1960
JOHN RILEY
1960
KEEP YO' HANDS ON THE PLOW, HOLD ON
1960s
WOKE UP THIS MORNING (WITH MY MIND ON JESUS)
1961
NO MORE AUCTION BLOCK
1961
JOSHUA FOUGHT THE BATTLE OF JERICHO
1961
HAMMER SONG, THE
1962
FOX, The
1962
MAKE ME A PALLET ON THE FLOOR
1962
WEEPING WILLOW BLUES
1962
GO DOWN SUNSHINE
1962
YONDER COME THE BLUES
1963
ROBERTA
1963
AIN'T NO GRAVE CAN HOLD MY BODY DOWN
1963
COOL WATER
1963
I NEVER WILL MARRY
1963
LOWLAND SEA, THE
1963
THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE
1963
ALBERTA, LET YO' HAIR HANG LOW
1963
WHAT MONTH WAS JESUS BORN IN
1963
ROCK ABOUT MY SARA JANE
1963
RAMBLING GAMBLER
1963
BLOWIN' IN THE WIND
1963
ALL MY TRIALS
1963
ON THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
1964
FROG WENT A COURTIN'
1964
KATY CRUEL
1964
DELIVERANCE WILL COME
1965
NOTTAMUN TOWN
1965
TOMORROW IS A LONG TIME
1965
WALKIN' DOWN THE LINE
1965
DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE
1965
MY NAME IS JOHN JOHANNA
1965
MR. TAMBOURINE MAN
1967
UNTIL IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GO
1969
BALLAD OF EASY RIDER
1970
NO EXPECTATIONS
1970
TAKE ME TO THE PILOT
1970
MAMA TOLD ME NOT TO COME
1973
MY GOD AND I
1999
CARELESS LOVE
1999
YOU GOT TO KNOW HOW
1999
LIVING WITH THE BLUES
2001
BOURGEOIS BLUES, THE
2001
IRENE
2001
IN THE PINES

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