JORDAN IS A HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL

Created on 25/01/2023
Latest update on 20/04/2024

Artist: Uncle Dave Macon
Author: Dan Emmett
Label: Vocalion
Year: 1927

Roud #12153. With The Fruit Jar Drinkers. Song with a blackface minstrel show origin (1853). Dan Emmett also signed for Old Dan Tucker, Jim Crack Corn and Dixie!

Covers:

1928:

Riley Puckett [as On The Other Side Of Jordan]

1950:

Harry McClintock

1960:

Merle Travis [als Jordan Am A Hard Road To Travel]

1963:

New Lost City Ramblers [idem]

1963:

Peter, Paul & Mary [as Old Coat]

1988:

Norman & Nancy Blake [as Jordan Am A Hard Road To Travel]

2003:

Chieftains with John Hiatt [on Further Along The Old Plank Road]

2008:

Lisa Meyer [as Richmond Is A Hard Road To Travel]

2016:

Jon Boden [as Jordan Is A Hard Road]

Contact


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Arnold Rypens
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