PASSING THROUGH

Created on 01/02/2024
Latest update on 30/09/2025

Artist: Dick Blakeslee
Author: Dick Blakeslee
Label: home-cut disc/Bear Family
Year: 1948

English teacher from Chicago who'd sent his own composition to People's Songs in New York, where Pete Seeger picked it up on the spot. Released on Bear Family box set Songs For Political Action ('96).

Covers:

1956:

Pete Seeger [on Love Songs For Friends And Foes and in '58 with Sonny Terry]

1963:

Highwaymen [on Hootenanny With The Highwaymen]

1964:

David Houston

1965:

Cisco Houston

1973:

Leonard Cohen [on Live Songs as Passing Thru]

1975:

Earl Scruggs Revue

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