GOODNIGHT-LOVING TRAIL, THE
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Artist: Guy Carawan
Author: Bruce Phillips
Label: cur non
Year: 1972
On LP The Telling Takes Me Home, released by the Highlander Research and Educational Center in New Market, TN where Guy was musical director (see also: We Will Overcome). It's about a cattle trail named after Charlie Goodnight (a former Texas Ranger and presumed inventor of the chuck wagon) and legendary cattleman (cowboy) Oliver Loving. The trail runs through the most ill populated counties between Texas and New Mexico up to Wyoming (Goodnight and Loving Trail).
Covers:
- 1972:
Ed Trickett [for Folk Legacy]
- 1972:
- 1973:
- 1974:
Tom Waits [Live at Ebbets Field (Dime Store Novels Vol. 1)]
- 1975:
Utah Phillips [author, on LP El Capitan]
- 1975:
- 1984:
- 1984:
- 2008:
- 2008:
Joe Ely [live; Texas panhandler]
- 2009:
- 2016:
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Covers from artist:
- 1950
- OLD DOG BLUE
- 1957
- BLACK IS THE COLOR
- 1957
- DINK'S SONG
- 1957
- WILLIE THE WEEPER
- 1957
- WATER IS WIDE, THE
- 1958
- LAST NIGHT I HAD THE STRANGEST DREAM
- 1958
- AIN'T NO MORE CANE ON THIS BRAZOS
- 1958
- LONESOME ROAD BLUES
- 1958
- I'M GOING WHERE THE CHILLY WINDS DON'T BLOW
- 1959
- DON'T LET YOUR DEAL GO DOWN BLUES
- 1959
- AMEN
- 1959
- GROUND HOG
- 1959
- BLACK-EYED SUSIE
- 1959
- GO WITH ME TO THAT LAND
- 1959
- TURN AROUND
- 1959
- CHARLEY HE'S A GOOD OLD MAN
- 1959
- FLY AROUND MY PRETTY LITTLE MISS
- 1959
- LONESOME TRAVELER
- 1960
- WE WILL OVERCOME
- 1967
- PACK UP YOUR SORROWS
- 1972
- L&N DON'T STOP HERE ANYMORE, THE
- 1974
- BLACK WATERS
- 1974
- PARADISE
- 1977
- WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, THE
- 1985
- LITTLE PET
- 1990
- HIGH ON A MOUNTAIN
