DANCE ALL NIGHT WITH A BOTTLE IN YOUR HAND

Created on 17/09/2007
Latest update on 14/03/2024

Artist: Skillet Lickers
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1926

With Gid Tanner and Riley Puckett, already holding the line Give the fiddler a dram. In 1924 and also for Columbia Tanner & Puckett cut a mainly instrumental version as Alabama Gal, Give The Fiddler A Dram.

Covers:

1928:

Carter Brothers & Sam [as Give The Fiddler A Dram]

1946:

Lead Belly [as Fiddler A Dram (Smithsonian Folkways); a version with Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston was released in '62; the L.o.C. holds a version on him cut in '35 as Gwine Dig A Hole To Put The Devil In]

1964:

Holy Modal Rounders [idem]

1966:

New Lost City Ramblers [as Dance All Night and as Give The Fiddler A Dram]

1969:

Byrds [as Fiddler A Dram (Moog experiment), outtake of the Ballad Of Easy Rider sessions]

1977:

Doc Watson

1988:

Deighton Family

2002:

Chieftains [finale Down The Old Plank Road as Give The Fiddler A Dram, with The Del McCoury Band, Ricky Skaggs, Béla Fleck, John Hiatt...]

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