HOW CAN A POOR MAN STAND SUCH TIMES AND LIVE

Created on 23/01/2006
Latest update on 15/01/2024

Artist: Blind Alfred Reed
Author: Alfred Reed
Label: Victor
Year: 1929

Singer & fiddler from West Virginia and a busker during the depression years. Discovered by Ralph Peer during the famous Bristol Sessions in 1927, along with The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers.

Covers:

1959:

New Lost City Ramblers [on Songs Of The Depression]

1970:

Ry Cooder

1976:

Michael Chapman

1976:

Hedy West

1983:

Alexis Korner

1984:

Del-Lords

1995:

David Lindley [with Hani Naser]

2007:

Bruce Springsteen [with extra lyrics; Live In Dublin]

2013:

UB40

2019:

Joe Bonamassa

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