Artist: Kelly Pace, Charlie Porter, L.T. Edwards, Willie Hubbard, Luther Williams, Napoleon Cooper, Albert Pate & Willie Lee Jones
Author: traditional
Label: Rounder
Year: 1940
Alan Lomax recording of an active chaingang, so good all the names got mentioned. Those guys knew what kind of 'long time man' it's about. Re-issued on the Library Of Congress cd Negro Work Songs And Calls.
Covers:
22 & Group [again a Lomax recording at Parchman; '22' was the only foreman left to motivate the others to sing like they always did; many of these youngsters weren't always in tune compared to the recordings the Lomax's made there in the thirties]
Harry Belafonte [on lp Midnight Special]
Bob Dylan [as Long Time, with Cynthia Gooding]
Big 3 [trio with Tim Rose, James Hendricks and Cass Elliott]
Tim Rose [as Long Time Man, crediting himself]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds [idem, following the Tim Rose arrangement, on Your Funeral... My Trial]
Hans Chew [idem]
Bob Dylan also recorded it a few times in 1961-62; remained unreleased.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)