LOST HIGHWAY

Created on 08/01/2002
Latest update on 02/12/2023

Artist: Leon Payne
Author: Leon Payne
Label: Capitol
Year: 1947

See also: I Love You Because.

Covers:

1949:

Hank Williams

1958:

Osborne Brothers

1960:

Johnny Horton

1961:

Hank Thompson

1967:

Don Gibson

1972:

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

1973:

Leon Russell

1983:

Gun Club

1985:

Jason & The Scorchers

1985:

Mekons

1989:

Waterboys

1990s:

Townes Van Zandt [died exactly 44 years after Hank]

1990s:

Jeff Buckley

2001:

Billy Bob Thornton

2006:

Jerry Lee Lewis [with Delaney Bramlett]

2007:

Lee Rocker

Melody and part of the lyrics borrowed from Irish ballad Rake And Rambling Rose. There's a 1928 American version by Clayton McMichen's McMichen-Lane String Band, later cut by Riley Puckett. Also as Rude And Rambing Man by The Carolina Tar Heels ('29), as Rambling Boy by Wade Mainer, The Carter Family and The New Lost City Ramblers, and as Rake And Rambling Boy by Joan Baez, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Long John Baldry.

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