SHORT LIFE OF TROUBLE, A

Created on 26/10/2000
Latest update on 13/10/2022

Artist: Burnett & Rutherford
Author: Dick Burnett
Label: Document
Year: 1926

Richard 'Dick' Burnett, blind singer/banjo player and songwriter from Monticello, KY who wrote I'm A Man Of Constant Sorrow and his much younger crony, fiddler Leonard Rutherford. Dick hammers away on his banjo like a Belgian horse on the hobbled streets of Bruges.

Covers:

1928:

Riley Puckett

1928:

G.B. Grayson & Henry Whitter [guitarist and fiddler, together the ultimate old-timey Appalachians; see also: Tom Dooley]

1937:

Wade Mainer [banjo player from North Carolina; idem]

1941:

Blue Sky Boys

1950:

Maddox Brothers [as Short Life And It's Troubles]

1952:

Jean Ritchie

1953:

Stanley Brothers [as A Life of Sorrow]

1962:

Doc Watson

1962:

Flatt & Scruggs

1990:

Mac Wiseman

1995:

Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin

1996:

Ralph Stanley [on cd Short Life Of Trouble full with songs from the Grayson & Whitter songbook]

2000:

Dave Alvin [on cd Public Domain ("They belong to nobody, they belong to all of us")]

2007:

Carolina Chocolate Drops

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