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:
G.B. Grayson & Henry Whitter [guitarist and fiddler, together the ultimate old-timey Appalachians; see also: Tom Dooley]
Wade Mainer [banjo player from North Carolina; idem]
Maddox Brothers [as Short Life And It's Troubles]
Stanley Brothers [as A Life of Sorrow]
Ralph Stanley [on cd Short Life Of Trouble full with songs from the Grayson & Whitter songbook]
Dave Alvin [on cd Public Domain ("They belong to nobody, they belong to all of us")]
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)