Artist: Seventh Day Adventists Choir
Author: trad./Charles A. Tindley
Label: Columbia
Year: 1926
Published in 1916. Tindley also wrote Stand By Me (1905) and I'll Overcome Some Day (1901). See there. See also: You Must Unload.
Covers:
Blind Joe Taggart [three days later]
Jepson & Donaldson [as Leave It There]
Frank & James McCravy [for Vocalion]
Washington Phillips [as Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There for Columbia]
Pace Jubilee Singers [idem]
Blind Roosevelt Graves [as Take Your Burden To The Lord]
Clay & Scott [Clarence Clay & William Scott, two blind buskers from Philadelphia, recorded by folk & gospel collector Pete Welding]
Bob Dylan [as Death Is Not The End, outtake Infidels]
Waterboys [idem; live]
Bob Dylan [on Down In The Groove]
Gavin Friday [idem, with Allen Ginsberg on harmonium]
Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan [idem]
Freek de Jonge & Stips [as Leven Na De Dood; n°1 NL]
Vliegende Panters [as Zinloos Geweld; influenced by Freek De Jonge's approach]
There are more outtakes from these Infidels sessions. Dylan had booked New York's Power Station studio for a full month, something he'd never done before. See also: Hard Times Blues.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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