WISHED I WAS IN HEAVEN SITTING DOWN
Created on 21/12/2000Latest update on 21/12/2000
Artist: Denise Gardner-Mattie Gardner & Fred McDowell
Author: traditional
Label: Rounder
Year: 1959
Recording shelved in the Archive of Southern Folklore (Library of Congress). Previously unreleased until the Lomax reissues. Recorded near Como, MS, Fred McDowell's homestead.
Covers:
- 1959:
Fred McDowell [out in the open, one of Alan Lomax's best recordings]
- 1964:
- 1992:
- 2000:
R.L. Burnside [who sang gospel as a kid with his sister]
Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens. So be it, says the sharecropper who Wished He Was In Heaven Sitting Down after a life of standing up.
