Artiest: Dock Walsh
Auteur: traditional
Label: Columbia
Jaar: 1926
Pré Carolina Tar Heels. Heruit op lp Ballads And Breakdowns Of The Golden Era in '68.
Covers:
Tenneva Ramblers [als The Longest Train I Ever Saw; tijdens de Bristol Sessions]
Darby Tarlton [als Lonesome In The Pines]
Convicts of Bellwood Prison Camp, Atlanta, GA [idem; Lomax-opname]
J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers [idem]
Riley Puckett [idem]
Fiddlin' Arthur Smith [idem]
Lead Belly [als Black Girl (Where Did You Sleep Last Night); hoorde als chauffeur van de Lomaxen misschien die opname uit '34]
Bascom Lamar Lunsford [als To The Pines, To The Pines]
Lonnie Donegan [als Black Girl]
Bob Dylan [als Where Did You Sleep Last Night]
Journeymen [als Black Girl]
Sir Douglas Quintet [als It Was In The Pines]
Four Pennies [als Black Girl]
Marianne Faithfull [idem]
Clifford Jordan [zang: Sandra Douglass]
Shawn Phillips [idem]
Grateful Dead [als Where Did You Sleep Last Night]
Long John Baldry [idem]
Link Wray [als Georgia Pines]
Mark Lanegan [zanger van The Screaming Trees]
Nirvana [als Where Did You Sleep Last Night]
Billy Childish & The Blackhands [als Black Girl]
Snakefarm [idem]
Hans Theessink [als My Girl]
Country Ladies [als My Girl, toegeschreven aan Lead Belly]
Wandering [met Luther Dickinson]
Roland Van Campenhout [als Black Girl]
Tijs Delbeke [met Lady Lynn, Gregory Frateur en Stijn Meuris]
Pretty Things [als Black Girl]
Opgetekend in 1917 door Britse musicoloog Cecil Sharp bij Miss Lizzie Abner in de Oneida School, Clay Co., KY. Ene Judith McCulloh bestudeerde zo'n 160 versies van deze songcluster in haar ongepubliceerde Ph.D.-thesis: In The Pines - The Melodic-Textual Identity Of An American Lyric Folk-Song Cluster, University of Indiana, 1970. Haar conclusie: de song moet omstreeks 1870 ontstaan zijn in Georgia. De complexe wirwar van gelijklopende songs als The Longest Train, In The Pines, Reuben's Train, Train 45, Where Did You Sleep Last Night, Black Girl en 900 Miles wordt ook besproken in een boek over treinen van Norm Cohen: Long Steel Rail.
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)