PROGRAM # 2003, "Constant Sorrow and Natural Blues" (First aired on 2/4/02)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Moby |
Play |
Natural Blues, excerpt [2:00] |
V2/BMG Records #27049** www.v2music.com or www.moby.org |
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
Soundtrack |
Soggy Bottom Boys: I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow [3:00] |
Mercury #170 069** also available at Amazon.com* |
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Leadbelly |
Huddie Ledbetter (2-LP set) |
John Hardy, take 2, excerpt [1:00] |
Fantasy Records #24715. There are now numerous CD reissues of Leadbelly performing this song. |
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Last Forever |
Trainfare Home |
John Doe #24 [4:00] |
Nonesuch #79604** |
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There Is No Eye |
Music for Photographs by John Cohen |
Roscoe Holcomb: Man of Constant Sorrow [3:00] |
Smithsonian Folkways #40091** |
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The Wayfaring Strangers |
Shifting Sands of Time |
Man of Constant Sorrow [3:30] |
Rounder #11661 0484** info@rounder.com or www.thewayfaringstrangers.com * |
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Last Forever |
Trainfare Home |
Louis Collins/Spike Driver Blues [4:00] |
See above. |
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Moby |
Play |
Honey [3:30] |
See above. |
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David Rothenberg, Graham Boone, and Glen Velez |
Live, WNYC, March 11, 1996 |
A Man of Constant Sorrow [5:00] |
A version of this song appears on the trio's CD On The Cliffs Of The Heart, New Tone #nt6744. Italian import, www.felmay.it, available online at Amazon.com* |
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
Soundtrack |
Chris Thomas King: Hard Time Killing Floor Blues [2:30] |
See above. |
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John Fahey |
Days Have Gone By |
The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California [4:30] |
Takoma #6509** www.fantasyjazz.com * |
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Gary Lucas |
Live, WNYC/BBC, January 1, 2001 |
Bindlestiff Blues/The Opener of the Way [4:30] |
The latter tune appears on his CD Street of Lost Brothers, |
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
Soundtrack |
Norman Blake: I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow [2:30]; John Hartford: I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow [1:00] |
See above. |
*,** Find the recordings you've heard - go to the New Sounds Recordings Information page


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