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Easy rider record6/25/2023 The later Folkways Collection SFW40201 notes „Easy Rider“ as from June 1946 with Folkways 2034 (FP34) as the first appearance. But the title „Easy rider (See see rider)-1“ does show up for June 1946, with „Disc 5501?, Fw FP 34“ as source. As it turns out, the discography by Fancourt/McGrath (2006) does list a number of songs from FP34, but „Easy Rider“ is not to be found there. Now, as Wolfe/Lornell noted, there was always doubt about the tracks of this May 1944-session: „“. ![]() The Document Records CD DOCD-5310 also reproduces this and puts the take at May 1944. Liner notes Bourgeois Blues – Lead Belly Legacy Vol. ![]() The liner notes of the first big CD-reissue of Folkways FP34, which is SFW40045, follow Wolfe/Lornell and also note the „Easy Rider“ take as from May 1944. These two takes mentioned separately by Wolfe/Lornell are the same take in question. They note the title „Easy Rider-2“ for June 1946, with an non-label „Disc 5501“ as first source. ![]() Wolfe/Lornell give the 1950-Folkways LP 4 (or 2034 or FP34) as the first appearance of this track. The title „Easy Rider (See See Rider)-1“ does show up in the discography by Wolfe/Lornell (1992) for the session in May 1944, but this session does have the Wolfe/Lornell disclaimer „“. The take certainly stems from some mid-1940s session Lead Belly made for Moses Asch – this much was always known, but the details of those sessions seemed to be unclear for a long time. When I went throught the available documentation, there seems to be an uncertainty or a mistake for the May 1944-session (and its following documentation) that goes something like this: Bernard noticed that these two takes seem to be the exact same take. My list used to have a take of „Easy Rider (See See Rider“ for the session of May 1944 (appearing on DOCD-5310 and SFW40045) and another take, „Easy Rider“, for June 1946 (appearing on DOCD-5311 and SFW40201). This time, a contradiction was spotted by Bernard Sigaud. The Last Of The Drifters (with Tom T.But aha! This is another update to my Complete Discography of Lead Belly recordings. Lee O'Daniel (And The Light Crust Dough Boys)īallad Of A Teenage Queen (with Roseanne Cash & The Everly Brothers) The Night Hank Williams Came To Town (with Waylon Jennings) Waymore Blues (with Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Carl Perkins) Now remastered for the very first time, using the original Mercury master tapes, the 24 tracks that make up the set feature Cash’s updated interpretations of classics songs “Get Rhythm” and “Tennessee Flat Top Box”, the rare B-side “Veteran’s Day”, Elvis Costello’s “The Big Light”, and his collaboration with U2, “The Wanderer”.įeaturing brand new liner notes by music writer Scott Schinder, Easy Rider represents the very first collection of Johnny Cash’s Mercury Records recording career. The highlights of that output are presented here, on the brand new compilation Easy Rider: The Best Of The Mercury Recordings. ![]() In the years that span those recordings, Johnny Cash released a total of six albums for Mercury Records. Seven years later, his last recording before signing with Rick Rubin’s American Recordings would be another collaboration, “The Wanderer”, with U2. In 1986, after almost 30 years on Columbia Records, Country music legend Johnny Cash released his first album on Mercury Records – Class Of ’55, in collaboration with fellow Sun Records alumni Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
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