Songs of the Seeger Sessions - John Henry

The Songs of

1. Old Dan Tucker
2. Jesse James
3. Mrs. McGrath
4. O Mary Don't You Weep
5. John Henry
6. Erie Canal
7. Jacob's Ladder
8. My Oklahoma Home
9. Eyes On the Prize
10. Shenandoah
11. Pay Me My Money Down
12. We Shall Overcome
13. Froggie Went A Courtin'
14. Buffalo Gals
15. How Can I Keep From Singing

American Land Edition Additional Songs:

16. How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live
17. Bring 'Em Home
18. American Land

Seeger Sessions Tour Songs:

1. Long Black Veil

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Recordings

Notes

John Henry

Artist	Year	Genre	Album	Notes
101 Strings Orchestra		Easy Listening	Soul of Music U.S.A.
Aaron McDaris	2005	Country	First Time Around	banjo/bluegress instrumental
Abe Horton	1974	Folk	field recording by Blanton Owen and Abe Horton	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Ace Cannon	1987	Rock	Golden Classics	saxophone instrumental; check recording date
Addie Leffew	1961	Folk	field recording by Peter Hoover	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Albert Josey	1937	Folk	Library of Congress Banjo Collection	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Allison Mathis & Jesse Stroller	1941	Blues	Red River Blues 1934-1943
Archie Edwards	1989	Blues	Blues 'n Bones
Area Code 615	1969	Country	Area Code 615/A Trip in the Country	instrumental; released 2000
Arlo Guthrie	1989	Blues	Leadbelly: A Tribute	check artists/vocalist
Arnie Naiman and Chris Coole	1997	Folk	5 Strings Attached with No Backing
Art Rosenbaum	1974	Folk	Five String Banjo
Arthur Bell	193?	Blues	Field Recordings, Vol. 2: North & South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas (1926-1943)	released 1998; a capella; http://sunsite.unc.edu/john_henry/audio/bell2.ram
Arthur Lyman	1961	Easy Listening	Yellow Bird	vibraphone instrumental
Austin Harmon	1939	Folk	field recording by Herbert Halpert	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Bascom Lamar Lunsford	1935	Folk	field recording by William Cabell Greet and George W. Hibbitt	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Bassholes	1995	Rock	Haunted Hill
Béla Fleck	1985	Jazz	Banjo Picking Styles
Bertrando Goio		Folk	online	harmonica instrumental; http://www.ibiblio.org/john_henry/13JohnHenry.mp3
Big Bill Broonzy	1951	Blues	The Chronological Big Bill Broonzy: 1951	http://sunsite.unc.edu/john_henry/audio/broonzy2.ram
Big Boy	1998	Blues	Too Late, Too Late, Vol. 10: 1926-1951	check recording date
Big Walter "Shakey" Horton	1964	Blues	The Soul of Blues Harmonica	solo harmonica instrumental
Bill Clifton	1952	Folk	Bluegrass Session 1952
Bill Cornett	1959	Folk	Mountain Music of Kentucky
Bill Davis & Jean Davis	195?	Country	Close to Home: Old Time Music From Mike Seeger's Collection (1952-1967)	guitar instrumental
Bill Jorgenson	2001	Country	Father of Wisconsin Bluegrass
Bill McAdoo and Pete Seeger	1960	Folk	Bill McAdoo Sings with Guitar	http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=342#
Bill Monroe	1954	Folk	"Bill Monroe: Bluegrass 1950-1958"	"New John Henry Blues"; http://sunsite.unc.edu/john_henry/audio/BMonroe.ram
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys	1962	Folk	There Is No Eye: Music for Photographs
Bill Ramsey	1965	Jazz	Songs from Home
Bill Rhoades & Alan Hager	1998	Blues	Runnin' & Ramblin'	harmonica instrumental
Bill Smith	1959	Jazz	Folk Jazz	jazz clarinet instrumental
Bill Williams	1969	Folk	These Blues is Meant to be Barrelhoused
Bill Wood	1959	Folk	Folk Singers 'Round Harvard Square
Billie & De De Pierce	1959	Jazz	Gulf Coast Blues
Billy Edd Wheeler		Bluegrass	Billy Edd and Bluegrass, Too	http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=2661
Billy Kyle	1938	Jazz	The Chronological Billy Kyle: 1937-1938
Blind Arvella Gray	1964	Blues	And This Is Maxwell Street	another version on "Singing Drifter" from 1972
Blind Connie Williams	1961	Blues	Philadelphia Street Singer
Blind James Campbell	1962	Blues	Blind James Campbell and His Nashville Street Band
Bob Fox	2002	Blues	Blues Makes Me Happy
Bob Gibson	1957	Folk	I Come For to Sing	stream at http://www.engine-studios.com/vpp/Folk/Pages/BGibson2Sing_JannaMarkBluegrass.html
Bob Gibson & Bob Camp	1961	Folk	Bob Gibson & Camp at the Gate of Horn	"The Thinking Man" (parody)
Bob Gibson & Bob Camp	1986	Folk	Gibson & Camp ...Revisited	"John Henry, The Thinking Man" (parody, revised from 1961 version)
Bob Hadley	1975	Rock	Tunes from the Well
Booker T. Sapps	1935	Blues	Field Recordings, Vol. 7: Florida
Brother John Sellers	1954	Gospel	Brother John Sellers Sings Blues and Folk Songs
Brownie McGhee / Sonny Terry	1958	Blues	Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry Sing
Bruce Buckley	1955	Folk	Ohio Valley Ballads	http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=145#
Bruce Molsky & Big Hoedown	1997	Country	Bruce Moisky & Big Hoedown	fiddle/guitar
Bruce Molsky & Big Hoedown	1998	Country	A Prairie Home Companion, January 31, 1998	http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/19980131/
Buck Quesenberry and Dorothy Rorick	1974	Folk	field recording by Tom Carter	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Buell Kazee	1958	Country	Buell Kazee Sings and Plays	Folkways
Burl Ives	1960	Folk	Return of the Wayfaring Stranger
Buster Brown	1960	Blues	New King of the Blues
Calvin Cole	1960	Folk	field recording by Peter Hoover	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Carl Jackson	1970	Country	Songs of the South	confirm recording date; banjo instrumental
Carl Martin	1966	Blues	Crow Jane Blues
Carter Brothers	2001	Country	Cedarhouse	bluegrass instrumental; http://weedtracks.com/shnyfile/download/107150.wma
Casey Anderson	1960	Folk	Goin' Places
Charlie Cline	1991	Country	Goin' Up Copper Creek
Charlie Daniels	1997	Country	By the Light of the Moon: Campfire Songs & Cowboy Tunes
Charlie Lowe with Tommy Jarrell and Ernest East	1952	Folk	field recording by B.F. Jarrell	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Charlie McCoy	1973	Country	Good Time Charlie
Charlie Woods	1974	Folk	field recording by Tom Carter	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Chet Atkins	1959	Country	Hum & Strum Along With Chet Atkins
Chicago String Band	1966	Jazz	Chicago String Band	guitar/harmonica instrumental
Chris Jones	1996	Country	Blinded by the Rose
'Cile Turner	2006	Folk	Makin' Glory
Clarence Hound Dog	2005	Folk	Back Porch Bluegrass	banjo instrumental
Clarence Jackson	2003	Country	Country Swingin' Slide Guitar Pickin': 24 Great Dobro	confrim recording date; dobro/harmonica instrumental
Clovest Crotts and Bobby Crotts	1962	Folk	field recording by Peter Hoover	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Dallas Smith & the Boys From Shiloh	2002	Rock	Still Pickin'	bluegrass instrumental
Dan Crary	2000	Country	Dan Crary & Lonnie Hoppers	guitar/fiddle instrumental
Dave Bing, Ron Mullennex, Mark Payne, Gerry Milnes, and Jim Martin		Folk	Gandydancer
Dave Dudley	1964	Country	Songs About the Working Man
Dave Morehouse	1991	Folk	Acoustic News!
Dave Van Ronk	1959	Folk	Ballads, Blues, and a Spiritual
David Grier	2002	Country	I've Got the House to Myself	guitar instrumental
David Grisman	197?	Country	Early Dawg	mandolin/guitar instrumental; released 1980
David Holt	1991	Country	Grandfather's Greatest Hits
David Johnson	1983	Country	Smoky Mountain Memories: Bluegrass Favorites	banjo instrumental; http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=1903#
David Monson	2005		Old Town	piano/banjo instrumental; http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/monson
David Thompson	1963	Folk	field recording by Henry Felt and Lee B. Haggerty	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
DeFord Bailey	1928	Folk	Black & White Hillbilly Music: Early Harmonica Recordings from the 1920s & 1930's	harmonica instrumenal
Dennis O. "Dent" Wimmer	1974	Folk	field recording by Tom Carter	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Dermot Byrne	199?	Folk	Raw Whisky Blues	released 2000
Dink Roberts	1974	Folk	Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia	http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=2411
Doc & Merle Watson	1967	Folk	Home Sweet Home
Doc Watson	1988	Folk	Sings Songs for Little Pickers
Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley	1962	Folk	Original Folkways Recordings: 1960-1962	http://sunsite.unc.edu/john_henry/audio/ashwats2.ram
Doc Watson & Larry Perkins	1998	Folk	A Glad Reunion Day	"The Death of John Henry"
Dock Boggs	1965	Folk	Doc Boggs, Vol. 2	http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=232
Dog Mountain	2005	Country	Lift a Leg	different melody
Don Reno & Red Smiley	1957	Country	On Stage
Doo Rag	1995	Rock	Chuncked & Muddled
Doug Jernigan	1976	Country	Roadside Rag
Dry Branch Fire Squad	1996	Country	Live! at Last	bluegrass instrumental
Duane Eddy	1960	Rock	Songs of Our Heritage	guitar instrumental
Dwight Diller	199?	Folk	Piney Woods	"John Henry Blues"; http://www.dwightdiller.com/DDdisc.html#piney_woods
Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers	1927	Country	Earl Johnson: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 1	"John Henry Blues"
Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys	1959	Folk	Folk Songs from the Blue Grass
Eat'n'Run		Folk	Driving Me Crazy	http://www.voyagerrecords.com/new.htm
Ed Lewis	1959	Folk	Southern Journey, Vol. 5: Bad Man Ballads/Songs of Outlaws and Desperados	a capella
Ed McCurdy		Folk	The Best of Ed McCurdy
Eddie "One String" Jones	1960	Blues	One String Blues
Eddie Lee "Mustright" Jones and Family	1965	Blues	Yonder Go That Old Black Dog: Blues, Spirituals and Folksongs from Rural Georgia
Elijah Brown	196?	Blues	Down Home Slide	slide guitar
Elmer Bird	1980?	Folk	Elmer's Greatest Licks
Eric Weissberg, Tom Paley, Art Rosenbaum, Marshall Brickman	1962	Folk	Folk Banjo Styles
Ethel Arp	1964	Folk	field recording by Peter Hoover	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Etheridge Scott	1968	Folk	field recording	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html; fiddle bluegrass
Etta Baker	1956	Folk	Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians	guitar instrumental; track appears on many albums
Etta Baker & Cora Phillips	1988	Blues	Carolina Breakdown	guitar instrumental
Etta Baker with Taj Mahal	1998	Blues	Etta Baker With Taj Mahal	guitar instrumental
Fiddlin' John Carson	1924	Country	Fiddlin' John Carson: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order	"John Henry Blues"; http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20020902.me.johnhenry.john.ram
Flatt & Scruggs	1961	Country	Foggy Mountain Banjo	bluegrass instrumental
Fleming Brown	1962	Folk	Appalachian Banjo Songs and Ballads	http://www.folk-legacy.com/store/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=30
Foster & Larue	1996	R&B	Stirring with Soul	check recording date
Frances Faye	1957	Vocal	Sings Folk Songs
Frank Hamilton	1962	Folk	Frank Hamilton Sings Folk Songs	http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=333#
Frank Hovington	1975	Blues	Lonesome Road Blues	lyrics variant
Freak Mountain Ramblers	2001	Folk	Freak Mountain Ramblers
Fred Cockerham and Tommy Jarrell	1969	Folk	field recording by Blanton Owen	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Fred McFalls, Ben Bryson, Paul Wiley, The Mills Family, Henry Vanoy, Roy Caudill, Ellis Cowan	1968	Folk	Comin' Round the Mountain: Old Time Southern Singing and Playing in Western Washington	http://www.voyagerrecords.com/new.htm
Furry Lewis	1953	Blues	Compact Jazz: Best of Blues	Lewis recorded several versions of this song; http://sunsite.unc.edu/john_henry/audio/FurryLewis.ram
Gabriel Brown	1935	Blues	Field Recordings, Vol. 7: Florida
Garrison Keillor & Guy's All-Star Shoe Band	2004	Folk	A Prairie Home Companion, November 13, 2004	spoof; http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2004/11/13/scripts/henry.shtml
Garrison Keillor, Guy's All-Star Shoe Band & Brad Paisley	2006	Folk	A Prairie Home Companion, April 8, 2006	spoof; http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2006/04/08/scripts/henry.shtml
George Payne and Richard Blaustein	1974	Folk	field recording by Blanton Owen	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
George Pegram	1964	Country	George Pegram	check recording date; 1950s?
George Roard and John Hensley	1938	Folk	field recording by Mary Elizabeth Barnicle	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
George Stoneman	1941	Folk	field recording by Joe Liss, Alan Lomax and Jerry Wiesner	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
George Thacker	1995	Folk	Blazing a New Trail	bluegrass instrumental
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings with Old Crow Medicine Show	2004	Folk	video from BBC Four	http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/music/ram/gillian_welch.ram
Glen Glenn	196?	Rock	Glen Rocks
Glen Smith	197?	Country	Clawhammer Banjo, Vol. 3	banjo instrumental
Glen Stoneman	1959	Folk	Southern Journey, Vol. 2: Ballads and Breakdown	fiddle instrumental
Glenn Smith	1959	Folk	field recording by Peter Hoover	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Glenn Yarbrough & The Limeliters	1965	Folk	Chicago Tapes: First Set
Golden Gate Quartet	1940	Gospel	Freedom: The Golden Gate Quartet at the Library of Congress
Grandpa Jones	1969	Country	Grandpa Jones: Live
Great American String Band with Benny Martin	1991	Country	200 Years of American Heritage in Song: 100 Classics
Greg Hooven	1993	Folk	Tribute to Fred Cockerham
Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey, and Robert Pete Williams	1959	Blues	Prison Worksongs
Hank Thompson	1956	Country	Songs of the Brazos Valley
Happy Traum	1975	Folk	Relax Your Mind
Harold B. Hazelhurst	1939	Folk	field recording by Herbert Halpert	http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020228.atc.johnhenry.ram; a capella
Harry Belafonte	1954	Vocal	Island in the Sun [Bear Family Box Set]
Harvey Reid	2003	Folk	The Autoharp Album	autoharp instrumental
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard	196?	Folk	Pioneering Women of Bluegrass	guitar/fiddle instrumental
Henry Hurt Stilwell with Abe Horton and Zane Horton	1969	Folk	field recording by Abe Horton	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Henry Johnson	1995	Blues	Union County Flash!
Henry Thomas	1927	Blues	Ragtime Texas: 1927-1929	http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20020902.me.johnhenry.thomas.ram
Hillstomp	2005	Rock	One Word
Hit Crew	2003	Folk	Drew's Famous 30 Greatest Folk Songs	made to sound like Woody and Cisco
Hobart Smith	1963	Folk	In Sacred Trust: The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes	slide guitar instrumental; Smith did a field recording with Alan Lomax in 1942
Hookhead & Mare	2002	Rock	Chilly Northern Women	lyrics variant
Hot Rize	1986	Country	Traditional Ties
Howard Armstrong	1985	Blues	Louie Bluie
Howard Hall with the Pine River Boys	1974	Folk	field recording by Blanton Owen	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Hoyt Axton	1962	Country	The Balladeer
Hylo Brown	195?	Country	1954-1960
Hylo Brown and the Timberliners with Earl Scruggs	1959	Country	Newport Folk Festival: Best of Bluegrass 1959-1966
I.D. Stamper	1977	Folk	Red Wing
Iron Mountain String Band	1992?	Folk	Music From the Mountain
J. M. Mullins	1937	Folk	filed recording by Alan and Elizabeth Lomax	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
J. Paul Miles with Wade Miles and Vernon Miles	1940	Folk	field recording by John A. and Ruby T. Lomax	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
J.C. and Vernon Sutphin	1957	Folk	The Stoneman Family - Sutphin, Foreacre, and Dickens: Old-Time Tunes of the South	http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=314#
J.J. Neece, Cleve and V.L. Sutphin	195?	Folk	Close to Home: Old Time Music From Mike Seeger's Collection (1952-1967)	fiddle instrumental
James "Bat" Robinson	196?	Blues	Down Home Harp	guitar/harmonica instrumental
James Alan Shelton	1999	Country	Standing Room Only	labelled "John Henry" but is "The Death of John Henry"
James Roberts	1974	Folk	Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia	banjo instrumental
Jazz Gillum	193?	Blues	Blues, Boogie, Rhythm and More Blues	harmonica instrumenal; check recording date
Jean Schilling	1967	Folk	Old Traditions	guitar instrumental
Jeffrey Lee Pierce	1982	Rock	Early Warning	solo recording; listed as "Gun Club" on album
Jerry Lee Lewis	195?	Rock	Complete Sun Singles, Vol. 4	check recording date
Jerry Reed	1968	Country	Nashville Underground
Jesse Fuller	1963	Blues	San Francisco Bay Blues
Jim Greene	1995	Folk	Just a Dream	released 1997
Jim Mills	1998	Country	Bound to Ride	"John Henry Blues"
Jimmie Skinner	195?	Country	Doin' My Time	check recording date
Jimmie Skinner	195?	Country	Doin' My Time	"John Henry and the Waterboy"
Jimmie Tarlton	1963	Blues	Steel Guitar Rag
Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys	1958?	Country	Hit Parade of Love: Live 1958-1960	banjo/bluegress instrumental
Jimmy Owens	193?	Blues	Field Recordings, Vol. 1: Virginia (1936-1941)	check recording date
Jo Stafford	1959	Vocal	Ballad of the Blues
Joe and Odell Thompson	1998	Folk	Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia	banjo/fiddle instrumental; check recording date
Joe Craven	2003	Rock	Mo' Joe	updated story
Joe Glazer	195?	Folk	Joe Glazer Sings Folksongs
Joe Goldmark	1996	Folk	Goldmark Round Up Steelin' from His Past	country-rock instrumental
Joe Uehlein & The U-Liners		Folk	http://www.uliners.com/music.htm	http://www.ibiblio.org/john_henry/JohnHenry.mp3
John Cephas	197?	Folk	Virginia Traditions: Non-Blues Secular Black Music	http://www.carts.org/jh_full2.ram
John Cephas & Phil Wiggins	1986	Blues	Dog Days of August	check artists
John Davis	193?	Blues	Field Recordings, Vol. 2: North & South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas (1926-1943)	check artist -- Bill Davis?
John Fahey	1959	Folk	Legend of Blind Joe Death	solo guitar instrumental; melodic variation; John Henry Variations"; http://sunsite.unc.edu/john_henry/audio/Faheyvariations.ram
John Hartford	1971	Country	Steam Powered Aereo-Takes	fiddle/bluegrass instrumental
John Hartford	1992	Country	Goin' Back to Dixie	"Death of John Henry"
John Henry Barbee	1964	Blues	Blues Masters, Vol. 3: I Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton
John Jackson	1965	Blues	Blues and Country Dance Tunes from Virginia	included as part of Springsteen's walk-in music in 2005
John Jacob Niles	1958	Rock	I Wonder As I Wander
John Lee Hooker	1949	Blues	Unknown John Lee Hooker: 1949 Recordings	released 2000
John Lomax, Jr.	1956	Folk	John A. Lomax, Jr. Sings American Folk Songs	http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=324#
John McEuen	1993	Country	String Wizards 2	"John Henry in Manhattan"; instrumental
John McCutcheon	1983	Folk	Howjadoo
John Renbourn	1965	Folk	John Renbourn
John Snipes	1974	Folk	field recording by Cece Conway and Tommy Thompson	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Johnny Cash	1963	Country	Blood, Sweat and Tears	"The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer"; http://sunsite.unc.edu/john_henry/audio/JCash.ram; "Ballad of John Henry" performed on ABC TV show, 7/12/69
Johnny Horton	1957	Country	Live Recordings from the Louisiana Hayride
Johnny Western	1993	Country	Heroes and Cowboys	check recording date
Joseph Aiken	1966	Folk	field recording by Alan Jabbour	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Josh White	1945	Folk	In Chronological Order, Vol. 6 (1944-1945)
Josh White	1955	Folk	The Electra Years	"The Story of John Henry" (an entire album side, with spoken passages and music passages from several songs, including "John Henry")
Just Cause	2004	Jazz	Standards	dixieland instrumental; http://www.jodyjazz.com/just.cause.html
Keel Brothers	2004	Country	Keel Brothers, Vol. 1	guitar instrumental
Ken Coyler Skiffle Group	1953	Jazz	Best of British Jazz From the BBC Jazz Club, Vol. 6	w/ Lonnie Donegan
Kenny Baker	1994	Country	Puritan Sessions	guitar instrumental
Kevin Maynor	1998	Vocal	Paul Robeson Remembered
Kilby Snow	1962	Folk	Mountain Music Played on the Autoharp	http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=212
King Bishop & the Squares	2000	Rock	Deeper Blues	parody about a chess-playing man
Kristina Olsen	1992	Country	Kristina Olsen	Different perspective...
Kyle Creed and Fred Cockerham	2005	Country	Clawhammer Banjo, Vol. 1
Larry Penn	1986	Folk	Labor Concert 1986	http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/larrypenn
Larry Perkins / Jimmy Martin	1998	Folk	A Glad Reunion Day	"The Death of John Henry"
Leadbelly	194?	Folk	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 (1940-1943)	Leadbelly recorded many versions of this song, available of many collections; http://sunsite.unc.edu/john_henry/audio/Leadbelly.ram (from Last Sessions, 1948)
Leadbelly, Brownie McGhee, and Sonny Terry	1950	Folk	Jazz, Vol. 1: South	http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=454#; check recording date
Lenny Breau	1956	Jazz	Boy Wonder
Leon Bibb	1962	Folk	Tol' My Captain. Chain Gang and Work Songs	Bibb also performed for a Broadway dance version in 1988
Leonard Bartlett with Schubert Brown, Lee Boone, Howard Barlett	195?	Folk	field recording by Kenneth S. Goldstein	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Leroy Troy	1994	Folk	Old-Time Music on the Air	"The Death of John Henry"
Lesley Riddle	195?	Country	Close to Home: Old Time Music From Mike Seeger's Collection (1952-1967)	http://sunsite.unc.edu/john_henry/audio/riddle2.ram
Lilly Brothers & Don Stover	1964	Country	Early Recordings
Lily May Ledford Pennington	1972	Folk	field recording by William Havens, Don Santa-Emma and Dr. Frank Traficante	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Little Jimmy Dickens	1960	Country	Big Country Songs by Little Jimmy Dickens
Lloyd Green	1964	Rock	Big Steel Guitar
Lonnie Donegan	1955	Rock	Rock Island Line: The Singles Anthology 1955-1967
Lost Jim	2005	Folk	Too Poor To Paint, Too Proud To Whitewash	solo guitar instrumental; http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lostjim1
Lucius Smith with Sid Hemphill and his band	1942	Folk	field recording by Alan Lomax	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Luther Bryant	1969	Folk	field recording by Mike Seeger	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Lynwood Lunsford	2000	Folk	Pick Along	"John Henry Blues"; banjo/guitar instrumental
Mainer's Mountaineers	1941	Country	Good Ole' Mountain Music	check recording date; lyrics variant
Man Alive!	2001	Country	Ever What You Want
Mark Cosgrove	2005	Country	Sweet Reason	banjo instrumental
Mark Graham	2000	Folk	Southern Old-Time Harmonica	banjo/harmonica instrumental
Martin Young and Corbett Grigsby	1959	Folk	Mountain Music of Kentucky	guitar/spoon instrumental
Marty Brill	195?	Folk	The Roving Balladeer
Marty Stuart	1999	Country	The Pilgrim	"Mr. John Henry, The Steel Drivin' Man"; mandolin/banjo/fiddle instrumental
Mason O'Bavion	196?	Folk	Fonotone Records 1956-1969	"John Henry Take 1"; http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/17396 (at 2:33)
Memphis Slim	1960	Blues	Memphis Slim and the Honky-Tonk Sound - Memphis Slim and the Real Honky Tonk	http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=382
Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon	1960	Blues	Songs of Memphis Slim and "Wee Willie" Dixon	http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=227#
Merle Travis	1947	Country	Folk Songs of the Hills
Michael Cooney	1968	Folk	The Cheese Stands Along	http://www.folk-legacy.com/store/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=67
Mike & Peggy Seeger	1977	Folk	American Folksongs for Children
Mike Seeger	1966	Folk	Tipple, Loom & Rail	"Death of John Henry"
Mississippi Fred McDowell	1966	Blues	Long Way from Home	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54GNI2K3-ec&search=john henry
Moore & Napier	2004	Country	Long Journey Home	check recording date
Morgan Sexton	198?	Folk	Shady Grove
Moses Rascoe	1987	Blues	Blues
Mountain Ramblers	1959?	Blues	Sounds of the South	check recording date
Mrs. Winnie Prater	1937	Folk	field recording by Alan and Elizabeth Lomax	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Nashville Banjos	1999	Country	30 Banjo Classics	bluegrass instrumental; also "Nashville Guitars" and "Nasvhille Harmonicas"
Nashville Super Guitars	1995	Country	Country Hit Kit	guitar instrumental
Neal Hellman	1981	Folk	Appalachian Dulcimer
Negro Fife and Drum Bands	1995	Folk	Traveling Through the Jungle: Fife and Drum Band Music from the Deep South	fife instrumental solo; performer not named; check recording date
Odetta	1954	Blues	The Tin Angel
Odis Bird	1958	Folk	The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection	http://www.missouristate.edu/folksong/maxhunter/0161/index.html; about a white John Henry who killed a man, same melody; a capella
Ohop Valley Boys	2000	Bluegrass	Up all Night at Chilliwack	http://www.songbaby.com/cd/ohop?cdbaby=4326237c564766b12b8eb1272353058b
Ollie Gilbert	1970	Folk	The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection	http://www.missouristate.edu/folksong/maxhunter/1091/index.html; a capella
Oren Jenkins	1956	Country	American Banjo: Three Finger & Scruggs Style	banjo instrumental
Oscar Wright	1969	Folk	field recording by Eric Olsen and Malcolm Owen	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Paranoid Larry	2003	Folk	Paranoid Larry and His Imaginary Band	"John / Henry"; parody with lyrics about John Ashcroft and other John's and Henry's; http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/paranoidlarry
Pat Donohue and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band	2003	Folk	A Prairie Home Companion, January 18, 2003	http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/20030118/
Paul & Margie	1998	Folk	40 Most Popular American Folk Songs
Paul Clayton	1962	Folk	Dulcimer Songs and Solos	http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=2111#
Paul Lamb & the Kings Snakes	1998	Blues	John Henry Jumps In	"John Henry Jumps In"; harmonica instrumental
Paul Rishell & Annie Raines	1996	Blues	I Want You to Know	guitar/harmonica duet
Paul Robeson	194?	Vocal	Songs for Free Men 1940-1945
Paul Winter	1963	New Age	Jazz Meets the Bossa Nova/Jazz Meets the Folk Song	jazz instrumental
Pearl Elizabeth Trent Creed and Blanton Owen	1974	Folk	field recording by Blanton Owen	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Peg Leg Sam	1975	Blues	Joshua	solo vocal and harmonica
Pete Seeger	195?	Folk	American Favorite Ballads	song appears on several collections; http://www.peteseeger.net/PS-John%20Henry.mp3
Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee	1956	Folk	Washboard Band - Country Dance Music	harmonica/washboard instrumental; http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=171#
Peter Stanley	2000	Folk	Cabin on the Hill
Pilot Mountain Bobcats		Folk	Dance by the Light of the Moon	fiddle instrumental; http://www.bobvillemusic.com/store.htm
Pine Top Slim	195?	Blues	The Modern Downhome Blues Sessions, Vol. 4: Southern Country Blues Guitarists 1948-1952
Pink Anderson	1950	Blues	Gospel, Blues and Street Songs
Porter Wagoner	1963	Country	Porter Wagoner Show
Ralph Stanley	2002	Country	Ralph Stanley	"The Death of John Henry"
Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys	1973	Country	1971-1973	instrumental
Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys	1973	Country	1971-1973	with vocal; labelled as "John Henry," based on Uncle Dave Macon's "The Death of John Henry"
Ramblin' Jack Elliott	1956?	Folk	The Early Sessions	"The Death of John Henry"; Elliott also recorded this version of the song as "Ballad of John Henry"
Ramsey Lewis Trio	1958	Jazz	Down to Earth	jazz instrumental
Raymond Fairchild	197?	Country	31 Banjo Favorites, Vol. 2
Raymond Swinney	194?	Folk	Library of Congress Banjo Collection
Red Foley & His Crossroad Boys	195?	Country	Stay a Little Longer
Reese Crenshaw	1934	Folk	Field Recordings, Vol. 2: North & South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas (1926-1943)
Rich Amerson	1960	Folk	Negro Folk Msic of Alabama, Vol. 3: Rich Amerson -- 1	a capella; http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=881# ; check recording date
Richard Dyer-Bennet	1958	Folk	Dyer-Bennet, Vol. 5
Riley Puckett	2001	Country	Guitare Country: From Old Time to Jazz Times 1926-1950	check recording date
Roger McGuinn	1959	Rock	The Folk Den Project	http://ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden/php/music/Jhenry.mp3
Ronnie Hawkins	1960	Rock	Folk Ballads of Ronnie Hawkins
Roscoe Holcomb	1999	Country	Kentucky Old-Time Banjo	check recording date
Rufus Crisp	1946	Folk	field recording by Stuart Jamieson, Margot Mayo and Freyda Simon	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Rufus Quesenberry with Glenn Smith, Lynn Horton & Peter Hoover	1959	Folk	field recording by Peter Hoover	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Sampson Pittman	1938	Rock	The Devil Is Busy
Scott Vestal, Wayne Benson, Jeff Autry, Randy Kohrs, Mark Schatz and Ron Stewart	1999	Country	Bluegrass 2000	bluegress/fiddle instrumental
Scotty Anderson	2000	Country	Triple Stop	guitar instrumental; released 2001
Sherman Hammons and Mose Coffman	1971	Folk	field recording by Dwight Diller and Carl Fleischhauer	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Skinny McGee & his Mayhem Makers	2005	Rock	99 Years
Sleepy John Estes	2000	Blues	Blues Live
Smith Brown	1963	Folk	field recording by Peter Hoover	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Smoky Mountain Barnburners	2005	Folk	Smoky Mountain Barnburners	artists not named; bluegrass instrumental
Snakefarm	1999	Rock	Songs from My Funeral	reggae style; different melody
Snooks Eaglin	1958	Blues	Country Boy Down in New Orleans
Snuffy Jenkins	1957	Bluegrass	American Banjo - Tunes and Songs in Scruggs Style	banjo instrumental; http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=186
Sonny Terry	194?	Blues	The Blues Mountain Harmonica: 1938-1953
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	1990	Blues	California Blues
Sonny Terry and Bull City Red	1939	Jazz	From Spirituals to Swing: Carnegie Hall Concerts, 1938-1939	"New John Henry"; harmonica instrumental
Squatweiler	1999	Rock	Horsepower
Stefan Diestelmann	1994	Rock	Mylights
Stefan Grossman	1972	Folk	Black Melodies on a Clear Afternoon
Stella Kimball with Taylor Kimball and Ivey Kimball	1973	Folk	field recording by Tom Carter and Blanton Owen	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Steve Guyger	1997	Blues	Last Train to Dover	harmonica instrumenal
Steve Martin	1981	Comedy	The Steve Martin Brothers	banjo instrumental
Stew Moss	2003	Rock	Plum	http://weedtracks.com/shnyfile/download/101206.wma
Stones River Ranch Boys	2002	Country	Down Home Instrumentals, Vol. 1	bluegrass instrumental
Stringband	1977		The Indispensable Stringband 1972-2002	"Mail Sortin' Man" (parody)
Stringbean	1963	Country	Salute to Uncle Dave Macon
Stuart Elius Carrico	1974	Folk	field recording by Blanton Owen	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Tangle Eye	2004	Folk	Alan Lomax's Southern Journey Remixed	"John Henry's Blues"; vocal track is by Ed Lewis in 1959 (see separate listing)
Tennessee Ernie Ford	195?	Country	Real Thing
Terry Gibbs	1963	Jazz	Hootenanny My Way
The Bailey Brothers	2001	Country	Bluegrass Bonanza
The Bluegrass Band	1990	Country	Once Again, from the Top, Vol. 1
The Bogtrotters	1968	Folk	The Original Bogtrotters
The Bray Brothers with Red Cravens	1962	Country	Prairie Bluegrass	bluegrass instrumental
The Clumsy Lovers	2002	Rock	Still Clumsy After All These Years
The Critton Hollow String Band	1979	Folk	Poor Boy
The Crook Brothers	1962	Country	Opry Old Timers
The Del McCoury Band	1997	Country	The Legend Lives On: A Tribute to Bill Monroe
The Double Decker String Band	1981	Folk	Sentimental Songs and Old Time Melodies
The Easy Riders	195?	Folk	Marianne
The Folksmiths	1958	Folk	We've Got Some Singing to Do	http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=286#
The Heartbeats	1991	Folk	Living Black and White
The Johnson Mountain Boys	2003	Folk	Telluride Bluegrass Festival: Reflections, Vol. 1
The Kentucky Colonels	1964	Country	Appalachian Swing!	bluegrass instrumental
The Limeliters	1982	Vocal	Alive in Concert, Vol. 1	also performed 6/15/63, on "Hootenanny" ABC TV show
The Little Grascals	2002	Bluegrass	Bluegrass: Nashville's Superpickers	bluegrass instrumental
The London Symphony Orchestra	1965	Soundtrack	He Got Game: Motion Picture Soundtrack	Aaron Copeland version
The Maddox Brothers & Rose	1953	Country	Live on the Radio: Excerpts from 1953 Radio Broadcasts
The Mammals	2004	Folk	Rock That Babe
The New Christy Minstrels	1964	Folk	Tell Tales! Legends and Nonsense/Land of Giants	"John Henry and the Steam Drill"
The New Lost City Ramblers	1963	Folk	The New Lost City Ramblers - Volume 5	http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=233#
The Old Hollow String Band	1986	Folk	Old Time Music From North Carolina	http://www.flyincloudrecords.com/cartease/item-detail.cfm?storeid=1&ID=FC001
The Osborne Brothers	1962	Country	Bluegrass Instrumentals	"John Henry Blues"
The Paul Winter Jazz Sextet	1964	Folk	Hootenanny (TV show, ABC, 3/28/64)
The Rappin' Trucker	2002	Country	Buck Truck	"John Henry Was a Trucker"
The Round Peak Band	1992	Country	Marimac Anthology
The Settlers	1999	Country	Travelin' Lite	check recording date
The Skillet-Lickers	1927	Folk	The Skillet-Lickets Vol. 1 (1926-1927)
The Smothers Brothers	1964	Comedy	Think Ethnic!	http://www.ibiblio.org/john_henry/The_Saga_of_John_Henry.mp3
The Stanley Brothers	1956	Country	Evening Long Ago: Live 1956	guitar/banjo instrumental
The Stanley Brothers	195?	Country	Shadows of the Past	with vocal
The Tarriers	1963	Folk	Hootenanny (TV show, ABC, 6/8/63)
The Two Poor Boys (Joe Evans & Arthur McLain)	1927?	Blues	The Two Poor Boys: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order	"John Henry Blues"
The Virginia Mountain Boys	1980	Folk	Old Time Bluegrass from Grayson and Carroll Counties, Virginia: Vol. 3	http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=610
The Williamson Brothers & Curry	1927	Folk	Anthology of American Folk Music	"Gonna Die With My Hammer in My Hands"; http://sunsite.unc.edu/john_henry/audio/wc2.ram
Tim Bing	1989	Folk	Banjo Legacy: Traditional Music of West Virginia	"John Henry Blues"
Tom Adams	2001	Country	Adams County Banjo	banjo instrumental
Tom Adams & Michael Cleveland	2002	Country	Live at the Ragged Edge	banjo and fiddle instrumental; released 2004
Tom Paley	1991	Folk	Old Tom Moore and More	http://www.wirz.de/music/paleyfrm.htm
Tom T. Hall	1972	Country	Tom T. Hall...The Storyteller	"More About John Henry"
Tommy Jarrell	1998	Folk	North Carolina Banjo Collection	check recording date; banjo instrumental; http://sunsite.unc.edu/john_henry/audio/jarrell4.ram
Tony Furtado	1989	Country	Swamped	bluegrass instrumental; http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000058UMY?v=glance&st=digital-music
Tony Furtado & Dick Powell	1999	Country	Tony Furtado & Dick Powell	"Angeline the Baker / John Henry"; instrumental; http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000573FB?v=glance&st=digital-music
Trini Lopez	2000	Vocal	Platinum Series	check recording date
Twenty Two	1948	Folk	Prison Songs, Vol. 2: Don'tcha Hear Poor Mother Calling	a capella; lyrics variant; http://sunsite.unc.edu/john_henry/audio/PrisonHenry.ram
Uncle Dave Macon	192?	Folk	Keep My Skillet Good & Greasy	"Death of John Henry (Steel Driving Man)" variant
Uncle Dave Macon with Sam McGee	1926	Folk	Keep My Skillet Good & Greasy	"Death of John Henry (Steel Driving Man)" variant; http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20020902.me.johnhenry.death.ram
Uncle Henry's Favorites	1999	Folk	A Prairie Home Companion, April 17, 1999	http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/19990417/
Valentine Pringle	2001	Folk	Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music	check recording date
Van Morrison	198?	Rock	The Philosopher's Stone	released 1998; http://www.ibiblio.org/john_henry/vanmorrisonjohnhenry.mp3
Virgil Perkins and Jack Sims	1957	Folk	Folk Music U.S.A.: Vol. 1	guitar/kazoo instrumental; http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=914#
W.E. Greiner Academy Choir	2005	Children's	Spotlight on Music: Grade 5 Disc 8
Wade Ward with Fields Ward, Dr. W.P. Davis, and the Bogtrotters string band	1937	Folk	field recording by John A. Lomax	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Wallace Swann and his Cherokee String Band	193?	Folk	Anglo-American Shanties, Lyric Songs, Dance Tunes and Spirituals	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/folkcat.html
Walt Brown	196?		The Walt Brown Show with Bill Collins
Wayne Erbsen	196?	Folk	Southern Mountain Classics	check date; different melody?
Willard Clower with Ivan Weddle, George Slusher, Freeman Slusher and Glenn Wilson	1973	Folk	field recording by Tom Carter	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
William C. Bailey	1968	Folk	field recording by Walter M. Michael	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
William Francis & Richard Sowell	1927	Blues	The Great Harp Players (1927-1936)	"John Henry Blues"; harmonica/guitar instrumental
Willie Dodson	1955	Folk	Negro Folk Music of Alabama, Vol. 6: Ring Game Songs and Others	http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=884
Willie Hamilton	1979	Folk	Hand-Me-Down Music: Old Songs, Old Friends - Vol. 1 Traditional Music of Union County, North Carolina	guitar instrumental; http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=2004#; check recording date
Willie P. Bennett	1979		Blackie and the Rodeo King	"John Henry The Gambler"; http://www.williepbennett.com/blackie.html
Winnie Winston	1964	Folk	Old-Time Banjo Project
Wise Jones	1958	Folk	The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection	http://www.missouristate.edu/folksong/maxhunter/0006/index.html; minor key
Woody Guthrie with Cisco Houston	1944	Folk	Forever Gold	available on many collections; http://sunsite.unc.edu/john_henry/audio/guthrie2.ram
Worley Gardner	197?	Folk	Mountain Melodies: Songs of the Appalachians
Worley Gene Hash	1974	Folk	field recording by Blanton Owen	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Banjo.html
Yoshihiro Arita	1990	Country	Whale Dance	released 1996
	1988	Folk	Songs of the Working People From the American Revolution to the Civil War
	1993	Country	Bluegrass Music from the Appalachian Mountains	check artists
	1993	Country	Way Out West	electric guitar intrumental
	1997	Country	The Sensational Sounds of Country	electric guitar intrumental
	1999	Country	Diary of a Fiddler
	2003	Rock	American Heritage Music Set	check artists
	2003	Children's	Train Songs
	2005	Country	Bluegrass Karaoke	check artists