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"Man of Constant Sorrow" (also known as "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow") is a traditional American folk song first published by Dick Burnett, a partially blind fiddler from Kentucky. It was titled "Farewell Song" in a songbook by Burnett dated to around 1913. A version recorded by Emry Arthur in 1928 gave the song its current titles.
guitar: fiddle — = Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow by Carter Family and others 1926/11 "I'll Be with You When the Roses Bloom Again" Co 15122-D: Dick, Leonard: guitar: fiddle — 1926/11 "A Short Life of Trouble" Co 15133-D: Dick: banjo: fiddle — popularized later by Blue Sky Boys, Flatt and Scruggs, and Doc Watson: 1926/11 "Pearl Bryan ...
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His play on "Man of Constant Sorrow" suggests he traveled extensively, possibly through Appalachia. He is known for recording songs about being an outlaw, despite being legally blind. [ 5 ] Delta Blind Billy is not to be confused with the earlier musician, Blind Billy, who was a former slave.
The song is a rewrite of "Man of Constant Sorrow" that she remembered from a hillbilly record (likely recorded by Emry Arthur in 1928) she had heard some years before in the mountains, but the lyrics she wrote was considerably different from the original after the first verse. [7] [8]
One of Emry's solos was the first recording of "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow," which was released on 78-rpm record in 1928. Vocalion was impressed by good sales, particularly of the religious sides, and by the fact that Emry was Southern singer living conveniently in the North, so he was invited back to record frequently through 1928 and 1929.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002, the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (for singer Dan Tyminski, whose voice overdubbed George Clooney's in the film on "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's Pat Enright), and the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal ...
Books don't indicate that he recorded a different song, but that it's the old folk song - e.g. in this early stages of his career, Jennings did such folk chestnuts as "The House of the Rising Sun" and "I'm A Man of Constant Sorrow" Different people just do different things with some of these old songs.