Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad

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Others

Henry Whittier, 1923
Ernest Stoneman and Kalee Brewer, 192?
Single (Leaving On The New River Train / Going Down The Road Feeling Bad), Crazy Hillbillies Band, 1934
Instrumental Music Of The Southern Appalachians, Various Artists (Mrs. Etta Baker), 1956
Raymond Johnson and the Birchfield Twins, 1956
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Music From The Ozarks, Various Artists, 1964
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My Heart's in the Country, Skeeter Davis, 1966
Camp Creek Boys, Camp Creek Boys, 1967
Cisco Houston Sings American Folk Songs , Cisco Houston, 1968
Music For Pickin' and Singing, Etta Baker, 196?
Foggy Mountain Banjo, Flatt and Scruggs and The Foggy Mountain Boys, 196?
At The Chicago Opera House, The New Wine Singers, 196?
Folk Banjo Styles, Eric Weissberg, 196?
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down, John Jackson, 1970
Wade Mainer and The Mainers Mountaineers, Wade Mainer and The Mainers Mountaineers, 1971
Motel Shot, Delaney & Bonnie, 1971
33 Years Of Pickin' and Pluckin', Snuffy Jenkins and Pappy Sherrill, 1971
DaCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters, DaCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters, 1972
Elementary Doctor Watson!, Doc Watson, 1972
Mountain Fiddler, Herbert Smoke, 1973
The Essential Doc Watson, Doc Watson, 1973
Woody's Story: As Told by Will Geer and Sung by Dick Wingfield, Will Geer and Dick Wingfield, 1973
Five String Banjo, Art Rosenbaum, 1974
Outback, Pine River Boys With Maybelle, 1974
Music From The Hills Of Caldwell County, Fred Reid, 1975
How To Play Clawhammer Banjo, Peter Feldmann, 1975
The End of an Old Song, Dillard Chandler, 1975
Original Rebel Soldier, Charlie Moore, 1976
Everhart, Bob Everhart, 1978
Dulcimer Instruction Album, Kevin Roth, 1979
Folk Festival Of The Smokies, Vol. 1, Various Artists (Blue Ridge Mountain Dancers), 197?
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Comin' Round The Mountain, Roy Caudhill, 197?
Round The Heart Of Old Galax, Vol. 1 Featuring Ernest Stoneman, Ernest Stoneman, 1980
Someday We'll Meet Again, Iron Mountain Band, 1981
Survivors, Johnny Cash, 1982
Down Yonder: Old Time String Band Music from Georgia, Gordon Tanner/John Patterson/Smokey Joe Miller, 1982
Folk Visions and Voices - Traditional Music and Song inNorthern Georgia, Vol. 2, Various Artists (George Childers), 1984
Old Time North Carolina Mountain Music, David and Billie Ray Johnson, 1985
Alive At Avoca, Bob Everhart with Bluegrass Playground, 1985
Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes, Elizabeth Cotten, 1989
Goin' Up Town - Old Time String Bands, Vol. 2, Various Artists (Cherokee Ramblers), 198?
Pickin' On Tommy's Porch, Tommy Jarrell, 198?
Treasures Untold, Doc Watson and Family, 1991
Blue Lightning, Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin, 1991
Round Peak Band, Round Peak Band, 1992
Pine Knots School Rowdies, The Kimble Family, 1992
Diamond Joe, Joe Val, 1995
Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston Vols 1 and 2, 1995
Behind the Barn, The Krüger Brothers, 1995
The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead, Various Artists, 1995
This Land is Your Land - The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1, Woody Guthrie, 1997
Elementary Doctor Watson! / Then and Now, Doc Watson, 1997
Times Ain't Like They Used To Be - Early American Rural Music - Vol. 2, Various Artists (Ernest Stoneman and Kalee Brewer), 1997
Pickin' On The Grateful Dead, Various Artists, 1997
North Carolina Banjo Collection, Various Artists (Etta Baker), 1998
Living Country Blues: An Anthology, Various Artists (Cephas and Wiggins), 1999
Tennessee Guitar Man, Chet Atkins, 19??
Sings Folk Songs, Big Bill Broonzy, 19??
Gathering On The Mountain: Live Part 3, Various Artists, 2000
Long Strange Trip: Swingin' and Pickin' on the Grateful Dead, Various Artists, 2001
Blue Ridge Legacy: The Alan Lomax Portait Series, Hobart Smith, 2001
Take Cover, Andrew Freeman, 2001
The Best of The 5-String Banjo, Various Artists (David West), 2002
Classic Old-Time Music From Smithsonian Folkways, Various Artists (Bill David and Billy Ray Johnson), 2003
Grateful Guitar, David Cullen, 2003
Classic Scotty, Scotty Anderson, 2003
American Folk and Country Music Festival, Various Artists (Cousin Emmy), 2003
Live at the Ragged Edge, Tom Adams and Michael Cleveland, 2004
Buffalo Skinners, Rob McNurlin, 2004
For Rex : The Black Tie Dye Ball, The Zen Tricksters and Special Guests, 2006
On The Road: June 26, 2006, San Diego, CA, String Cheese Incident, 2006
On The Road: July 2, 2006, Morrison, CO, String Cheese Incident, 2006
This World Is Not My Home, Nobody's Darlin', 2007
I'm Old Kentucky Bound, Charlie Monroe, 2007
Folk Roots: The Sound of Americana, Various Artists (Mrs Etta Baker), 2007
Great American Music Hall, SF, CA, March 14, 2008, Steve Kimock & Friends, 2008
The Roots of the Grateful Dead, Various Artists (Cliff Carlisle), 2008
At Fine Arts Center, UMass, Amherst, MA 11/16/07, The American Beauty Project, 2009
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Make It Your Sound, Make It Your Scene: Vanguard Records & The 1960s Musical Revolution, Various Artists (Watson Family), 2012
Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective, Duane Allman / Various Artists, 2013

Notes

Possibly derived from a southern slave song. Recorded in many different versions and with many different titles including;

Going Down This Road
I'm A-goin' Down This Road Feelin' Bad
Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way
Blowin' Down The Road
Lonesome Road Blues

It is one of the Dylan/Band Basement Tapes songs - as No Shoes On My Feet.

Occurs in John Ford's 1940 file The Grapes Of Wrath as Lonesome Road Blues.

An indication of the way verses were strung together to make songs in the oral tradition is given by a song recorded by Odum (1926), and given the title Goin' Down That Lonesome Road, which includes lyrics familiar in the Dead's repetoire from GDTRFB and In The Pines;

Goin' down dat lonesome road,
Oh, goin' down dat lonesome road,
An' I won't be treated this-a way.
Springs on my bed done broken down,
An' I ain't got nowhere to lay my head.

Now my mamma's dead an' my pappa, too
An' it left me alone with you.
An' you cause me to weep an' you cause me to moan,
An' you cause me to leave my happy home.

Longest train I ever saw
Was nineteen coaches long
Darlin' what have I done to you?
What makes you treat me so?
An' I won't be treated this way.