Big River
Johnny Cash wrote “Big River” and put out the earliest release of it on file, in 1964. Also recorded by Grateful Dead (released 1972), Billy Strings (released 2019) and Dead & Company (released 2016), among 640 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.
The Dead took Big River on the road, but it's Johnny Cash's song, written and first cut by the man himself. Start with his take, then notice how Rosanne Cash and Billy Strings kept it moving downstream.
▶Big RiverCredited writer: Johnny Cash.
Earliest release on file: this one, 1964.
- Grateful Dead1972
- Rosanne Cash1979
- Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash & Kris Kristofferson1985
- The Beat Farmers1987
- Willie Nelson1991
- MDC1993
- Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash1994
- Jonboy Langford and The Pine Valley Cosmonauts1994
- Eric Clapton1998
- Bill Chambers2006
- Dead & Company2016
- Billy Strings2019
640 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.
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