DESCRIPTION:
From '' Who's That Knocking? And Other Bluegrass Music ''
Label: Verve Folkways ‎– FVS 9005
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, electronic stereo
Country: US
Released: 1965

Tracklist
A1 Walkin' In My Sleep
A2 Can't You Hear Me Calling
A3 Darling Nellie Across The Sea
A4 Difficult Run
A5 Coal Miner's Blues
A6 Gabriel's Call
A7 Just Another Broken Heart
A8 Take Me Back To Tulsa
B1 Who's That Knocking?
B2 Cowboy Jim
B3 Long Black Veil
B4 Lee Highway Blues
B5 Lover's Return
B6 Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
B7 I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling

Guitar, Vocals – Alice Gerrard
Bass, Vocals – Hazel Dickens
Fiddle – Chubby Wise
Mandolin – David Grisman
Banjo – Lamar Grier

Illustration – Irwin Rosenhouse
Recorded By, Edited By – Peter K. Siegel

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"Long Black Veil" is a 1959 country ballad, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell.

Recorded in Nashville in 1959 by Lefty Frizzell and produced by Don Law, the single reached No. 6 on Billboard Hot C&W Sides chart.
In the process, the song became Frizzell's best-performing single in five years.

Wilkin played piano on the original recording by Frizzell.

Cover versions

Sammi Smith's version reached No. 26 on country hits in 1974.

Johnny Cash performed the song on the first episode of The Johnny Cash Show (TV series) in 1969, duetting with Joni Mitchell.

The song has also appeared on landmark albums by Johnny Cash and The Band in 1968, and charted again in 1999 with the Dave Matthews Band, who performed the song live with Emmylou Harris at a Johnny Cash tribute concert.

Early in her career, Joan Baez incorporated the song into her live repertoire, and recorded it twice..

The song appears on David Allan Coe's 1984 compilation 20 Greatest Hits and on Marianne Faithfull's Rich Kid Blues, recorded in 1971 but shelved until 1985.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds recorded a version for the 1986 covers album Kicking Against the Pricks.

The song was performed by Bruce Springsteen on his 2006 Seeger Sessions Band Tour.

The chorus is frequently sung by Bruce Hornsby during live performances of his song "White Wheeled Limousine", including the version on the retrospective box set Intersections (1985-2005).

Mick Jagger recorded a version with The Chieftains for that group's 1995 album of the same name.

Mike Ness, principal songwriter and guitarist of punk-rock band Social Distortion, covered the song on his 1999 debut solo album Cheating at Solitaire.

Jerry Garcia, David Grisman and Tony Rice cover this song on the 2000 Pizza Tapes recordings.

It has been covered by Harry Manx, including a version on the compilation Johnny's Blues: A Tribute to Johnny Cash, and in October 2009, by Rosanne Cash on her album The List.

A version by Scottish rock band Nazareth was never released on an album, but is played at live concerts

On the 2011 album Rancho Alto by Jason Boland & the Stragglers, the song "False Accuser's Lament" is a follow up to "Long Black Veil'", describing a witness's view of the events and the role that he played.

Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead performed the song several times, with a variety of musicians, in his rotating line-ups of Phil Lesh and Friends at his venue Terrapin Crossroads.

Jamey Johnson has covered the song on tour. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club occasionally perform the song during their live shows.

The Black Crowes have covered the song, for instance during their December 17, 2010 performance at The Fillmore in San Francisco.

Other versions

1960 Carl Mann
1960 The Country Gentlemen
1964 Jerry & Sara
1964 Johnny Williams and The Jokers
1968 The Move
1968 The Wolfe Tones
1969 The Byrds
1969 The Small Faces
1970 Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys
1971 Hank Williams, Jr.
1971 Marianne Faithfull
1980 Jimmy "Orion" Ellis
1983 Zelenáči (Greenhorns) as "Dlouhý černý závoj"
1985 Baby Opaque
1986 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
1988 The Proclaimers
1992 Michael Nesmith
1993 Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Tony Rice
1995 Don Walser
1995 Don Williams
1997 Sally Timms
2002 Daryle Singletary
2002 Jason & the Scorchers
2002 Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
2002 Dave Matthews Band
2003 Deadstring Brothers
2003 Jon Langford and The Pine Valley Cosmanauts
2003 Rob Coffinshaker
2003 Harry Manx
2005 Tim O'Brien
2005 Bruce Hornsby
2005 Charming Hostess
2006 Crooked Fingers
2006 Richard Hawley
2007 Stoney LaRue
2007 David Gra
2007 Professor Louis and the Crowmatix
2007 Matt Andersen
2008 Diamanda Galás
2009 Aunt Martha
2009 Razzy Bailey (with Johnny Cash)
2009 Rosanne Cash (Feat. Jeff Tweedy)
2009 Caroline Herring
2012 Iron & Wine
2014 Sarah Jackson
2014 Carter Hulsey
2014 We Banjo 3
The Stanley Brothers
Bobby Bare
Chris Ledoux
Banks & Shane
[[Bob Dylan] one 1997 performance available on various bootlegs]
Nazareth
Jimmy Kelly