Big River
Johnny Cash wrote “Big River” and released the earliest recording on file, in 1964. Also recorded by Grateful Dead (1972), Billy Strings (2019) and Dead & Company (2016), among 640 recordings 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 recording on file: this one, 1964.
- Grateful Dead1972
- Rosanne Cash1979
- Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash & Kris Kristofferson1985
- The Beat Farmers1987
- Willie, Waylon, Cash & Kris1991
- MDC1993
- Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash1994
- Jonboy Langford and The Pine Valley Cosmonauts1994
- Eric Clapton1998
- Bob Dylan2000
- Bill Chambers2006
- Dead & Company2016
640 recordings of “Big River” on MusicBrainz in all.
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