Midnight Blues Dept. Man of Constant Sorrow is a traditional American folk song first recorded by Dick Burnett, a partially blind fiddler from Kentucky born in 1883. The song was originally recorded by Burnett as Farewell Song printed in a Richard Burnett songbook, about 1913. Some uncertainty exists as to whether Dick Burnett himself wrote the song. In an interview he gave toward the end of his life, Burnett indicated he could not really remember writing it: No, I think I must have got that ballad from somebody else... One claim is that this tune is at least 300 years old, was sung by the Mackin clan in 1888 in Ireland, and that when Cameron OMackin emigrated to Tennessee he brought the song with him and performed it.
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:36:53 +0000
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