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Ain't No More Cane
Traditional prison work song of the Southern United States
"Ain't No More Cane on This Brazos" is a traditional prison work song of the Southern United States. The title refers to work assigned to prisoners sentenced to hard labor in Texas.
Aint No More Cane Very many thanks Grant for your kind words and help. References [ edit ]. Live at Watkins Glen liner. Dylan was rethinking the direction of his life while recovering from a sense of having been exploited.The labor involved cutting sugar cane along the banks of the Brazos River, where many of the state's prison farms were located in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
It has been recorded by Alan Lomax on his recording Texas Folk Songs Sung by Alan Lomax as "Ain't No More Cane on This Brazis", Odetta, Lonnie Donegan, the Limeliters on their album 14 14K Folksongs (), Son Volt on the album A Retrospective: , and The Band on the album Across the Great Divide.
Bob Dylan also performed the song live in the early s[1] and his version is on multiple bootleg recordings taken from The Gaslight Cafe. An extensive set of lyrics to the song, as sung by inmates of Central State Farm near Houston, Texas, appears in folklorist John Lomax's book American Ballads and Folk Songs, originally published in Lomax collected another version of the song in a recording of a performance by Ernest Williams and James (Iron Head) Baker; the recording appears on the Document Records album Field Recordings, Vol.
6: Texas ().
The song is sometimes attributed to Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly), but a recording of him singing the song is obscure or non-existent. A song titled "Ain't No More Cane on this Brazos" does not appear in the extensive discography of Leadbelly recordings contained in Charles Wolfe and Kip Lornell's book The Life and Legend of Leadbelly.
Alan Lomax suggests, in the notes for his recording, another source from the Texas prison community. Possibly the song became associated with Leadbelly through his various recordings of another Texas prison song titled "Go Down, Ol' Hannah" which shares some verses with "Ain't No More Cane on this Brazos".
In , Band of Heathens with their distinctive arrangement included it on their Live at Momo's album.
In Lyle Lovett released two versions of the tune on his album It's Not Big, It's Large.
All American Boy Retrieved November 26, Retrieved November 24, That is lived life — not invented poetry for an audience. Marcus, GreilOn February 16, , Lovett and John Hiatt performed the song live at the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston, New York, along with The Band's Garth Hudson. On February 14, , Lovett also performed this song with friend Robert Earl Keen at Rudder Auditorium on the campus of their Alma mater, Texas A&M University.[citation needed]
"Ain't No More Cane" is featured in the film Festival Express, where Rick Danko, Janis Joplin, John "Marmaduke" Dawson, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and various other musicians drunkenly sing it while on the train going to the next concert on the tour.
The song, as "No More Cane on the Brazos", was also covered by the singer Ian Gillan of Deep Purple fame for his solo-album Naked Thunder. The Chad Mitchell Trio recorded the song on their album Singin' our Mind. Other covers include The Black Crowes.
Bob dylan im not there basement tapes According to Fraboni, four new songs by the Band were also recorded in preparation for the album's official release, one of which, a cover of Chuck Berry 's "Going Back to Memphis", did not end up being included. See also [ edit ]. As a sudden, abrupt moment when his wheel really did explode. Sadly, any version of the lyrics that you find written down is an approximation, because there is nothing to guide us on the official Bob Dylan site, and no second or third recording to help us compare the more confusing or downright incomprehensible moments in the song.Chris Smither also covered "No More Cane on the Brazos" on his CD "Happier Blue". Bill Staines recorded the song on his album Miles. It was also covered by Lonnie Donnegan in and by Canadian band Crowbar on Larger than Life (And Live'r than You've Ever Been) (, Daffodil 2-SBA) (recorded in concert at Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
A version of this song is also recorded by The Wood Brothers on their live album Live Vol.2 Nail & Tooth. The song's lyric "Captain don't you do me like you done poor old Shine" was the inspiration for Poor Old Shine, the previous band name for the band Parsonsfield.
See full list on en.wikipedia.org Rollins describes this as a song which Dylan begins to teach the Band, but never completes. Billboard Books. New English Library. Clarence Williams.The song has also been covered by the band The Magpie Salute, consisting of former Black Crowes members Rich Robinson, Marc Ford, and Sven Pipien. It can be found on their mostly live debut album, "The Magpie Salute".
Lyrics
The lyrics to The Band's version, which are often attributed to Leadbelly, are as follows:[2]
- Ain't no more cane on the Brazos
- It's all been ground down to molasses
- You shoulda been on the river in
- They were driving the women just like they drove the men.
- Go down Old Hannah, don'cha rise no more
- Don't you rise up til Judgement Day's for sure
- Ain't no more cane on the Brazos
- It's all been ground down to molasses
- Captain don't you do me like you done poor old Shine
- Well ya drove that bully til he went stone blind
- Wake up on a lifetime, hold up your own head
- Well you may get a pardon and then you might drop dead
- Ain't no more cane on the Brazos
- It's all been ground down to molasses.
A version The Band performed with Bob Dylan on the Basement Tapes includes the following as a second verse:
- Shoulda been on the river in nineteen and four
- They were finding the dead bodies in every single door.