Recording: John Henry

Performed by

Michael Cooney

First release

On Audio album Michael Cooney or "The Cheese Stands Alone" (1968)

Comments

Album title as it appears on LP sleeve.

Rating

Song info

Song

John Henry

Written by

[Anonymous Author/Composer]

Language

English

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	John Henry	Henry Thomas	1927
2	John Henry (The Steel Driving Man)	Furry Lewis	1929
3	John Henry Blues	The Two Poor Boys	1931
4	John Henry	Deford Bailey	1932
5	John Henry	Josh White	1942
6	John Henry	Lead Belly accompanied by Sonny Terry	1943
7	John Henry	Joshua White	1944
8	John Henry	Merle Travis	1947
9	John Henry	Salty Holmes and His Brown County Boys	February 21, 1948
10	John Henry	Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra	1950
11	John Henry	Hank Thompson	July 1953
12	John Henry	Odetta	1954
13	John Henry	Harry Belafonte	1954
14	John Henry (The Steel Driving Man)	Ed McCurdy	1955
15	John Henry	"Tennessee" Ernie Ford	March 5, 1956
16	John Henry	Marty Brill	1956
17	John Henry	Washboard Band	1956
18	John Henry	John Jacob Niles	1956
19	John Henry	Pink Anderson	1956
20	John Henry	Jack Elliott	1957
21	John Henry	Frances Faye	1957
22	John Henry	Bob Gibson	1957
23	John Henry	Peter Seeger and His Five String Banjo	1957
24	John Henry	Richard Dyer-Bennet	1958
25	John Henry	Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry	1958
26	John Henry	Alex Campbell	1958
27	John Henry	John Fahey	1959
28	John Henry	Ramsey Lewis Trio	1959
29	John Henry	Dave Van Ronk	1959
30	John Henry	Duane Eddy	July 1960
31	John Henry	Casey Anderson	1960
32	John Henry	"Little" Jimmy Dickens	1960
33	John Henry	The Limeliters	1960
34	John Henry	Snooks Eaglin	1960
35	John Henry	Ronnie Hawkins	1960
36	John Henry (The Steel Driving Man)	Buster Brown	1960
37	John Henry	Peter La Farge	June 1962
38	John Henry	Paul Clayton	1962
39	John Henry	Jimmie Rodgers [1]	January 1963
40	John Henry	The New Lost City Ramblers	1963
41	John Henry	The Kentucky Colonels	May 1964
42	John Henry	Shakey Horton	1964
43	John Henry	John Henry Barbee	1964
44	John Henry	Peg Leg Howell	1964
45	John Henry	John Jackson	1965
46	John Henry	Fred McDowell	1967
47	John Henry	The Bogtrotters	1968
48	John Henry	Michael Cooney	1968
49	John Henry	Pine Top Slim	1970
50	John Henry	Fred McDowell and Johnny Woods	1970
51	John Henry	Chicago String Band	1970
52	John Henry	Charlie McCoy	April 1973
53	John Henry	Henry Johnson	1973
54	John Henry	Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard	1973
55	John Henry	Terry Lightfoot and His Band	1974
56	John Henry	Blind Connie Williams	1974
57	John Henry	Eddie Lee Jones	1974
58	John Henry	Allison Mathis	1974
59	John Henry	Johnny Cash	1975
60	John Henry	Happy Traum	1975
61	John Henry	Gabriel Brown	1975
62	John Henry	Booker T. Sapps	1975
63	John Henry	Frank Hovington	1976
64	John Henry	I.D. Stamper	1977
65	John Henry	Elbert Freeman	1978
66	John Henry	John Davis	1979
67	John Henry	Jimmie Owens	1979
68	John Henry	Reese Crenshaw	1979
69	John Henry	David Grisman	1980
70	John Henry	John Lee Ziegler	1981
71	John Henry	Willie Wright	1983
72	John Henry	John Cephas & Phil Wiggins	1986
73	John Henry	Morgan Sexton	1989
74	John Henry	Archie Edwards	1989
75	John Henry	Harvey Reid	1991
76	John Henry	Sampson Pittman	1992
77	John Henry	Diamond Jim Greene	1995
78	John Henry	Carl Martin	1997
79	John Henry	Charlie Daniels	1997
80	John Henry	James "Bat" Robinson	1998
81	John Henry	Big Boy	1998
82	John Henry	The Settlers	May 18, 1999
83	John Henry	Snakefarm	1999
84	John Henry	Jesse Clarence Garmon	2006
85	John Henry	Lonzie Thomas	2006
86	John Henry	René Marie	March 8, 2011
87	John Henry	Hugh Laurie	April 29, 2011
88	John Henry	Andrew Calhoun	June 21, 2011