WILLIN'

Created on 21/05/2002
Latest update on 23/05/2024

Artist: Johnny Darrell
Author: Lowell George
Label: U.A.
Year: 1970

On his lp California Stop-Over (spring '70), making him the first to actually cut a Lowell George song. Too beautiful to let it wait. Johnny was also the first to record Dallas Frazier's Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp (see there).

Covers:

1970:

Byrds [saved-up for the Back Pages box set in '90]

1971:

Seatrain [also prior to Little Feat]

1971:

Little Feat [author version on debut album, recorded late in 1970 with Ry Cooder; new version on Sailin' Shoes in '72]

1973:

Gene Parsons

1974:

Linda Ronstadt

1975:

Commander Cody

1991:

Deacon Blue

1995:

David Allan Coe

2000:

Steve Earle [Transcendental Blues left-over, saved for Sidetracks cd]

2009:

Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs

2010:

Black Crowes

2017:

Gregg Allman

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