Joan Baez - Lonesome Road [HD]

Joan Baez sings 'Lonesome Road' from her 1961 Vanguard album 'Joan Baez, Vol. 2'. This song was written in the style of an African-American spiritual in 1927 by Gene Austen and Nathaniel Shilkret. It has been used in many movies and TV series and recorded by over 200 performers including Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Sam Cooke, and Stevie Wonder. The song has changed over time into a secular song of lost love and parting. Bob Dylan used the melody and some lines from it in his song 'Sugar Baby'. Dylan's song 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right' is very similar in spirit and in fact uses the "long lonesome road" phase which occurs often in 'Lonesome Road' in the line "I'm going down that long, lonesome road, babe" in 'Don't Think Twice...'. Because of the similarity, I used the images of the man and woman from the video for 'Don't Think Twice...' in this video assuming they were the same people in an alternate take on the situation. Note the menu of "cold cornbread" and "salty gravy" sets the song in an earlier and different time. And a bit of trivia - the main character in the film 'A Face In The Crowd' was called "Lonesome" Rhodes.