Mule Skinner Blues

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There are about a million versions of Mule Skinner Blues, but the seven artists below created the most distinctive and authoritative versions I've heard.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Dolly Parton	2
The Cramps	2
The Fendermen	2
other: _________________	2
Jerry Reed	1
Jimmy Rodgers	1
Merle Haggard	1
Frankie Laine	0

― ＴＥＥＮＡＧＥＤＩＡＬＥＣＴＩＣＳ (libcrypt), Friday, 19 December 2008 07:23 (seventeen years ago)

Jose Feliciano and Bill Monroe should be on that list.

― ＴＥＥＮＡＧＥＤＩＡＬＥＣＴＩＣＳ (libcrypt), Friday, 19 December 2008 07:27 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, but the Fendermen's version is the one: drum beats conjured out of two guitars, the only successful yodeling in a rock song.

― bendy, Friday, 19 December 2008 12:12 (seventeen years ago)

Apart from The Girls from the Golden West singing Will There Be Any Yodeling in Heaven, of course? I can't vote in this, not having heard the options, but I did used to go crazy for Rambling Jack Eliot's Mule Skinner Blues and the yodel in that one.

― GamalielRatsey, Friday, 19 December 2008 12:16 (seventeen years ago)

1. Jimmie
2. Bill Monroe
3. Muleskinner (the progressive bluegrass band from the mid 70s.)

― QuantumNoise, Friday, 19 December 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, but the Fendermen's version is the one: drum beats conjured out of two guitars, the only successful yodeling in a rock song.

See Muleskinner's version: droning glam/bluegrass hybrid featuring Clarence White, David Grisman, Bill Keith, Richard Greene and vocalist Peter Rowan, who is a total badass when it comes to yodeling.

― QuantumNoise, Friday, 19 December 2008 14:57 (seventeen years ago)

what about Guthrie?

― ichard Thompson (Hurting 2), Friday, 19 December 2008 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

Van Morrison,,,,,

― Lincolnshire, Friday, 19 December 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

I always thought Roy acuff's was kind of the definitive grand ol opry hit version --- definitely more primary than any of these except jimmie---- and he sings the shit out of it

― reacher, Friday, 19 December 2008 23:57 (seventeen years ago)

opryland rip :-(

― STR8 FONKY HOMMIE (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 19 December 2008 23:59 (seventeen years ago)

Ok so wikipedia suggests it was jimmie Rodgers hit and bill Monroe kinda revved it up for the opry stage -- roys is good though

― reacher, Saturday, 20 December 2008 00:02 (seventeen years ago)

I'm trying to figure out the tree of influences on MSB versions. Obviously, the Fendermen version is pivotal: The Cramps and José Feliciano versions are obviously version of the Fendermen's. But did the Fendermen crib off of Frankie Laine? I'm thinking that there's a pop/country split on this song that happened in the 50s: Jerry Reed, Merle, and Dolly being on the country side and post-Laine versions on the pop side. Also, where does Slint figure in here?

― ＴＥＥＮＡＧＥＤＩＡＬＥＣＴＩＣＳ (libcrypt), Saturday, 20 December 2008 21:01 (seventeen years ago)

Research material.

― ＴＥＥＮＡＧＥＤＩＡＬＥＣＴＩＣＳ (libcrypt), Saturday, 20 December 2008 22:31 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah.

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than Your MIDNITE POWERTOOLS (Bimble), Saturday, 20 December 2008 22:34 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 1 January 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

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