Going Down The Road Feeling Bad

“Going Down The Road Feeling Bad” (also known as the “Lonesome Road Blues”) is a traditional American folk song, “a white blues of universal appeal and uncertain origin”.The song was recorded by many artists through the years. The first known recording is from 1923 by Henry Whitter, an Appalachian singer,[2][3] as “Lonesome Road Blues”. The earliest versions of the lyrics are from the perspective of an inmate in prison with the refrain, “I’m down in that jail on my knees” and a reference to eating “corn bread and beans.”[4] The song has been recorded by many artists such as Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Skeeter Davis, Elizabeth Cotten, and the Grateful Dead, and the song is featured in To Bonnie from Delaney, “Mountain Jam”, Born and Raised World Tour, The Grapes of Wrath, and Lucky Stars. Others who recorded it include Cliff Carlisle (also as “Down In abeth Cotten and the Grateful Dead, Delaney and Bonnie, Canned Heat and Dillard Chandler.The Jail On My Knees”), Woody Guthrie (also as “Blowin’ Down This Road” or “I Ain’t Gonna Be Treated This Way”), Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, Roy Hall, Eliz