Busted (Johnny Cash song)
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
(Redirected from Busted (Harlan Howard song))
| "Busted" | |
|---|---|
| Song |
"Busted" is a song covered by Johnny Cash (with The Carter Family) for Cash's 1963 album Blood, Sweat and Tears. "Busted" was written by Harlan Howard in 1962, and has been covered by several notable artists, including Ray Charles (also in 1963) and Patty Loveless (2009).
The song is about a dirt-poor farmer struggling to support his family, bemoaning a stack of bills, his family's needs, animals that won't produce and land that is barren. He even tries to ask his brother for assistance, but his brother was actually going to come to him for help. Finally, he admits he's going to pack up his family and leave to find a better life.
Cover versions
| "Busted" | |
|---|---|
| File:Ray Charles busted single.jpg | |
| Single by Ray Charles | |
| from the album Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul | |
| Released | 1963 |
| Label | ABC-Paramount |
| Writer(s) | Harlan Howard |
- Johnny Cash, with the Carter Family, reached #13 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart in 1963.[1]
- Ray Charles reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963.[2] This was from his album Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul. A live version with Willie Nelson was included in Charles' 2005 duets album Genius & Friends.
- Nazareth covered it on Expect No Mercy in 1977.
- John Conlee reached #6 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart in 1982.[3]
- Patty Loveless released a version in 2009 from her studio album Mountain Soul II. This version contains a lyrical change which alters the occupation of the narrator from a cotton farmer to a miner ("Cotton is down to a quarter a pound" is replaced with "We've had a hard time since they closed down the mine"), but the overall theme is the same.
- Chris LeDoux covered it on Used to Want to be a Cowboy in 1991.
- Green On Red covered it on The BBC Sessions released in 2007.
- Wanda Jackson covered it on her album The Party Ain't Over (2011).
- The Waldos covered it on their album Rent Party in 1994.
- Andre Williams covered it on his album Red Dirt in 1999.
- Tim O'Brien covered it on his album Cornbread Nation in 2005.
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Cite error: Invalid <references> tag; parameter "group" is allowed only.
<references />, or <references group="..." />External links
- Harlan Howard obituaries: New York Times and bmi.com
- "Busted" at Allmusic.com
- Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
| Studio albums |
|
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Posthumous studio creations |
|||||||
| Live albums |
|
||||||
| Notable compilations |
|
||||||
| Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 Singles |
|||||||
| Other Billboard Charts #1 singles |
|||||||
| Grammy Awarded Works (not included above) |
|||||||
| See also | |||||||
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
 |
This 1960s country song-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits, p.68. ISBN 0-8230-7632-6.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2000). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, p.121. ISBN 0-8230-7690-3.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits, p.78. ISBN 0-8230-7632-6.
Categories:
- Pages with reference errors
- Articles which use infobox templates with no data rows
- Pages using infobox song with unknown parameters
- Pages with broken file links
- 1962 songs
- 1963 singles
- 1982 singles
- Ray Charles songs
- Johnny Cash songs
- Nazareth (band) songs
- John Conlee songs
- Chris LeDoux songs
- Patty Loveless songs
- Wanda Jackson songs
- Songs written by Harlan Howard
- 1960s country song stubs
