Willie Nelson - Dark As A Dungeon from Country Music

#willienelson #country #nashville
On his album Country Music, Willie Nelson goes back to his roots with a songbook of classic Americana. The album was recorded in Nashville, TN and produced by T Bone Burnett. Nelson wrote one track on the album, 'Man With The Blues' and, with T Bone Burnett, co-arranged three traditional songs, 'Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down', 'I Am A Pilgrim,' and 'Nobody's Fault But Mine.' The album also features many popular old-time/Bluegrass/Folk songs including Ernest Tubb's 'Seaman's Blues', Merle Travis' 'Dark As A Dungeon' and Doc Watson's 'Freight Train Boogie'. Willie Nelson collaborated with many musicians on Country Music including old-time banjo master Riley Baugus, double bassist Dennis Crouch, and T Bone himself, all musicians featured on Raising Sand, the 2009 Grammy Award-winning Album of the Year by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.

Man With The Blues 2:22
Seaman's Blues 3:22
Dark As A Dungeon 4:50
Gotta Walk Alone 2:14
Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down 3:20
My Baby's Gone 5:06
Freight Train Boogie 2:39
Satisfied Mind 3:52
You Done Me Wrong 3:13
Pistol Packin' Mama 2:36
Ocean Of Diamonds 3:37
Drinking Champagne 3:43
I Am A Pilgrim 4:52
House Of Gold 4:44
Nobody's Fault But Mine 4:27

[barbvince]

This here is soul soothing music. Thank ya’ll.❤

[kebobradley]

Just like all great artist, you feel the words, they're singing.Willie😉

[susanliebl]

Love the way the bass comes in after the carry the song deep in the mine...

[mickyog]

what a singer, what a guitarist, what a legend, what a song, , , , Willie come back to ireland again please...

[moragmacgregor]

Nobody could do it like Merle and yet...and yet Willie crawls inside a song like a skin walker. And then it's his song as much as the songwriter's.

[awesomealmighty]

Great song by our legendary singer, Willie. What an awesome voice and rendition! Thanks for uploading, Rounder Records.

[robertwaits]

Listened to quite a few versions of this song!Willie just catches it best!

[tankkasualty]

damn this does the original almost. Nice.

[garybryson]

I like Willie's version of the Merle Travis song.

[Wolfhoundersful]

Come all you young fellers, so young and so fine
And seek not your fortunes way down in the mine
It will form like a habit and seep in your soul
'Til the stream of your blood flows as black as the coal

It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines

There is many a man I have seen in my day
Who lived just to labor his whole life away
Like the fiend with his dope and the drunkard his wine
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine

It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines

I hope when I'm dead and the ages shall roll
That my body will blacken and turn into coal
I will look from the door of my heavenly home
And pity the miner a' diggin' my bones

It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines [2x]

[lukadebeljak]

Sheldon from the theory od the big bang Sang that song