Busted (Harlan Howard song)

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Cover versions

• Johnny Cash, with the Carter Family, reached #13 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart in 1963.
• Ray Charles reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963. 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.
• 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, but the overall theme is the same.
• Charley Pride covered it on Country Charley Pride. The album was released in 1966 on the RCA label.
• 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.
• Hazel Dickens covered it on her 1980 Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People album.
• Wanda Jackson covered it on her album The Party Ain't Over.
• 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.
• Ray Lynam covered it as a single that charted on the Irish Charts in 1970.
• Brazilian band Matanza covered it on Música para Beber e Brigar in 2003.